Gaby Blohm, a Post-Doctoral Associate, working in the Lednicky Lab at the University of Florida In 2016, during a zika virus disease outbreak in Venezuela, a young girl arrived at a hospital showing signs of a fever, rash, and joint pains. The patient’s plasma was sent to Colombia where serology tests…
Dr. John Lednicky gave a talk entitled “Collection of viable airborne viruses using air samplers” for the Biomedical Education Seminar Series of the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, on 7 February 2014. He discussed the concept of aeroplankton, technical difficulties regarding air sampling for viable airborne…
Dr. Joseph Bisesi, a post-doc in Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood’s lab recently published a manuscript in Environmental Science and Technology. Dr. Bisesi’s paper describes the toxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in the intestinal tract of fish as well as a new method for tracking and quantifying these materials in aquatic…
Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1, responsible for epidemic cholera, was accidentally introduced in Haiti in October, 2010. Since its introduction, more than 700,000 cases have been reported with over 8,000 deaths. V. cholerae is ubiquitous to aquatic environments, and humans acquire the infection upon consumption of food and/or water contaminated with…
EGH Associate Professor, Dr. Andy Kane, and EGH PhD student, Jessica Rowland, collected seafood consumption data from local seafood workers and consumers at the 2013 Florida Seafood Festival in Apalachicola Bay. Kane and his research crew set up an outreach tent and implemented seafood consumption surveys for the Healthy Gulf Healthy…
EGH Associate Professor, Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood, was recently selected as one of a handful of scientists to participate in UF’s Science Communications Academy. Dr. Sabo-Attwood and her colleagues will represent the university at the joint annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers and the Council for…
