Subhashinie Kariyawasam

Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Ph.D., is a professor of microbiology and a chair in the Department of Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine.  She received her BVSc from the University of Peradeniya in 1992 and her Ph.D. from the University of Guelph in 2003. Her research focuses on veterinary diagnostic microbiology, pathogenomics of E. coli and Salmonella, the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, and bacterial pathogenesis.