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Affiliated Faculty
photo Apichai Tuanyok, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida


Burkholderia pseudomallei
Office: BSB 320F
Phone:
Email: tuanyok [at] hawaii.edu
photo Brenda Y. Hernandez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Researcher)
Cancer Center
University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii


Cancer epidemiology, human papillomavirus, pathology
Office:
Phone:
Email: Brenda [at] crch.hawaii.edu
photo Guylaine Poisson, Ph.D.

Advisor, Bioinformatics Core
Associate Professor
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
College of Natural Sciences



Office: POST 310
Phone: 808-956-3496
Email: guylaine [at] hawaii.edu
photo Hongwei Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
College of Natural Sciences


Dengue virus, pathogenesis, RNAi
Office: Snyder Hall 308E
Phone: 808-956-5518
Email: hli [at] hawaii.edu
photo Hyeyun Kang, Ph.D.

Senior Researcher
Division of Respiratory Viruses
Korea National Institute of Health
Korea 363-951


Hantavirus, evolution, phylogeography, Soricomorpha
Office:
Phone: +82-43-719-8119
Email: hyeyun.kang [at] gmail.com
photo Jeffrey F. Miller, Ph.D.

Professor and M. Philip Davis Chair
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California



Office:
Phone: (310) 206-7926
Email: jfmiller [at] ucla.edu
photo Jin-Won Song, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Microbiology
Director
Institute for Viral Diseases
College of Medicine
Korea University Seoul, Korea


Viral hemorrhagic fevers, hantavirus, rodent-borne diseases, respiratory viruses, virus evolution
Office:
Phone: +82-2-920-6408
Email: jwsong [at] korea.ac.kr
photo Kathryn V. Holmes, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Colorado Health Science Center
Denver, Colorado



Office:
Phone: (303) 724-4231
Email: kathryn.holmes [at] uchsc.edu
photo Kyungim Baek, Ph.D.

Advisor, Bioinformatics Core
Assistant Professor
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
College of Natural Sciences


metagenomics, machine learning, visual perception, computer vision
Office: POST 314F
Phone: (808) 956-8560
Email: kyungim [at] hawaii.edu
photo Marc A. Le Pape, Ph.D.

Advisor, Bioinformatics Core
Adjunct Specialist, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
John A. Burns School of Medicine



Office: BSB-320
Phone: (808) 692-1629
Email: lepape [at] hawaii.edu
photo Nuankanya Sathirapongsasuti, M.D., Ph.D.

Lecturer
Translational Medicine Program
Faculty of Medicine
Ramathibodi Hospital
Mahidol University
270 Rama VI Rd., Ratchathewi
Bangkok 10400 Thailand



Office:
Phone: (66) 2-201-2613
Email: nuankanya.sat [at] mahidol.ac.th
photo Ok Sarah Shin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Medicine
Korea University
Seoul 136-705, Republic of Korea


Innate immunity, Lyme disease, hantaviruses
Office:
Phone: 02 2626 3280
Email: sarahshin79 [at] gmail.com
photo Satoru Arai, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Senior Researcher
Infectious Disease Surveillance Center
National Institute of Infectious Diseases Tokyo, Japan


Epidemic infectious diseases, Japanese encephalitis virus, hantaviruses
Office:
Phone: +81-3-5285-1111
Email: arais [at] nih.go.jp
photo Se Hun Gu, Ph.D.

Senior Researcher
The 5th R&D Institute 3rd Directorate
Agency for Defense Development
Yuseong P.O. Box 35
Daejeon, 34188, Korea


Hantavirus, Animal Models
Office:
Phone:
Email: sehun.gu [at] gmail.com
photo Shannon N. Bennett, Ph.D.

Associate Curator of Microbiology
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive
San Francisco, California 94118


Evolutionary biology, phylogenetics
Office:
Phone:
Email: SBennett [at] calacademy.org
photo Szu-Chia Hsieh, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Microbiology
College of Medicine
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan



Office:
Phone:
Email: hsiehsc [at] hawaii.edu