SEER Lab - Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory , UF

11/30/2021

Looking for a new GIS course? Check out "GIS with Q-GIS" in Spring 2022. This class, taught by SEER Lab's Jason Blackburn, will introduce students to Q-GIS, the open source desktop application, which is quickly becoming a global go-to. This course is designed to introduce students to geospatial data management, creation, and editing. From there, we will explore data analysis and map production for anything from the web to book chapters and publications. We will explore raster and vector data formats and analysis tools. This class can be taken online or live in Turlington Hall's GIS Lab in 3006. Q-GIS is quickly becoming a go-to for international collaborations, non-profit organizations, and groups with limited access to ArcGIS. It is a powerful toolset. Come check it out!

10/23/2021

The aim of the GARPTools package is to provide tools to prepare data for input into the desktop version of the genetic algorithm for rule-set prediction (GARP), for the evaluation of the accuracy of ...

10/23/2021

is GPS data from recovered collars from collaboration with UF IFAS Cervidae Health Research Initiative and ELISA plates bound for Uganda for our collaboration with Cornell lead by SEER Co-Director Michael Norris. diagnostics and data from here, there, and everywhere.

10/08/2021

Check out SEER Lab's latest. GARPTools is an R package for data preparation and model evaluation before and after DesktopGARP experiments. This package consolidates data prep and accuracy metrics. Now you can examine variable contribution too! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecog.05642

10/01/2021

Calling on remote sensing and environmental scientists looking for an amazing Postdoc position! Check out the opportunity in Dr. Jane Southworth’s research group! This is a diverse and dynamic group within a diverse and exciting department! Come and collaborate!!!

09/30/2021

COVID-19 has changed a lot. But it has not changed our constant contact with our network of international partners. Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp, whatever-it-takes, SEER Lab stays connected. # MedGeo is online and virtual!

09/29/2021

SEER Lab is busy as ever! We’ve got field and lab studies running both here and with our international partners. Our work with CHeRI continues and we’re running camera traps, GPS collars on deer, ear tag readers to better understand feeder usage and orbivirus risk. We’ve got lab experiments on pathogen persistence running full speed, and Web-based meetings are keeping our international collaborations running despite COVID-19 challenges. is out there, it’s in the field, it’s in the lab, it’s global… UF Geography Department - University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

06/01/2021

Calling on SEER Lab's colleagues, friends, and collaborators focused on bacterial zoonosis transmission. Submit a paper on your work to our special issue:

Special Issue in journal Pathogens: Advances in Transmission Patterns of Bacterial Zoonoses

02/12/2021

As part of meet SEER Lab’s Maria Uribasterra. Maria is a GIS technician working on several of our wildlife disease ecology projects. Check out her latest first lead paper as a starting place. Maria is !

Maria G. Uribasterra, Jeremy P. Orange, Emily T. N. Dinh, Clint Peters, Rebecca M. Peters, Olivia Goodfriend, Samantha M. Wisely, Jason K. Blackburn; Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus and Bluetongue Virus Seroprevalence in Wild White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Florida, USA. J Wildl Di...

02/12/2021

As part of meet Dr. Diansy Zincke, SEER Lab’s BSL-2 and BSL-3 Manager. Diansy’s work focuses on pathogen detection, characterization, and ecology. While Diansy does join our muddy boots field efforts, she is also one of our Tyvek booties geographers, pushing our studies forward in our BSL-3 labs. Diansy works on projects across the US, Vietnam, Africa, and Kazakhstan.

02/12/2021

As part of meet Morgan Walker, Spatial Epidemiologist, GIS Manager, and muddy boots geographer. Morgan works on our projects in Texas, Montana, and Vietnam.

12/05/2020

Check out the latest SEER Lab publication co-authored by Associate Director and Medical Geography Assistant Research Professor in UF Geography Department - University of Florida Michael Norris and BioSci Andy Colossal Bluhm. Mike and Andy collaborate with researchers across campus, including the College of Veterinary Medicine and College of Medicine and collaborators at UC San Francisco, to evaluate if and how antihistamines may reduce infection or directly work as antivirals. This is a key step toward improving treatment therapies for COVID-19. Dr. Norris leads an effort to directly work with the SARS2 virus in one of our SEER BLS-3 laboratories in the Emerging Pathogens Institute. is experimental and on the frontlines!

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X20321409%23!

There is an urgent need to identify therapies that prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and improve the outcome of COVID-19 patients. Although repurposed drug…