Marco Salemi

Marco Salemi,

Holloway Professor In Experimental Pathology; EPI Associate Director For Research Initiatives

Department: MD-PATHOLOGY-GENERAL
Business Phone: (352) 273-9567
Business Email: salemi@pathology.ufl.edu

About Marco Salemi

I am full professor of Experimental Pathology at the Department of Pathology, Inmunology and Laboratory Medicine of UF College of Medicine, and Holloway Chair for research in Chronic and Infectious Diseases. As a Marie-Curie Fellow, at the Rega Institute (Leuven, Belgium), and post-doctoral scientist with Walter M. Fitch, at the University of California, Irvine (USA), I have been trained in the field of molecular evolution of viruses and phylogenetic analysis. During the last fifteen years, as UF faculty, my research interests have included molecular epidemiology, intra-host viral evolution, and the application of phylogenetic and population genetic methods to the study of human and simian pathogenic viruses (in particular HIV/SIV, HCV, HTLV and influenza). More recently, I have been applying the Bayesian coalescent framework to study molecular evolution and phylogeography of emergent and re-emergent bacterial pathogens, such as MRSA, Shigella, and Vibrio cholerae, using genome-wide SNPs. In addition, my laboratory has developed ad hoc protocols for the generation of high-throughput sequence data (including DNA sequencing, transcriptomics, and miRNA expression profiles) and droplet digital PCR quantitative analyses of viral and bacterial pathogens, as well as several automated bioinformatic and machine learning pipelines for the analysis of large sequence data sets (big data). Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, my group has been tracking the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Florida, and we are currently running a coronavirus genomic surveillance program sequencing hundreds of samples per week from infected patients in Florida and the Caribbean area.

Accomplishments

Exemplary Teacher Award
2020 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Term Professorship Award
2017 · University of Florida
Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors
2012 · University of Florida
Honor Aedificanti Award for his efforts in AIDS research
2008 · Kiwanis International Association
Distinguish International Educator Award
2004 · University of Florida
Award for best PhD thesis in Science
2002 · Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Best scientific paper originated in Ireland
2001 · Science Foundation Ireland

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2018
MAT7979 Advanced Research
2018
GMS7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation
2018
VME7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation
2014,2018
PHC7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation
2014-2017,2021-2024
GMS6234 Introduction to phylodynamics: A practical approach to molecular phylogenetics of pathogens
2011-2017
DEN6128 Host Defense
2010,2012-2013
GMS5905 Special Topics in Biomedical Sciences
2012
PHC7979 Advanced Research
2021-2022
GMS6140 Principles of Immunology
2024
PHC6722 Environmental and Global Health Research Methods Rotation
Teaching Philosophy
In my teaching, I put special emphasis in developing my students’ critical skills and their philosophical understanding of the scientific method. I teach primarily computational biology techniques to students in biomedical science programs. The main challenge is to augment the learner’s ability to distinguish between factual and inferred, as well as her understanding on how complex models, often described in rigorous mathematical terms, relate and can be helpful to the advancement of biological insights. Therefore, the first step is to engage students, asking them questions and assessing their level of mathematical understanding and the principles behind experimental research design and hypothesis testing. If necessary, I re-calibrate the rest of the course to fill knowledge gaps that may prevent students from effectively learning the course material. I believe that the discussion of a few well-crafted examples of how mathematical modeling can tackle real biological problems is an extremely effective teaching tool, and often helps to engage students’ attention. The challenge, of course, is to simplify the subject matter without loss in scientific rigor. To this end, I often consult with my colleagues, as well as students and postdocs in my own lab, asking their opinion and evaluation about my account of the topic I am about to teach. Every year, I carefully review students’ evaluations and use them as a guide for the next year teachings. Since the beginning, my efforts as an educator have also been having powerful and profound impact on my career as a research scientist. First of all, proper teaching requires a continuous effort to keep myself up to date with current literature, especially in the field of computational biology that has been growing exponentially over the past fifteen years, and where novel techniques, often leading to significant paradigm shifts, are published every few months. Second, Albert Einstein once said “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” My continuous effort to explain to students ultimately is a continuous effort to explain to myself and test the extent and limits of my own understanding. Finally, during my teachings at UF, as well as at international workshops (see section 2 and 4 below, for further details), I have met hundreds of students with very diverse scientific and cultural backgrounds that have greatly enriched me. Since 2010, I have been hosting every year at least one international trainee – often met at workshops where I taught – as short-term (6 months) or long-term (1 year) visiting scholar in my lab. I train visiting scholars and my own undergraduate and graduate students in experimental molecular biology techniques, experimental planning, and data analysis and interpretation. I meet regularly with each one of them (at least one hour/week) in my office and I interact with them in the lab and during the weekly lab meeting (usually 2 hours Thursday afternoon). Many of my international collaborations started through students initially met at workshops and subsequently hosted in my lab.

