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PI Call: JG & KP

• Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
  • JG had meeting in SF with Nathan Wolfe (met at TED)
  • KP knows Joseph Fair (director of global field operations)

• No-cost extension

• Future GBMF funding

• Tom's NSF bioinformatics fellowship situation

• Integrating theory/informatics with data collection (from project beginnings)

• What is future of iSEEM? Our labs?
  • JG's built environment center (Sloan) - environment/microbes part only
  • JE has funding from Sloan to do networking, communications, etc on built environment (microbenet)
  • KP is interested in human aspect and human-ecology interactions
  • HMP
  • Energy consumption/global climate change, epidemiology
  • Health care facilities: Susan Kaplan (U Illinois, Chicago)
  • Not a lot of theory people in built environment field - has been one pathogen at a time

• How will JE and Eisen lab wrap up/continue?