Scott P. Layne, Tony J. Beugelsdijk, and C. Kumar N. Patel, Editors a Joseph Henry Press book

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Where the Bucks Stop: A Case for Intermediate-Scale Grants; 3 Tackling Grand Challenges with Powerful Technologies; 4 The Application of Mathematical Models in Infectious Disease Research; 5 Expanding the Worldwide Influenza Surveillance System and Improving the Selection of Strains for Vaccines; 6 Addressing Emerging Infectious Diseases, Food Safety, and Bioterrorism: Common Themes; 7 Laboratory Firepower for AIDS Research; 8 Input/Output of High-Throughput Biology: Experience of the National Canter for Biotechnology Information; 9 Applications of Modern Technology to Emerging Viral Infections and Vaccine Development; 10 Next Steps in the Global Surveillance for Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance; 11 Antibiotic Discovery by Microarray-Based Gene Response Profiling; 12 Sequencing Influenza A from the 1918 Pandemic, Investigating Its Virulence, and Averting Futeure Outbreaks; 13 Ensuring safe Food: An Organizational Perspective; 14 Foodborne Pathogen and Toxin Diagnostics: Current Methods and Needs Assessment from Surveillance, Outbreak Response, and Bioterrorism Preparedness Perspectives; 15 Food Safety: Data Needs for Risk Assessment; 16 Biological Weapons: Past, Present, and Future; 17 National Innovation to Combat Catastrophic Terrorism; 18 Flow Cytometry Analysis Techniques for High-Throughput Biodefense Research; 19 Forensic Perspective on Bioterrorism and the Proliferation of Bioweapons; 20 Biological Warfare Scenarios; 21 Integration of New Technologies in the Future of the Biological Sciences; 22 New Standards and Approaches for Integrating Instruments into Laboratory Automation Systems; 23 High-Throughput Sequencing, Information Generation, and the Future of Biology; 24 Summary and Next Steps; 25 Appendix A: Contributors; 26 Appendix B: Automation in Threat Reduction and Infectious Disease Research: Needs and New Directions (agenda of the April 1999 Colloquium); 27 Index

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Scott P. Layne, Tony J. Beugelsdijk, and C. Kumar N. Patel, Editors a Joseph Henry Press book

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Where the Bucks Stop: A Case for Intermediate-Scale Grants; 3 Tackling Grand Challenges with Powerful Technologies; 4 The Application of Mathematical Models in Infectious Disease Research; 5 Expanding the Worldwide Influenza Surveillance System and Improving the Selection of Strains for Vaccines; 6 Addressing Emerging Infectious Diseases, Food Safety, and Bioterrorism: Common Themes; 7 Laboratory Firepower for AIDS Research; 8 Input/Output of High-Throughput Biology: Experience of the National Canter for Biotechnology Information; 9 Applications of Modern Technology to Emerging Viral Infections and Vaccine Development; 10 Next Steps in the Global Surveillance for Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance; 11 Antibiotic Discovery by Microarray-Based Gene Response Profiling; 12 Sequencing Influenza A from the 1918 Pandemic, Investigating Its Virulence, and Averting Futeure Outbreaks; 13 Ensuring safe Food: An Organizational Perspective; 14 Foodborne Pathogen and Toxin Diagnostics: Current Methods and Needs Assessment from Surveillance, Outbreak Response, and Bioterrorism Preparedness Perspectives; 15 Food Safety: Data Needs for Risk Assessment; 16 Biological Weapons: Past, Present, and Future; 17 National Innovation to Combat Catastrophic Terrorism; 18 Flow Cytometry Analysis Techniques for High-Throughput Biodefense Research; 19 Forensic Perspective on Bioterrorism and the Proliferation of Bioweapons; 20 Biological Warfare Scenarios; 21 Integration of New Technologies in the Future of the Biological Sciences; 22 New Standards and Approaches for Integrating Instruments into Laboratory Automation Systems; 23 High-Throughput Sequencing, Information Generation, and the Future of Biology; 24 Summary and Next Steps; 25 Appendix A: Contributors; 26 Appendix B: Automation in Threat Reduction and Infectious Disease Research: Needs and New Directions (agenda of the April 1999 Colloquium); 27 Index

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Scott P. Layne, Tony J. Beugelsdijk, and C. Kumar N. Patel, Editors a Joseph Henry Press book

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Where the Bucks Stop: A Case for Intermediate-Scale Grants; 3 Tackling Grand Challenges with Powerful Technologies; 4 The Application of Mathematical Models in Infectious Disease Research; 5 Expanding the Worldwide Influenza Surveillance System and Improving the Selection of Strains for Vaccines; 6 Addressing Emerging Infectious Diseases, Food Safety, and Bioterrorism: Common Themes; 7 Laboratory Firepower for AIDS Research; 8 Input/Output of High-Throughput Biology: Experience of the National Canter for Biotechnology Information; 9 Applications of Modern Technology to Emerging Viral Infections and Vaccine Development; 10 Next Steps in the Global Surveillance for Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance; 11 Antibiotic Discovery by Microarray-Based Gene Response Profiling; 12 Sequencing Influenza A from the 1918 Pandemic, Investigating Its Virulence, and Averting Futeure Outbreaks; 13 Ensuring safe Food: An Organizational Perspective; 14 Foodborne Pathogen and Toxin Diagnostics: Current Methods and Needs Assessment from Surveillance, Outbreak Response, and Bioterrorism Preparedness Perspectives; 15 Food Safety: Data Needs for Risk Assessment; 16 Biological Weapons: Past, Present, and Future; 17 National Innovation to Combat Catastrophic Terrorism; 18 Flow Cytometry Analysis Techniques for High-Throughput Biodefense Research; 19 Forensic Perspective on Bioterrorism and the Proliferation of Bioweapons; 20 Biological Warfare Scenarios; 21 Integration of New Technologies in the Future of the Biological Sciences; 22 New Standards and Approaches for Integrating Instruments into Laboratory Automation Systems; 23 High-Throughput Sequencing, Information Generation, and the Future of Biology; 24 Summary and Next Steps; 25 Appendix A: Contributors; 26 Appendix B: Automation in Threat Reduction and Infectious Disease Research: Needs and New Directions (agenda of the April 1999 Colloquium); 27 Index

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