Research Profile

Through my research I have gained, over the past 25 years, broad knowledge of high-resolution phylogenetic and population genetic (phylodynamic) analysis applied to the study of viral and bacterial pathogens, with special emphasis on HIV/SIV. My contributions to the field of viral and bacterial evolution and molecular epidemiology have resulted so far in more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals including Nature, Science and PNAS. My published work has been cited over 10,000 times, with an h-index of 49, and an i10-index of 149 (http://scholar.google.com). I am currently involved (as PI and co-Investigator) in several NIH R01 projects focusing on HIV/SIV pathogenesis, neuroAIDS, molecular epidemiology pathogens (HIV, cholera, SARS-CoV-2), and development of artificial intelligence methods to forecast epidemic spread. My lab is particularly involved in the development of novel bioinformatic tools to monitor the HIV and SARS-CoV-2 epidemics in Florida, as well as design public health intervention strategies. In particular, we have been developing novel phylogenetic algorithms for the analysis of next generation sequence data of both viral and bacterial pathogens, including genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). I have extensive national and international teaching experience in the field of phylogenetics: I have been the teacher/co-organizer of the international workshop on viral evolution and molecular epidemiology since 1997, and I am editor of two of the main textbooks in applied phylogenetic inference (Salemi, Vandamme, The Phylogenetic Handbook – A Practical Approach to DNA and Protein Phylogeny, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003; Lemey, Salemi, Vandamme, The Phylogenetic Handbook – A Practical Approach to Phylogenetic Analysis and Hypothesis Testing, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009).

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0003-0136-2102

Areas of Interest
  • Bioinformatics
  • HIV
  • Molecular Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • Molecular epidemiology

