Zsolt Toth, PhD

      (Associate Professor)

• Associate Professor, July 2022-
• Assistant Professor, University of Florida, College of Dentistry, Department of Oral Biology, Gainesville, Florida, 2016-2022
• Assistant Professor of Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2013-2016
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2008-2013
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, 2007
• PhD, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, 2002-2006
• MSc, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, 2002

Dr. Toth UFCD department info…

Current Lab Members

See-Chi (Sookie) Lee, PhD

Postdoc – Microbiology & Immunology concentration IDP program – Joined the Toth lab in March 2020. Sookie graduated in December 2023. Currently, she is a postdoc in the Toth lab.

Amanda Pretory

PhD student – Microbiology & Immunology concentration IDP program – Joined the Toth lab in January 2024.

Minhchau To

Research assistant – Joined the Toth lab in April 2023.

Jimei Lin

Volunteer undergraduate – Joined the Toth lab in November 2023.

Jordyn G. Hannum

Volunteer undergraduate – Joined the Toth lab in November 2023.

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Lab Alumni:

Seung Jin (James) Jang, PhD

DMD/PhD student at the University of Florida College of Dentistry since August 2017. James joined the lab for PhD in August 2020 and graduated in May 2024.

Lauren McKenzie Spires, PhD

PhD student – Microbiology & Immunology concentration IDP program – Joined the Toth lab in January 2020. Kenzie graduated in May 2024.

Kevin Hall

Lab manager and research assistant – May 2022 – October 2023.

Lauren Roberts Combs, PhD

PhD student – Microbiology & Immunology concentration IDP program (January 2019 – graduated in May 2023).

Julia Chen

Lab manager and research assistant (June 2021- May 2022)

On Ki Grina Omaira Cheng

Research assistant (July 2021- May 2022)

Abhishek Kumar, PhD

Postdoctoral associate July 2019 – March 2022.

Nenavath Gopal Naik, PhD

Postdoctoral associate August 2018 – April 2021

Juan D. Alonso

Lab manager and research assistant May 2018 – May 2020
Past positions in Toth lab:  UF undergraduate researcher until graduation.

Gavin Golas, PhD

PhD student – Microbiology & Immunology concentration IDP program – T90 NIH/NIDCR training grant pre-doctoral fellow. Joined the Toth lab in August 2017. Graduated in July 2019.

David Brice, PhD

Postdoctoral associate – January-April 2019

Aria Sharma, DMD

UFCD Research Track Dental Student –  UF College of Dentistry DMD Candidate | Class of 2019 Vice President, 2016-2019 Aria was co-mentored by Dr. Toth Dr. Papp.

Katherine Glickman

UF Undergraduate student, Undergraduate researcher summer 2017 – August 2018.

Richard Smindak, PhD

Postdoctoral associate 2017-2018.

Thomas Hong Nguyen

UF undergraduate student, undergraduate researcher 2017-2018.

Kyra Senchyshak

UF undergraduate student, undergraduate researcher summer 2017 – March 2018.

Paul Faelnar

Research laboratory technician in 2016.