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, 2006
- MSc, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, 2002
Dr. Toth UFCD department info…
Lab in 2019



Current Lab Members
Lauren Roberts
PhD student – Microbiology & Immunology concentration IDP program – Joined the Toth lab in January 2019.
Lauren McKenzie Spires
PhD student – Microbiology & Immunology concentration IDP program – Joined the Toth lab in January 2020.
See-Chi Lee
PhD student – Microbiology & Immunology concentration IDP program – Joined the Toth lab in March 2020.
Seung Jin Jang
DMD/PhD student at the University of Florida College of Dentistry since August 2017.
Kevin Hall
Lab manager and research assistant – Joined the Toth lab in July 2022.
Lab Alumni:
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.