Publications

2024
Bacterial DnaK reduces the activity of anti-cancer drugs cisplatin and 5FU.
Journal of translational medicine. 22(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s12967-024-05078-x. [PMID] 38475767.
2024
Forecasting dominance of SARS-CoV-2 lineages by anomaly detection using deep AutoEncoders.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. [DOI] 10.1101/2023.10.24.563721. [PMID] 37961168.
2024
Oral Cannabidiol Treatment Is Associated with an Anti-Inflammatory Gene Expression Signature in Myeloid Cells of People Living with HIV.
Cannabis and cannabinoid research. [DOI] 10.1089/can.2023.0139. [PMID] 38252549.
2023
Ancestral Origin and Dissemination Dynamics of Reemerging Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae, Haiti.
Emerging infectious diseases. 29(10):2072-2082 [DOI] 10.3201/eid2910.230554. [PMID] 37735743.
2023
Application of Phylodynamic Tools to Inform the Public Health Response to COVID-19: Qualitative Analysis of Expert Opinions
JMIR Formative Research. 7 [DOI] 10.2196/39409. [PMID] 36848460.
2023
ARCA: the interactive database for arbovirus reported cases in the Americas.
BMC bioinformatics. 24(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s12859-023-05433-7. [PMID] 37587443.
2023
Diversity and Genetic Reassortment of Keystone Virus in Mosquito Populations in Florida.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 108(6):1256-1263 [DOI] 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0594. [PMID] 37127267.
2023
Infectivity of three Mayaro Virus geographic isolates in human cell lines.
Acta tropica. 242 [DOI] 10.1016/j.actatropica.2023.106894. [PMID] 36965613.
2023
Machine Learning Prediction and Phyloanatomic Modeling of Viral Neuroadaptive Signatures in the Macaque Model of HIV-Mediated Neuropathology
Microbiology Spectrum. 11(2) [DOI] 10.1128/spectrum.03086-22. [PMID] 36847516.
2023
Molecular Basis of the Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 Serotype Switch from Ogawa to Inaba in Haiti
Microbiology Spectrum. 11(1) [DOI] 10.1128/spectrum.03624-22. [PMID] 36537825.
2023
Persistence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Omicron Variant in Children and Utility of Rapid Antigen Testing as an Indicator of Culturable Virus.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 76(3):e491-e494 [DOI] 10.1093/cid/ciac693. [PMID] 36029095.
2023
Seafood-Associated Outbreak of ctx-Negative Vibrio mimicus Causing Cholera-Like Illness, Florida, USA.
Emerging infectious diseases. 29(10):2141-2144 [DOI] 10.3201/eid2910.230486. [PMID] 37735754.
2022
A thermostable Cas12b from Brevibacillus leverages one-pot discrimination of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.
EBioMedicine. 77 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.103926. [PMID] 35290826.
2022
Analysis of the Origin and Dissemination of HIV-1 Subtype C in Bulgaria.
Viruses. 14(2) [DOI] 10.3390/v14020263. [PMID] 35215855.
2022
Analysis of Zika Virus Sequence Data Associated with a School Cohort in Haiti.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 107(4):873-880 [DOI] 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0204. [PMID] 36096408.
2022
Development of a Monoclonal Antibody to a Vibriophage as a Proxy for Vibrio cholerae Detection
Infection and Immunity. 90(8) [DOI] 10.1128/iai.00161-22. [PMID] 35862704.
2022
Discordance between HIV-1 Population in Plasma at Rebound after Structured Treatment Interruption and Archived Provirus Population in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
Microbiology Spectrum. 10(4) [DOI] 10.1128/spectrum.01353-22. [PMID] 35699458.
2022
Dynamic Prediction of Non-Neutral SARS-Cov-2 Variants Using Incremental Machine Learning.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 294:654-658 [DOI] 10.3233/SHTI220550. [PMID] 35612170.
2022
Early Emergence Phase of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant in Florida, US.
Viruses. 14(4) [DOI] 10.3390/v14040766. [PMID] 35458495.
2022
Emergence and Evolutionary Response of Vibrio cholerae to Novel Bacteriophage, Democratic Republic of the Congo1.
Emerging infectious diseases. 28(12):2482-2490 [DOI] 10.3201/eid2812.220572. [PMID] 36417939.
2022
Isolation of a Novel Recombinant Canine Coronavirus From a Visitor to Haiti: Further Evidence of Transmission of Coronaviruses of Zoonotic Origin to Humans.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 75(1):e1184-e1187 [DOI] 10.1093/cid/ciab924. [PMID] 34718467.
2022
Lessons Learned and Yet-to-Be Learned on the Importance of RNA Structure in SARS-CoV-2 Replication
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 86(3) [DOI] 10.1128/mmbr.00057-21. [PMID] 35862724.
2022
Low-frequency variants in mildly symptomatic vaccine breakthrough infections presents a doubled-edged sword.
Journal of medical virology. 94(7):3192-3202 [DOI] 10.1002/jmv.27726. [PMID] 35307848.
2022
Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 Subtype B Infection across Florida Reveals Few Large Superclusters with Metropolitan Origin
Microbiology Spectrum. 10(6) [DOI] 10.1128/spectrum.01889-22. [PMID] 36222706.
2022
Optimizing viral genome subsampling by genetic diversity and temporal distribution (TARDiS) for phylogenetics.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 38(3):856-860 [DOI] 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab725. [PMID] 34672334.
2022
Predicting emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern through a One Class dynamic anomaly detection algorithm.
BMJ health & care informatics. 29(1) [DOI] 10.1136/bmjhci-2022-100643. [PMID] 36593658.
2022
Rapid Emergence and Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Gamma (P.1) Variant in Haiti.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 74(11):2057-2060 [DOI] 10.1093/cid/ciab736. [PMID] 34471930.
2022
Rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis using disposable strips and a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor platform.
Journal of vacuum science and technology. B, Nanotechnology & microelectronics : materials, processing, measurement, & phenomena : JVST B. 40(2) [DOI] 10.1116/6.0001615. [PMID] 36032199.
2022
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Delta Vaccine Breakthrough Transmissibility in Alachua County, Florida.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 75(9):1618-1627 [DOI] 10.1093/cid/ciac197. [PMID] 35271704.
2022
Transmission cluster characteristics of global, regional, and lineage-specific SARS-CoV-2 phylogenies.
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine workshops. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. 2022:2940-2944 [DOI] 10.1109/bibm55620.2022.9995364. [PMID] 36780250.
2021
A Thermostable Cas12b from Brevibacillus Leverages One-pot Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. [DOI] 10.1101/2021.10.15.21265066. [PMID] 34704101.
2021
Brain tissue transcriptomic analysis of SIV-infected macaques identifies several altered metabolic pathways linked to neuropathogenesis and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) as potential therapeutic targets
Journal of NeuroVirology. 27(1):101-115 [DOI] 10.1007/s13365-020-00927-z. [PMID] 33405206.
2021
Causal AI with Real World Data: Do Statins Protect from Alzheimer’s Disease Onset?
ICMHI 2021 : 2021 5th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics : May 14-16, 2021, Kyoto, Japan. International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (5th : 2021 : Online). 2021:296-303 [DOI] 10.1145/3472813.3473206. [PMID] 37954527.
2021
Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Receptors Expression in Primary Endothelial Cells and Retinoic Acid-Differentiated Human Neuronal Cells.
Viruses. 13(11) [DOI] 10.3390/v13112193. [PMID] 34834998.
2021
Earliest detection to date of SARS-CoV-2 in Florida: Identification together with influenza virus on the main entry door of a university building, February 2020.
PloS one. 16(1) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0245352. [PMID] 33439885.
2021
Emergence of porcine delta-coronavirus pathogenic infections among children in Haiti through independent zoonoses and convergent evolution.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. [DOI] 10.1101/2021.03.19.21253391. [PMID] 33791709.
2021
Independent infections of porcine deltacoronavirus among Haitian children
Nature. 600(7887):133-137 [DOI] 10.1038/s41586-021-04111-z. [PMID] 34789872.
2021
Orthobunyaviruses in the Caribbean: Melao and Oropouche virus infections in school children in Haiti in 2014
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 15(6) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009494. [PMID] 34133422.
2021
Predator-Prey Dynamics of Intra-Host Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Evolution Within the Untreated Host.
Frontiers in immunology. 12 [DOI] 10.3389/fimmu.2021.709962. [PMID] 34691023.
2021
SARS-CoV-2 shifting transmission dynamics and hidden reservoirs potentially limit efficacy of public health interventions in Italy
Communications Biology. 4(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s42003-021-02025-0. [PMID] 33883675.
2021
Sociodemographic, Ecological, and Spatiotemporal Factors Associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Drug Resistance in Florida: A Retrospective Analysis.
The Journal of infectious diseases. 223(5):866-875 [DOI] 10.1093/infdis/jiaa413. [PMID] 32644119.
2020
A minor population of macrophage-tropic HIV-1 variants is identified in recrudescing viremia following analytic treatment interruption.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117(18):9981-9990 [DOI] 10.1073/pnas.1917034117. [PMID] 32300019.
2020
A Snapshot of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Availability up to April 2020 and its Implications: Data Analysis
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 6(2) [DOI] 10.2196/19170. [PMID] 32412415.
2020
Authors’ Reply to: Errors in Tracing Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Using a Maximum Likelihood Tree. Comment on “A Snapshot of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Availability up to April 2020 and its Implications: Data Analysis”
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 6(4) [DOI] 10.2196/24661. [PMID] 33174844.
2020
Collection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus from the Air of a Clinic Within a University Student Health Care Center and Analyses of the Viral Genomic Sequence.
Aerosol and air quality research. 20(6):1167-1171 [DOI] 10.4209/aaqr.2020.02.0202. [PMID] 33424954.
2020
Correction: A Snapshot of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Availability up to April 2020 and its Implications: Data Analysis
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 6(3) [DOI] 10.2196/22853. [PMID] 32776889.
2020
Delayed Expression of PD-1 and TIGIT on HIV-Specific CD8 T Cells in Untreated HLA-B*57:01 Individuals Followed from Early Infection.
Journal of virology. 94(14) [DOI] 10.1128/JVI.02128-19. [PMID] 32350076.
2020
Differing impacts of global and regional responses on SARS-CoV-2 transmission cluster dynamics.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. [DOI] 10.1101/2020.11.06.370999. [PMID] 33173870.
2020
Employing Molecular Phylodynamic Methods to Identify and Forecast HIV Transmission Clusters in Public Health Settings: A Qualitative Study.
Viruses. 12(9) [DOI] 10.3390/v12090921. [PMID] 32842636.
2020
Genetic Markers of Adaptation of Plasmodium falciparum to Transmission by American Vectors Identified in the Genomes of Parasites from Haiti and South America
