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Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann

Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann,

Professor, Anatomic Pathology Service Chief

Department: Department of Comparative, Diagnostic & Population Medicine
Business Email: aline.hoffmann@ufl.edu

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About Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann

I am a board certified veterinary anatomic pathologist involved and dedicated to research, diagnostic pathology, and training of professional students and veterinary anatomic pathology residents. I am particularly interested and passionate about dermatopathology and fungal diagnostics. I am committed to improvement of animal health and have focused my research career on investigating the role the skin microbiome plays in health and disease in companion animals, pathogenesis of infectious diseases, basic dermatopathology, and microbiology. A special area of my research interest is the development of molecular diagnostics for identification of fungal organisms in formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissues and cytology slides. Through many collaborations, I have supported toxicology studies, in particular investigating the effects of air pollution in animal models.

Accomplishments

  1. Mid Career Excellence Award for Diagnostics

    American College of Veterinary Pathologists

  2. Clinical Service Award

    Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, Texas A&M University

  3. John Paul Delepane Award

    College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University

  4. ACVP Young Investigator Award – Experimental disease and Industrial and Toxicology Pathology, 2nd Place “Target cells infected by Cache Valley Virus in the ovine fetus”

    61st Annual Meeting of The American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Baltimore, MD

  5. Graduate Student Scholarship Award

    College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University

  6. L.P. Jones Pathology Resident Award

    College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University

  7. ACVP/AAVLD Diagnostic Pathology Travel Award “Central nervous system pathology of naturally ocurring Trypanosoma evansi infection in horses”

    58th Annual Meeting of The American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Savannah, GA.

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught

  1. VEM5751 – Anatomic Path Core Clerkship

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  2. VEM5851 – Adv. Anatomic Pathology Clerkship

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  3. VEM5162 – Vet Pathology 2

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  4. VME7980 – Research for Doctoral Dissertation

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  5. VEM5164 – Small Anim Pathology

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  6. VME6940 – Supervised Teaching

    College of Veterinary Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Veterinary Anatomic Pathologist
    American College of Veterinary Pathologists

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0001-6148-2531

Areas of Interest

  • Dermatopathology
  • Environmental Toxicology
  • Fungal Diagnostics
  • Skin Microbiome

Publications

Academic Articles

Grants

  1. Interaction between dietary taurine and microbiota sulfur metabolism in the development of colorectal cancer

    Active

    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NCI

  2. Whole Genome Sequencing of Pythium insidiosum, Lagenidium giganteum forma caninum and Paralagenidium karlingii, and Development of a Quantitative Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) for Oomycosis Diagnosis in Dogs

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    AMER KENNEL CLUB CANINE HLTH FOU

  3. Improving the Diagnosis of Cutaneous and Mucocutaneous Oomycosis in FFPE samples and cytological preparations from Dogs, Cats and Horses

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    INTL SOC OF VETERINARY DERMATOPATHOLOGY

  4. Evaluation of the effects of diluted sodium hypochlorite on skin microbiome in dogs with superficial pyoderma and atopic dermatitis: a single blinded, randomized, controlled clinical trial

    Active

    Role:
    Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    AMER KENNEL CLUB CANINE HLTH FOU

  5. Mechanisms of Particulate Matter Driven Infant Respiratory Disease

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    TEXAS A&M UNIV COLLEGE STATION & HSC via NATL INST OF HLTH NIEHS

  6. Role of Bacteria in Colitis-Associated Colon Cancer

    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NIDDK

Education

  1. PhD

    Texas A&M University

  2. Residency in Anatomic Pathology

    Texas A&M University

  3. Master of Science

    Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil)

  4. Veterinary Medicine

    Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil)

Contact Details

Emails:
Business:
aline.hoffmann@ufl.edu
Addresses: