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Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 137-144
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He has partici pated in a number of National Research Council studies.
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Breeze received his veterinary degree in 1968 and his PhD in veterinary pathology in 1973, both from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He was engaged in teaching, diagnostic pathology, and research on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases at the University of Glasgow Veterinary School from 1968 to 1977 and at Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine from 1977 to 1987, where he was professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Pathology.
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His research interests are in the development of computational algorithms for genome-sequence analysis. He is the author of several widely used software tools for biologic sequence analysis, including a software package called HMMER; a coauthor of the Pfam database of protein domains; and a coauthor of the book Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
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Levinson, a 25-year veteran of science policy at the national level, is the director of the Arizona State University (ASU) Washington office and is responsible for special projects and research initiatives in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs.
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He joined Oklahoma State University in 2008 from the Investigation and Diagnostic Centre of Bi osecurity New Zealand, in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, where he was principal adviser in virology.
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His team developed signature targets for multiple human pathogens that were used at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games under the BASIS program and later adapted for use nationwide in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) BioWatch program.
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Mr. Carl-Gustav Anderson is a senior program assistant with the Board on Life Sciences of the National Research Council.
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