mSphere. 5(5) [DOI] 10.1128/msphere.00937-20.
2020
Multiple Recombination Events and Strong Purifying Selection at the Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein Increased Correlated Dynamic Movements.
International journal of molecular sciences. 22(1) [DOI] 10.3390/ijms22010080. [PMID] 33374797.
2020
New Insights into the Effect of Residue Mutations on the Rotavirus VP1 Function Using Molecular Dynamic Simulations.
Journal of chemical information and modeling. 60(10):5011-5025 [DOI] 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00475. [PMID] 32786703.
2020
Phyloanatomic characterization of the distinct T cell and monocyte contributions to the peripheral blood HIV population within the host.
Virus evolution. 6(1) [DOI] 10.1093/ve/veaa005. [PMID] 32355568.
2020
Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117(23):12522-12523 [DOI] 10.1073/pnas.2007295117. [PMID] 32381734.
2020
The global spread of 2019-nCoV: a molecular evolutionary analysis.
Pathogens and global health. 114(2):64-67 [DOI] 10.1080/20477724.2020.1725339. [PMID] 32048560.
2020
Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae evolution and establishment of reservoirs in aquatic ecosystems.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117(14):7897-7904 [DOI] 10.1073/pnas.1918763117. [PMID] 32229557.
2020
Under-the-Radar Dengue Virus Infections in Natural Populations of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes.
mSphere. 5(2) [DOI] 10.1128/mSphere.00316-20. [PMID] 32350095.
2020
Whole genome sequencing of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: evolutionary analysis for outbreak investigation.
Future microbiology. 15:203-212 [DOI] 10.2217/fmb-2019-0074. [PMID] 32056447.
2019
Coding-Gene Coevolution Analysis of Rotavirus Proteins: A Bioinformatics and Statistical Approach.
Genes. 11(1) [DOI] 10.3390/genes11010028. [PMID] 31878331.
2019
Emergence of Madariaga virus as a cause of acute febrile illness in children, Haiti, 2015-2016.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 13(1) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006972. [PMID] 30629592.
2019
Genome and plasmid diversity of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-producing Escherichia coli ST131 – tracking phylogenetic trajectories with Bayesian inference.
Scientific reports. 9(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41598-019-46580-3. [PMID] 31312006.
2019
Influence of directional positive Darwinian selection-driven evolution on arboviruses Dengue and Zika virulence and pathogenesis.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 140 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106607. [PMID] 31473337.
2019
Isolation of Mayaro Virus from a Venezuelan Patient with Febrile Illness, Arthralgias, and Rash: Further Evidence of Regional Strain Circulation and Possible Long-Term Endemicity.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 101(6):1219-1225 [DOI] 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0357. [PMID] 31595869.
2019
Mayaro as a Caribbean traveler: Evidence for multiple introductions and transmission of the virus into Haiti.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. 87:151-153 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.07.031. [PMID] 31382049.
2019
Origin and dissemination of hepatitis B virus genotype C in East Asia revealed by phylodynamic analysis and historical correlates.
Journal of viral hepatitis. 26(1):145-154 [DOI] 10.1111/jvh.13006. [PMID] 30199591.
2019
The effect of interventions on the transmission and spread of HIV in South Africa: a phylodynamic analysis.
Scientific reports. 9(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41598-018-37749-3. [PMID] 30804361.
2019
Unexpected Predictors of Antibiotic Resistance in Housekeeping Genes of Staphylococcus Aureus.
ACM-BCB … … : the … ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine. 2019:259-268 [DOI] 10.1145/3307339.3342138. [PMID] 31592520.
2018
A new “American” subgroup of African-lineage Chikungunya virus detected in and isolated from mosquitoes collected in Haiti, 2016.
PloS one. 13(5) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0196857. [PMID] 29746539.
2018
Detection and phylogenetic characterization of arbovirus dual-infections among persons during a chikungunya fever outbreak, Haiti 2014.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(5) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006505. [PMID] 29851952.
2018
Distribution and characterization of Shiga toxin converting temperate phages carried by Shigella flexneri in Hispaniola.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases. 65:321-328 [DOI] 10.1016/j.meegid.2018.07.038. [PMID] 30075254.
2018
Evaluation of global HIV/SIV envelope gp120 RNA structure and evolution within and among infected hosts.
Virus evolution. 4(1) [DOI] 10.1093/ve/vey018. [PMID] 29951250.
2018
Evidence for Mother-to-Child Transmission of Zika Virus Through Breast Milk.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 66(7):1120-1121 [DOI] 10.1093/cid/cix968. [PMID] 29300859.
2018
Genomic Investigation of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Outbreak Involving Prison and Community Cases in Florida, United States.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 99(4):867-874 [DOI] 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0700. [PMID] 29987998.
2018
Identification of conserved, primary sequence motifs that direct retrovirus RNA fate.
Nucleic acids research. 46(14):7366-7378 [DOI] 10.1093/nar/gky369. [PMID] 29846681.
2018
In-depth phylodynamics, evolutionary analysis and in silico predictions of universal epitopes of Influenza A subtypes and Influenza B viruses.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 121:174-182 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.01.008. [PMID] 29355604.
