UF veterinary researcher to chair international scientific group

Daniel Brown, Ph.D., a scientist at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been voted chairman-elect of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology, a nonprofit scientific group dedicated to the study of a type of bacteria that infect a wide variety of animals and plants. His term will be from 2012 to 2014.

An associate professor in the college’s department of infectious diseases and pathology, Brown also chaired the scientific program committee for the 18th International Congress of the IOM, which was held in Chianciano Terme, Italy, in July 2010.

Brown’s work focuses on genetic and taxonomic analyses of pathogenic mycoplasmas and the diseases they may cause in animals and humans.

His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Morris Animal Foundation, the UF University Scholars Program and the Merck-Merial Veterinary Scholars Program.