Nathan Wolfe talk at #UCDavis

Notes for talk by Nathan Wolfe at UC Davis. Note - I prefer organizing Storify posts with older material at the top but the default on Storify is to do it with new material at the top and I am sick of switching everything. So - for this post - new material is at the top. Start at the bottom.

  1. Notes for talk by Nathan Wolfe at UC Davis.  Note - I prefer organizing Storify posts with older material at the top but the default on Storify is to do it with new material at the top and I am sick of switching everything.  So - for this post - new material is at the top.  I recommend starting at the bottom.

  2. “@phylogenomics: Wolfe discussing the #DARPA Prophecy program to predict the future evolution of viruses wired.com/dangerroom/201…
  3. Re: Wolfe talk and @phylogenomics RTs. New microbes that infect humans will always come up. Research on this really needs to continue
  4. So true RT @pcronald: Wolfe: Press usually gets science wrong. Scientists need to write books so public can better understand issues
  5. Good question by dandekhar. Why are some hosts more susceptible? How does host specific genetic factors affect spread?
  6. Andy Sih asks question about whether there are any "rules" about which viruses move into humans; Wolfe says some but still learning
  7. RT @pcronald: Wolfe: need poverty alleviation efforts in central Africa. It is shocking that people are still forced to hunt and consume wild game
  8. RT @phylogenomics: Re Wolfe talk - in my paper for PLoS Collection discussed why "Field Guide to the Microbes" could help in prediction http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000224;jsessionid=7FC7C1618CF4C13EBA1BAC42EEF02860
  9. Wolfe: need poverty alleviation efforts in central Africa. It is shocking that people are still forced to hunt and consume wild game
  10. Wolfe: there is NO excuse for our world society allowing large #s of people depend on wild animals for protein
  11. Re Wolfe talk - in my paper for PLoS Collection discussed why "Field Guide to the Microbes" could help in prediction ploscollections.org/article/info%3…
  12. Wolfe: if politicians had known that HIV first spread heterosexually, they might have had been willing to address the spread earlier. Sad
  13. Wolfe discussing the DARPA Prophecy program to predict the future evolution of viruses wired.com/dangerroom/201…
  14. Wolfe: giving an eloquent defense/justification of basic science on virus diversity
  15. Re: Wolfe talk: check out the PLoS collection I edited on "genomics of emerging infectious diseases" http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fissue.pcol.v01.i01
  16. Question for Wolfe from crowd: how can you show that "prevention" worked?
  17. RT @phylogenomics: Wolfe: showing John Snow map re: cholera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_(physician) - asks WWJSD "What would John Snow Do?" today?
  18. Wolfe: showing John Snow map re: cholera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_(physician) - asks WWJSD "What would John Snow Do?" today?
  19. Wolfe: NIH pioneer award funded project on digital epidemiology. Eg: Epidemic IQ to detect outbreaks early. Simply extracted info from media

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Jonathan Eisen

Evolutionary biologist, microbiology & genomics researcher, open science advocate, recovering Harvard/Stanford alum, prankster, cyclist, & professor at UC Davis

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