2018
Islands as Hotspots for Emerging Mosquito-Borne Viruses: A One-Health Perspective.
Viruses. 11(1) [DOI] 10.3390/v11010011. [PMID] 30585228.
2018
Madariaga Virus: Identification of a Lineage III Strain in a Venezuelan Child With Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness, in the Setting of a Possible Equine Epizootic.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 67(4):619-621 [DOI] 10.1093/cid/ciy224. [PMID] 29718127.
2018
The new Chikungunya virus outbreak in Italy possibly originated from a single introduction from Asia.
Pathogens and global health. 112(2):93-95 [DOI] 10.1080/20477724.2017.1406565. [PMID] 29182057.
2018
The Spleen Is an HIV-1 Sanctuary During Combined Antiretroviral Therapy.
AIDS research and human retroviruses. 34(1):123-125 [DOI] 10.1089/AID.2017.0254. [PMID] 29084441.
2018
Viral Enrichment Methods Affect the Detection but Not Sequence Variation of West Nile Virus in Equine Brain Tissue.
Frontiers in veterinary science. 5 [DOI] 10.3389/fvets.2018.00318. [PMID] 30619900.
2017
A method for obtaining simian immunodeficiency virus RNA sequences from laser capture microdissected and immune captured CD68+ and CD163+ macrophages from frozen tissue sections of bone marrow and brain.
Journal of immunological methods. 442:59-63 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jim.2017.01.003. [PMID] 28093272.
2017
Coinfection With Zika and Dengue-2 Viruses in a Traveler Returning From Haiti, 2016: Clinical Presentation and Genetic Analysis.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 64(1):72-75 [PMID] 27694479.
2017
Complete Genome Sequences of Identical Zika virus Isolates in a Nursing Mother and Her Infant.
Genome announcements. 5(17) [DOI] 10.1128/genomeA.00231-17. [PMID] 28450510.
2017
Complete Genomic Sequence of Dengue virus 1, Isolated from Plasma Collected from a Haitian Child in 2014.
Genome announcements. 5(22) [DOI] 10.1128/genomeA.00331-17. [PMID] 28572304.
2017
Complete Genomic Sequence of Dengue Virus Serotype 4 Isolated from Plasma Collected from a Haitian Child in 2014.
Genome announcements. 5(40) [DOI] 10.1128/genomeA.01160-17. [PMID] 28983011.
2017
Detection of Alphacoronavirus vRNA in the Feces of Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) from a Colony in Florida, USA.
Diseases (Basel, Switzerland). 5(1) [DOI] 10.3390/diseases5010007. [PMID] 28933360.
2017
Emergence of recombinant Mayaro virus strains from the Amazon basin.
Scientific reports. 7(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41598-017-07152-5. [PMID] 28821712.
2017
Fatal Systemic Salmonellosis in a Florida Manatee ( Trichechus manatus latirostris).
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2017
Insights into the Impact of CD8+ Immune Modulation on Human Immunodeficiency Virus Evolutionary Dynamics in Distinct Anatomical Compartments by Using Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Macaque Models of AIDS Progression.
Journal of virology. 91(23) [DOI] 10.1128/JVI.01162-17. [PMID] 28931681.
2017
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Isolation of Coronavirus NL63 from Blood from Children in Rural Haiti: Phylogenetic Similarities with Recent Isolates from Malaysia.
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2017
Phylodynamic applications in 21st century global infectious disease research.
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Ranavirus phylogenomics: Signatures of recombination and inversions among bullfrog ranaculture isolates.
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2017
Single Genome Sequencing of Expressed and Proviral HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein 120 (gp120) and nef Genes.
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2016
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2016
Evolution of Neuroadaptation in the Periphery and Purifying Selection in the Brain Contribute to Compartmentalization of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) in the Brains of Rhesus Macaques with SIV-Associated Encephalitis.
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2016
Genetic Studies of Vibrio cholerae in South West Cameroon-A Phylogenetic Analysis of Isolates from the 2010-2011 Epidemic.
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2016
Genomic Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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2016
HIV DNA Is Frequently Present within Pathologic Tissues Evaluated at Autopsy from Combined Antiretroviral Therapy-Treated Patients with Undetectable Viral Loads.
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2016
HIV Maintains an Evolving and Dispersed Population in Multiple Tissues during Suppressive Combined Antiretroviral Therapy in Individuals with Cancer.
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2016
HIV-1 Evolutionary Patterns Associated with Metastatic Kaposi’s Sarcoma during AIDS.
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2016
Intrahost Evolution of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 Among Individuals With Reoccurring Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections.
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2016
Isolation of an Enterovirus D68 from Blood from a Child with Pneumonia in Rural Haiti: Close Phylogenetic Linkage with New York Strain.
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2016
Mayaro Virus in Child with Acute Febrile Illness, Haiti, 2015.
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Non-toxigenic environmental Vibrio cholerae O1 strain from Haiti provides evidence of pre-pandemic cholera in Hispaniola.
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2016
