Lab Manager Mentorship Program
Lab Manager Mentorship Program
The EHS Mentorship Program connects University of Florida researchers, laboratory professionals, and safety experts with students and early-career scientists seeking guidance in research practices, laboratory management, and regulatory compliance. Participants represent a range of disciplines and are available to share experience, answer questions, and support academic and professional development.
| Name | Department | Research Focuses and Specialties | |
| Brad Daigneault | b.daigneault@ufl.edu | Animal Sciences | Basic and translational research to address infertility using large animal models. Uses genome editing, assisted reproductive technologies, micromanipulation, and semen evaluation techniques. We investigate genomic, epigenomic, and environmental regulation of preimplantation embryo development in cattle, pigs, and horses with an emphasis on post-ejaculatory sperm exposure to environmental toxicants that result in subtle phenotypes but alter sperm function, fertilization, and embryo development |
| Camara Casson | camara.casson@ufl.edu | Biomedical Engineering | Our current research focuses on using quantitative biology approaches to cultivate a mechanistic understanding of tumor heterogeneity and evolution to optimize cancer treatment strategies while minimize their adverse effects. The Battling Evolution through Adaptive Therapy (BEAT) Cancer Lab integrates computational, mathematical, and wet-lab experimental techniques to investigate tumor heterogeneity at the molecular, tissue, and systems levels. Our wet lab experiments will focus around breast and ovarian cancer, whereas our computational projects address several types of cancer (lung, kidney, ovarian, colo-rectal) and tumorigenesis. |
| James Ramsden | ramsdenj@ufl.edu | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Human epithelial immune response |
| Josee Gauthier | Josee.Gauthier@medicine.ufl.edu | Medicine | Colon Cancer and Microbiome inflammation and colon cancer animal model |
| Gary Brown | gabrown@ufl.edu | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | General laboratory management |
| Dave Fromholt | dfromhol@phhp.ufl.edu | Dept. of Physical Therapy, PHHP | Intracellular and intercellular mechanisms of long-lasting respiratory motor plasticity triggered by repeated exposure to brief episodes of low oxygen (intermittent hypoxia), the ability to harness that intermittent hypoxia-induced spinal plasticity to treat respiratory and non-respiratory paralysis following spinal injury and during motor neuron disease (ALS), cell-based strategies to treat breathing deficits, and the impact of systemic inflammation on breathing and its control. Investigations span intracellular, intercellular and physiological systems level mechanisms, and translation to humans with acquired or neurodegenerative neurological disorders (SCI and ALS). |
| Sherry Burris | sheryl.burris@ufl.edu | PHARMACODYNAMICS, Genetics | We do new drug discovery with nuclear receptors (ERR, ROR, REVERB, LXR). We run biochemical assays, different cell culture assays, gene expression, animal studies, histology, etc.. We work on diseases such as alzheimers, cancer, inflammation, atherosclerosis, NASH, to name a few. |
| Savannah Hardiman | shardiman@ehs.ufl.edu | EH&S | Laboratory and regulatory experience |
| Chris Overend | coverend@ufl.edu | EH&S | Laboratory and regulatory experience |