Sadie Ryan of UF is focusing on tools and models that can be used to predict the next zoonotic pandemic. Ryan created a virus database that organizes past zoonotic risk modelling studies and lends to the prediction of future pandemics.

Ryan is also exploring the consequences of zoonotic risk technologies, a family of approaches that can identify viruses that could potentially become zoonoses. Ryan found that machine learning and other data-driven techniques could also prove useful for sorting through massive amounts of zoonotic data.

• Sadie Ryan