Dr. David Duffy
Condron Family Endowed Associate Professor of Wildlife Disease Genomics, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
Focus regions: Global, Palearctic, Nearctic
David Duffy earned his Ph.D. in zoology from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and held postdoctoral and research-fellow positions at University College Dublin's Systems Biology Ireland, the University of Florida's Whitney Laboratory, and Bangor University's Environment Centre Wales. He is now Condron Family Endowed Associate Professor of Wildlife Disease Genomics at the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience. His lab focuses on environmental DNA genomics and questions at the interface between wildlife and human health, aiming to identify disease mechanisms and novel therapeutic treatments — with a particular focus on understanding fibropapillomatosis in endangered sea turtles.