Eva Sapi Ph.D. is a Professor and Department Chair at the Department of Biology and Environmental Science where she teaches undergraduate and graduate biology courses and carries out Lyme disease research with her graduate students.

Her research interest is to investigate the different forms of Borrelia burgdorferi for the better understanding how Borrelia can hide from the immune system as well as from antimicrobial therapies. Her recent research shows that Borrelia burgdorferi is capable

Sapi E, Balasubramanian K, Poruri A, Maghsoudlou JS, Theophilus, PAS, Socarras KM, Timmaraju AV, Filush KR, Gupta K, Shaikh, S, Luecke DF, MacDonald A, Zelger B. (2016) Evidence of in vivo existence of borrelia biofilm in borrelial lymphocytomas European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/1886.2015.00049 Sapi E, Theophilus, PAS, Burugu D, Luecke DF. (2016) Effect of Rpon, Rpos and Luxs pathways on the biofilm formation and antibiotic sensitivity of Borrelia burgdorferi.