Anastasia Tomatsidou, PhD

Dr. Chakraborty is a Scientific Researcher. He has a strong background in molecular microbiology, molecular biology, protein engineering and expression with a recent focus on the pathogenesis of C. difficile and animal models of C. difficile infection. He was an Assistant Professor and the Department Head from 2018 to 2020 in the Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, NIIT University, India. 

 Irene is a Graduate student in the Bioinformatics & Computational Biology program at USF and works on vaccine development against C. difficile infection using reverse vaccinology.  

  Dr. Tomatsidou is a Postdoctoral Fellow. She is well-trained in molecular microbiology, molecular biology and animal models of infectious diseases including CDI and COVID-19. 

 Dr. Wang is a Research Assistant Professor. He has a strong background in microbiology, molecular biology, protein expression and purification, infectious diseases with a focus on pathogenesis of C. difficile, animal models of C. difficile infection (CDI) and development of vaccines against CDI.  He has published more than 50 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals. ​

 Xingmin Sun,  PhD (Principal Investigator) 

E-mail: sun5@usf.edu

  Ethan is an undergraduate student with a major in Biomedical Engineering. He works on vaccine prediction.

 Shaohui Wang, PhD 

 Adrit is an undergraduate student from the Judy Genshaft Honors Colllege - USF with a major in Biomedical Sciences in the 7-year accelerated BS/MD program from honor college, and  works on vaccine development using reverse vaccinology. 

 Irene is a Graduate student in the Biotechnology program at USF and works on vaccine development against C. difficile infection.  

Hassan is  a Graduate student in the Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program, and works on the development of epitope-based vaccines and novel phage endolysins targeting C. difficile.

Rajath Talpady, BS​​

Veronica Gosnell, BS 

Adrit Roy​​

Clostridioides difficile  Research Team

​University of South Florida

​​​​​​​​​​​Lauren Lapeter, BS

Lubem Agbendeh, MS

 Soumyadeep Chakraborty,  PhD 

Ethan Wasserman​​

Team

 Marco is an undergraduate student from the Judy Genshaft Honors Colllege - USF with a major in Biomedical Sciences in the 7-year accelerated BS/MD program from honor college, and works on phage lysins and antigen prediction. 

  Lubem is a PhD student and is working on vaccine development against C. difficile infection using reverse vaccinology. 

Marco Hanna​​

Ramya Yada, BS​​

​ Dr. Sun is a tenured Professor with early promotion in the Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida (USF). He holds affiliation appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Molecular Bioscience, Department of Chemistry at USF, and USF Genomics. He received his PhD (magna cum laude) in Natural Sciences from University of Kiel, Germany, and his Master Degree in Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology from Nanjing Agricultural University, China. He received his postdoctoral training in Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry at Brown University, USA. He has a broad interest in microbial pathogenesis and host-pathogen interactions. The research in his laboratory is focused on the pathogenesis of Clostridioides difficile and development of novel  therapeutics including vaccines to prevent / treat C. difficile infection (CDI). ​​He was an NIH (National Institutes of Health) Career Development K01 Awardee. His laboratory has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2012. He has been actively serving NIH study section panels including chairing the study section panel since 2016. He serves as an Associate Editor for “Molecular Medicine”, and “Frontiers in Immunology”, and editorial boards for “Infection and Immunity” and “Applied and  Environmental Microbiology”. He received  the "Tufts Institute for Innovation Inaugural Award" in 2014. In 2018, he was awarded "Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award" at USF. In 2020, he was awarded "Excellence in Innovation Award" at USF. He  served as the Chairman for the Research Committee in the College of Medicine at USF from 2019 to 2020. He served as the President and Vice President for the USF Chapter, National Academy of Inventors, USA from 2022-2023. He enjoys music, workout, and cuisines from different cultures during spare time.                                                                                          

              Dr Sun profile:     //health.usf.edu/medicine/molecularmedicine/faculty/sun5                               https://health.usf.edu/publichealth/ghidr/genomics/researchers/xingmin-sun