On the Physicochemical and Structural Modifications Associated with HIV-1 Subtype B Tropism Transition.
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2016
Phylogenetics and Phyloanatomy of HIV/SIV Intra-Host Compartments and Reservoirs: The Key Role of the Central Nervous System.
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2016
Phylogeny of Murray Valley encephalitis virus in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
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2016
Solution Structure of the HIV-1 Intron Splicing Silencer and Its Interactions with the UP1 Domain of Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) A1.
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The global spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome: an analysis fusing traditional epidemiological tracing and molecular phylodynamics.
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2016
The meningeal lymphatic system: a route for HIV brain migration?
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2015
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2015
On the early dynamics and spread of HIV-1.
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Phylogenetic and phylogeographic mapping of the avian coronavirus spike protein-encoding gene in wild and synanthropic birds.
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Phylogenetic Investigation of a Statewide HIV-1 Epidemic Reveals Ongoing and Active Transmission Networks Among Men Who Have Sex With Men.
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2015
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2015
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2014
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2014
Phylogenetic and geospatial evaluation of HIV-1 subtype diversity at the largest HIV center in Rhode Island.
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The effect of malnutrition on norovirus infection.
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2013
A single early introduction of HIV-1 subtype B into Central America accounts for most current cases.
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2013
Exploring the molecular epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of influenza A virus in Taiwan.
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2013
High intrapatient HIV-1 evolutionary rate is associated with CCR5-to-CXCR4 coreceptor switch.
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2013
HIV type 1 origin and transmission dynamics among different risk groups in sardinia: molecular epidemiology within the close boundaries of an Italian island.
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2013
Longitudinal analysis of intra-host simian immunodeficiency virus recombination in varied tissues of the rhesus macaque model for neuroAIDS.
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The intra-host evolutionary and population dynamics of human immunodeficiency virus type 1: a phylogenetic perspective.
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2012
A new evolutionary model for hepatitis C virus chronic infection.
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2012
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2012
Efficient transmission and persistence of low-frequency SIVmac251 variants in CD8-depleted rhesus macaques with different neuropathology.
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High-resolution deep sequencing reveals biodiversity, population structure, and persistence of HIV-1 quasispecies within host ecosystems.
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2012
HIV-1 Nef in macrophage-mediated disease pathogenesis.
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2012
Integrative molecular phylogeography in the context of infectious diseases on the human-animal interface.
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On Counting the Frequency Distribution of String Motifs in Molecular Sequences
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2011
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2011
Epidemiological network analysis in HIV-1 B infected patients diagnosed in Italy between 2000 and 2008.
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2011
High-resolution phylogenetics and phylogeography of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype C epidemic in South America.
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2011
HIV-1 phylogenetic analysis shows HIV-1 transits through the meninges to brain and peripheral tissues.
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2011
Long-Lived Historical Record of Evolution of Viral Diversity in Peripheral Blood Cells By Deep Pyrosequencing
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2008
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2007
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2007
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Hepatitis C virus evolutionary patterns studied through analysis of full-genome sequences.
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Effects of CSF1R blockade on repopulation of SIV reservoirs from the CNS to the periphery after antiretroviral therapy interruption
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: BOSTON COLLEGE via NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS
Jun 2023 ACTIVE
Revealing HIV-1 persistence in myeloid cell reservoirs
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF MIAMI via NATL INST OF HLTH
May 2023 ACTIVE
Defining a Role for Liver Myeloid Cells in Viral Persistence under ART
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF MIAMI via NATL INST OF HLTH NIDDK
Jul 2022 ACTIVE
