Christopher N. Mores

cmores@ufl.edu

(80% Research / 20% Teaching)

Education

• B.S. 1995 Rutgers University , Biological Sciences
• M.S. 1998 Harvard University , Tropical Public Health
• Sc.D. 2002 Harvard University , Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Employment

• University of Florida , Assistant Professor 08/04-present
• United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, National Research Council Fellowship Associate 08/02-07/04, Visiting Scientist 09/04-present
• Harvard University , Graduate Research Associate 09/96-06/02
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Director of Arbovirus Surveillance Program and associated laboratories 07/97-10/01
• Robert Wood Johnson University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey , Cooper Hospital , Research Technician 06/95-06/96

Research Interests

• Research concentrates on ecology of arthropod-borne viruses, using both molecular biology to study virus population genetics and classic virological techniques, to investigate patterns of disease transmission and maintenance. Domestic research focus is on mosquito-transmitted viruses endemic to Florida .   International research focuses on the arboviral burden of disease in Central Asia .   Works with mosquito control, military, and public health agencies on vector-borne disease issues.  

Teaching Interests

•   Teaching concentrates on epidemiology of infectious diseases, with a particular emphasis on vector-borne disease.   Is currently developing a distance learning course in medical entomology.  

Accomplishments

• Identified patterns in viral genetics that describe spatial and temporal subtypes of eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus; additional results suggest modulatory effect of viral genetics on transmission intensity (in prep.).   Identified a putative reservoir for Karshi virus (a tick-borne encephalitis strain) in the soft tick Ornithodoros tartakovskyi.

Publications

• Zeltsman D, Quinn JV, Mores C and Slotman, GJ. 1997 Pathophysiologic plasma levels of leukotriene C4 in relation to the hemodynamic dysfunction and mediator release of graded bacteremia. Shock 17(4):282-7.
• Turell MJ, O'Guinn ML, Wasieloski LP Jr, Dohm DJ, Lee WJ, Cho HW, Kim HC, Burkett DA, Mores CN, Coleman RE and Klein TA. 2003. Isolation of Japanese encephalitis and Getah viruses from mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) collected near Camp Greaves , Gyonggi Province , Republic of Korea , 2000. J. Med. Entomol. 40(4):580-4.
• Turell MJ, Mores CN, Lee JS, Paragas JJ, Shermuhemedova D, Endy TP and Khodjaev S. 2004. Experimental transmission of Karshi and Langat (tick-borne encephalitis virus complex) viruses by Ornithodoros ticks (Acari: Argasidae). J. Med. Entomol. 41(5):973-7.
• Blow JA, Dohm DJ, Negley DL and Mores CN. 2004.Virus inactivation by nucleic acid extraction reagents. J. Virol. Methods 119(2):195-8.