Ana V. Longo

I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. I am a disease ecologist and evolutionary biologist who aims to identify and quantify the ecological and evolutionary processes that allow hosts to interact with their pathogens, parasites, and symbionts. My lab integrates diverse approaches from genomics, population biology, microbiology, epidemiology, community ecology, and co-evolution to distinguish mechanisms resulting in particular disease outcomes across species and contrasting states (for example, endemic infections vs. outbreaks). We aim to generate empirical data to answer long-standing questions in evolutionary biology and ecology using amphibians and reptiles as focal systems.