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Appendix F: Speaker Biographies
Appendix F: Speaker Biographies
Pages 219-228
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Casagrande led a team of biologists and engineers at Surface Logix, a Boston-based biotechnology firm, to develop and test real-time detectors for biological agents. In his most recent position, he led the homeland security practice at Abt Associates, one of the nation's largest public policy research and consulting firms.
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He is currently research director and group leader at FOI for biological analyses, a group involved in both research and applied activities in the field of molecular diagnostics, bioinformatics, ecology, and epidemiology of pathogenic bacteria. Fernando González-Candelas is full professor of genetics, Department of Genetics, University of Valencia.
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for the Texas State Guard Maritime Regiment and is a certified concealed handgun instructor, wildland firefighter, diver, and armorer.
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Kadavy has developed very popular and effective training programs in Hazardous Materials Response and Applied Foundational Biology (for response units)
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Morse was a professor of microbiology and infectious diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health and at Oregon Health Sciences University. In 1984, the CDC recruited him to direct their sexually transmitted disease research program.
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During his career, he was assigned to the FBI Laboratory as a forensic biologist, research scientist, department head, and deputy director at various times. Interspersed with his laboratory assignments were four assignments in the bureau's technical investigative program: as a program manager for complex operations planning, Intelligence Division; unit chief for a technology development and deployment group, Technical Services Division; squad supervisor, New York Field Office; and deputy director, Investigative Technology Division.
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He joined Virginia Tech in December 2004, where he now works in the areas of life science research program development, microbial systems biology, microbial forensics, biosecurity, and university strategic planning. He has served or still serves on the Board of Life Sciences, National Research Council; DTRA's Threat Reduction Advisory Committee; the Defense Intelligence Agency's BioChem 2020, the FBI's Scientific Working Group on Microbial Genomics and Forensics, and a new standing committee of the National Academy of Sciences for the Department of Homeland Security's National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center.
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Professor Primorac is a pioneer in the application of DNA analysis for identification of bodies in mass graves and one of the founders of forensic DNA analysis in the region. He authored more than 100 scientific papers and abstracts in clinical medicine, molecular genetics, forensic science, population genetics, genetic legacy of Homo sapiens sapiens, and education, science, and technology policy.
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Dr. Watanabe's research interest areas are in understanding the molecular pathogenesis of enteric bacteria including enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Shigella, and development and application of molecular epidemiological methods for outbreak investigations.
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He is vice director of the Chinese Society of Microbiology and a member of the National Evaluation Committee for Food Safety Risk Assessment. He is also associate editor for PLOS NTD, Microbiologica Sinica, Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine, Journal of Zoonosis, and editor for Pathogens and Diseases, New Microbes and New Infections, and Chinese Journal of Microbiology and Immunology.
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