Daniel Janies, Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics, is an invited speaker at the “Symposium Emerging Infections, Microbial Threats to Health and the Microbiome” being hosted by the National Academy of Sciences Dec. 11-12.
The symposium will include national and international leaders from academia and government who will assess the progress made on the surveillance, detection and responses to emerging, reemerging and novel infectious diseases in humans, plants and animals. The participants also will discuss how our appreciation of the microbiome and microbial ecology has changed in the 20 years since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s reports on “Emerging Infections” in 1992 and “Microbial Threats to Health” in 2003.
Janies will discuss his research, including “SUPRAMAP: Weather Maps for Infectious Diseases Based on Analysis of Genomic and Geographic Data.” Keynote speakers at the symposium are Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.