A Phylodynamic Artificial Intelligence framework to predict evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in Immunocompromised persons with HIV (PhAI-CoV)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Jul 2022 ACTIVE
Effects of CSF1R blockade on repopulation of SIV reservoirs from the CNS to the periphery after antiretroviral therapy interruption
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: BOSTON COLLEGE via NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS
Jan 2022 – Dec 2022
Identification of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF MIAMI via AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
Jul 2021 – Jun 2022
Effects of CSF1R blockade on repopulation of SIV reservoirs from the CNS to the periphery after antiretroviral therapy interruption
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: BOSTON COLLEGE via NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS
Jul 2021 ACTIVE
Linking within- and between-host dynamics in tracking recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission
Role: Other
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Jun 2021 – Aug 2022
Expanding genomic surveillance and epidemiology capacity in Central Florida and Southeastern US
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: THE ROCKEFELLER FOU
Apr 2021 – Mar 2022
Identification of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology in Miami
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF MIAMI via AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
May 2020 ACTIVE
Forecasting trajectories of HIV transmission networks with a novel phylodynamic and deep learning framework
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Apr 2020 – Mar 2023
RAPID: Dynamic Identification of SARS-COV-2 Transmission Epicenters in Presence of Spatial Heterogeneity (COV-DYNAMITE)
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL SCIENCE FOU
Apr 2020 – Mar 2021
COVID-19: RAPID: Epidemiological and Phylogenetic models for Contact-Based Control of COVID-19
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE via NATL SCIENCE FOU
Sep 2019 – Feb 2021
Mobile Prevention Services to Respond to Expanding HIV Clusters in South Florida
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF MIAMI via NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Jul 2019 ACTIVE
OoR Matching Support for CTSI
Role: Project Manager
Funding: UF DIV OF SPONSORED RES MATCHING FUNDS
Jul 2019 – Jun 2022
DRPD-ROF2019: Single-cell sequencing of the citrus Huanglongbing pathogen, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus to advance understanding of pathogen biology
Role: Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
Funding: UF RESEARCH
Apr 2019 ACTIVE
Cholera in Goma, DRC
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Apr 2018 – Dec 2020
Monocyte traffic and neuropathogenesis of AIDS
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: BOSTON COLLEGE via NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS
Feb 2018 – Jan 2022
HIV Dynamic Modelling for Identification of Transmission Epicenters (HIV-DYNAMITE)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Jan 2018 – Dec 2020
Regression, Phylogenetics, and Study Design in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: OHIO STATE UNIV via NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Sep 2017 ACTIVE
Viral evolution in peripheral macrophages and brain during progression to AIDS
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS
Apr 2017 – Mar 2019
Salivary microRNA as novel biomarkers of HIV/AIDS disease progression in people living with HIV.
Role: Other
Funding: UF FOUNDATION
Dec 2016 – Nov 2023
Cholera persistence, transmission, and clinical illness in Haiti
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Jul 2016 – Jun 2022
Cholera transmission and evolution in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Jul 2016 – Jul 2016
Whole Genome Sequencing of Neisseria Meningitidis Serogroup Isolates
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH
Jun 2016 – Oct 2017
Mapping and modeling Bacillus anthracis and Clostridiumbotulinum across North Africa and the Middle East with high resolutiongenetic sequencing and spatial analysis.
Role: Project Manager
Funding: US DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Oct 2015 – Jun 2016
Whole Genome Sequencing of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 Isolates
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH
Oct 2015 – Mar 2018
Monocyte Traffic and Neuropathogenesis of AIDS
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: BOSTON COLLEGE via NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS
Sep 2013 – Jul 2017
Molecular Features and Approach to the HIV CNS Reservoir Post cART
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO via NATL INST OF HLTH NIMH
Sep 2012 – Aug 2017
The Center for HIV RNA Studies (CRNA)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF MICHIGAN via NATL INST OF HLTH
Dec 2011 – Jun 2016
Cholera Transmission in Gressier Region, Haiti
Role: Project Manager
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Aug 2010 – Oct 2020
GA: support reserach fellowship in Pediatrics Immune Disorders
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UF FOUNDATION
Jul 2007 – Aug 2016
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Role: Project Manager
Funding: UF RESEARCH FOU

Education

Postdoctoral Associate
2002-2004 · University of California, Irvine, USA
Postdoctoral Scientist
1999-2002 · University of Leuven, Belgium
PhD
1999 · Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Specialty in Biotechnology
1995 · University of Milan, Italy
B.Sc/Master in Chemistry
1991 · University of Pavia, Italy

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