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Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Pages 191-198
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Dr. Clements is currently Director of the Tulane/Xavier Vaccine Development/Engineering Project supported by the Department of Defense, co-director of the South Louisiana Institute for Infectious Disease Research, and co-director of the Louisiana Vaccine Center, both collaborative projects between Tulane University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.
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Dr. Alam has been the coordinator of the Diarrheal Disease Epidemiology and Ecology research group and actively involved in molecular epidemiological and ecological surveillance of cholera in Bangladesh, including monitoring of the plankton community dynamics and climate variables in relation to the seasonal epidemics with the aim of developing a predictive model for cholera and other infectious diseases.
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Bruce Budowle is director, Institute of Applied Genetics, and professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center.
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His current efforts focus on the areas of human forensic identification, microbial forensics, and emerging infectious diseases. He is working on microbial forensics topics such as attribution, QA, population genetics, next-generation sequencing technology, and sample collection.
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Dr. Colwell's interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world.
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. Paul Keim is Cowden endowed chair in microbiology and Arizona regents professor, Northern Arizona University.
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Currently he is mainly engaged in the research work on biogrid, parallel indexing, super-large-scaled full-text retrieval technology, a search engine of remote heterogeneous databases, Linux Cluster System, and comprehensive utilization of information technology in the field of biology. Meanwhile, he is in charge of the implementation of a variety of projects, including the China Microbial Resource Database, the Information Network System of CAS Biology Specimen Museum, the Microbial Information Gateway of National Scientific Digital Library, the E-Science Bio-Grid, the National Scientific Data Sharing Platform, as well as the Information Network of Chinese Biotechnology and Industry.
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Smith was editor-in-chief of the Journal of General Virology until 2008 and chairs the World Health Organization's Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research. As of 2009, he remains head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London and is president of the International Union of Microbiological Societies.
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