Oral Biology Chair
Shannon M Wallet PhD
Shannon Wallet, Ph.D., is Chair and Louis and Marge Atkins Endowed Professor of the Department of Oral Biology. Wallet holds a bachelor’s in medical technology from North Carolina State University and a degree in clinical laboratory science from Duke University. She earned her doctorate in oral biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 and joined UF in 2006 as a tenure-accruing assistant professor in the department of periodontology. She was promoted to associate professor and was awarded tenure in July 2013. After 12 years in various roles with UFCD, Wallet was the associate dean for faculty affairs when she left in 2018 for a position in the Department of Foundational Sciences at the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine. She became the director of basic science and served as interim chair of foundational sciences at ECU, before leaving in 2019 to serve as the associate dean for research for the Adams School of Dentistry Interim chair for the Division of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences.
In addition to her administrative duties as a department chair, Wallet teaches dental students and residents in basic sciences. Wallet also has a robust research program which is focused on mechanisms associated with altered innate immune functions which lead to dysregulated adaptive immunity. Her current research program focuses on the contribution of epithelial cell biology and signaling to innate and adaptive immune homeostasis and dysfunction. Using novel and unique tools, her team is able to evaluate their findings in the human conditions which makes translation of their findings more feasible.
Oral Biology Administration
Cassie N Martin
Lorna Shields
