Faculty
Collaborations between ESF researchers and scientists at UMU including areas of vector biology, cardiovascular health effects of road traffic, stressors and infectious disease, and others. The faculty members listed below have over 275 peer-reviewed publications, over $12 million in active grant funding, 2 patents and 7 provisional patents.
Faculty
| NAME | TITLE | EXPERTISE |
|---|---|---|
| Saravanan Thangamani, PhD | Director, SUNY Center for Vector-Borne Diseases | Impact of ecological changes on geographic expansion of Powassan virus and other tick borne diseases in Upstate, New York; Mosquito determinants of Chikungunya virus and Zika virus transmission; Effect of tick co-infections on the clinical outcome of Lyme disease; Anti-tick vaccine development. |
| Stephen Thomas, MD | Director, Institute for Global Health & Translational Science; Chief of Infectious Disease, Upstate | Vaccine development; flavivirus research |
| John Stella, PhD | Vice President for Research; Professor, ESF | Development of biopolymers for medical technologies; microbial physiology; synthetic bio. |
| Timothy Endy, MD | Program Leader, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) | Flavivirus research, international disease surveillance, vaccine development |
| Christopher P. Morley, PhD | Chair, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Upstate | Health Disparities & Social Determinants of Health, including built environment; Public Health Policy |
| Brian Leydet, PhD, MPH | Assistant Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology, ESF | Vector-borne diseases; novel control methods |
| Mary Collins, PhD | Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, ESF | Models of impact of industrial toxins on cancer; environmental justice and equity |
| Kristopher Paolino, MD | Assistant Professor; Director of Clinical Research for CGHATS, Upstate | Clinical trial design and conduct; infectious disease research |
| Jaime Mirowsky, PhD | Assistant Professor, Chemistry, ESF | Health impacts of chemical and non-chemical stressors in healthy & susceptible populations |
| Roxanne Razavi, PhD | Assistant Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology, ESF | Mercury dynamics in freshwater systems; effects of mercury in food webs |
| Anna Stewart, PhD, MPA | Assistant Professor; Latin America Coordinator, Upstate | Ecology of infectious disease; environmental drivers of disease; international collaborations |
| Telisa Stewart, DrPH | Assistant Professor, Public Health & Preventative Medicine, Upstate | Public Health, population based health, community education and participation |
| Lee Newman, PhD | Coordinator, Environmental Health Major; Associate Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology, ESF | Hyperspectral imaging of environmental pollutants; nanoparticle toxicity |
| Tina Lupone, MPH | Director of Education, IGHATS, Upstate | Public health; epidemiology; education initiatives |
| Joseph Domachowske, MD | Professor; Director of Maternal-Child & Pediatric Health, Upstate | Pediatric infectious disease clinical care and research; clinical trial design and conduct |
| Adam Waickman | Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Upstate | Degue virus pathogenesis and Human immunity. |
Faculty Affiliates
| NAME | INTERESTS |
|---|---|
| Shijie Liu, PhD | Bioengineering, fermentation, kinetics, separation, pulping, bleaching, fiber properties, sustainability, biofuel, renewable chemicals, biomaterials |
| Gregory L. Boyer, PhD | Biochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, plant and algal biochemistry, chemical ecology and toxins produced by algae. Environmental monitoring, including Buoy and ship-based monitoring systems for water quality |
| John P. Hassett, PhD | Environmental chemistry, aquatic chemistry |
| M. Margaret Bryant, PhD | Land Planning |
| Margaret Formica | Cancer epidemiology, including environmental risk factors, built environment effects on health |
| Melissa K. Fierke, PhD | Forest entomology, forest ecology, invasive forest pests, insect-tree interactions, tree defenses |
| Susan E. Anagnost | wood anatomy, wood decay, microscopy |
| Huiting Mao | Environmental chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, air quality, regional to global budgets of trace gases, long range transport, continental export, climate change |
| Paula Rosenbaum, PhD | Pediatric and adult cancers, woman's health, and the role of environmental exposures in reproductive health, endocrine diseases and immunologic disorders, including allergies and asthma |
| Sharon D. Moran | Environmental policy, human dimensions of water/wastewater issues, political ecology, environment-society relations, green and innovative technologies, environmental issues in post-communist countries, qualitative research methods, gender and nature, sustainability indicators, emergent technologies, environmental justice, ethical frameworks in public policy |
| Dongliang Wang, PhD | Biomarker evaluation, diagnostic test evaluation, statistical genetics, nonparametric statistics, biostatistics |
| Martha Wojtowycz, PhD | Health economics, health services research |
| Donald A Cibula, PhD | Biostatistics, ecology, geographic information systems (GIS) |
| Travis Hobart, Md, MPH | Environmental health risk factors in the pediatric population, lead screening |
| Douglas S. Walsh | Clinical drug and vaccine trial experience working with tropical diseases such as malaria, and tropical dermatoses such as leprosy, leishmaniasis and Buruli ulcer |
| Christopher Whipps | Fish parasites and diseases, wildlife diseases, parasitology, microbiology, taxonomy, molecular systematics, diagnostics, parasites as biological tags and ecological indicators, epidemiology and control of pathogens of ecological and veterinary importance, evolution and biology of disease causing organisms in animal populations using molecular systematics |
| Timothy Endy, MD | Emeritus Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Upstate Flavivirus research, international disease surveillance, vaccine development |