Fungal Diseases An Emerging Threat to Human, Animal, and Plant Health: Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Appendix FSpeaker Biographies
Appendix FSpeaker Biographies
Pages 455-466
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 455... ...
Dr. Bartlett's current research interests are in four thematic areas: environmental sources of infectious disease; mold and building material interactions (the built environment)
|
From page 456... ...
He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland where he investigated bacterial communication mechanisms among constituents of the human dental plaque community. His research emphasis was on the role of the signaling molecule autoinducer-2 in the formation of bacterial biofilms.
|
From page 457... ...
Dr. Daszak's work includes identifying the first case of a species extinction due to disease; the dis covery of chytridiomycosis, the major cause of global amphibian declines; pub lishing the first paper to highlight emerging diseases of wildlife; coining the term "pathogen pollution"; discovery of the bat origin of SARS-like coronaviruses; identifying the drivers of Nipah and Hendra virus emergence; and producing the first emerging disease "hot spots" map.
|
From page 458... ...
Global health necessitates the adoption of a broad perspective: Anthropogenic activity is accelerating global changes, with inevitable decreases in human welfare as ecosystems deteriorate. His research program focuses on the kingdom Fungi, whose impact on global health is increasing as a consequence of global changes.
|
From page 459... ...
He is an editor for Eukaryotic Cell, Fungal Genetics and Biology, and PLoS Pathogens; a board member for PLoS Biology, Current Biology, and Cell Host & Microbe; an advisory board member for the Broad Institute Fungal Genome Initiative and the Department of Energy/JGI Fungal Kingdom project; and cochair/chair for the FASEB Microbial Pathogenesis conference (2011, 2013)
|
From page 460... ...
. GRRC is complementing existing wheat rust surveillance efforts by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, CIMMYT, ICARDA, and national rust diagnostic laboratories in Europe, Australia, North America, and elsewhere, and extends and maintain a wheat rust gene bank to support international resistance breeding and research.
|
From page 461... ...
pathogens of agricultural and horticultural crops, forest trees, and plants in natural grassland communities and has published extensively in the related scientific literature. He currently works on theoretical models concerning the spread of exotic plant pathogens in networks, such as in the horticultural nursery trade, where invasion criteria and the potential size of disease outbreaks depend critically on network structure.
|
From page 462... ...
The primary research effort in the lab is currently Phytophthora species in California coastal forests, with an emphasis on sudden oak death. In conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the lab studies a variety of diseases and their relationship to past and present forest management and conservation issues.
|
From page 463... ...
He is the recipient of NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the Henry Shaw Medal from the Missouri Botanical Garden, National Air and Space Museum Trophy, the William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences, the Mongolian Friendship Medal, the William T Pecora Award from the U.S.
|
From page 464... ...
His current research investigates the impacts of emerging infectious disease on amphibian hosts. With a collaborative team, he studies chytridiomycosis, the lethal amphibian disease caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd)
|
From page 465... ...
With the emergence of white-nose syndrome of bats in the United States, she leads collaborative European research efforts on fungal infections in native bats from Europe.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.