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Animal Health, Soils, Water, & Energy

October 15-17, 2007 in Washington, DC

Meeting 5 Full Briefing Materials (658 kB)

Presentations (Please note file sizes)

• Phillip Benfey: Roots and African Agriculture (2.2 MB)
• Roelof Bruintjes: Review of Weather Modification Via Cloud Seeding (3.1 MB)
• Roelof Bruintjes: Rainfall monitoring and Weather Prediction with a focus on Africa (3.4 MB)
• Ina Dobrinski: Germline Stem Cell Transplantation (1.6 MB)
• David Furukawa: Can Water Desalination Aid Farmers in Arid Regions? (263 kB)
• Jo Handelsman: The New Science of Metagenomics (1.5 MB)
• Raul Lobo: Existing and Potential Applications of Zeolites in Water Treatment and Agriculture (392 kB)
• Vijay Modi: Technologies to benefit Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Energy (1.7 MB)
• Charles Nicholson: Integrative, Systems-Oriented Modeling for Agricultural Intervention Assessment (314 kB)
• Dev Niyogi: Integrating Remote Sensing Products To understand hydrology, forecast climate, and predict rainfall (5.3 MB)
• Arthur Nozik: Energy Crisis, Global Climate Change and Solar Photon Conversion (5.7 MB)
• Bill Raun, John Solie, & Marvin Stone: Remote Sensing Technologies for Managing Soil Nutrients and Plant Health (7.8 MB)
• Jess Reed: Utilization and Development of Ruminant Feed Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (1.6 MB)
• Jayne Robinson: Quorum Sensing-Related Interplay Between Plants and Bacteria (1.6 MkB)
• Joel Schindall: New [Old] Technologies for Energy Storage (698 kB)
• Joel Schindall: Battery (689 kB)
• Paul Schreiner: Mycorrhizal Fungi (3.1 MB)
• Don Slack: Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) (580 kB)
• Bob Thresher: Wind Energy’s Potential to Transform Agriculture in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia (2.7 MB)
• Eric Triplett: A Nitrogen Story Microbe 2:372-373; 2007 (948 kB)
• Wim Vermaas: Photosynthetic Organisms for Biofuels Production (2.6 MB)
• Wim Vermaas: Artificial Photosynthesis (2.2 MB)
• Bryan White: Emerging Technologies to Benefit Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Rumen Microbiology (1.8 MB)
• Martin Wiedmann: Technologies and approaches to reducing post-harvest spoilage of meat and milk and to assure the safety of the animal food supply (68 kB)

Background Articles (Please note file sizes)

Animal Health

• 16S rDNA library-based analysis of ruminal bacterial diversity (579 kB)
• Appropriate starter culture technologies for small-scale fermentation in developing countries (159 kB)
• Basic requirements for the transfer of fermentation technologies to developing countries (100 kB)
• Building PulseNet International: An Interconnected System of Laboratory Networks to Facilitate Timely Public Health Recognition and Response to Foodborne Disease Outbreaks and Emerging Foodborne Diseases (154 kB)
• Combating Tropical Infectious Diseases: Report of the Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries Project (110 kB)
• Ensuring good governance to address emerging and re-emerging animal disease threats: supporting the Veterinary Services of developing countries to meet OIE international standards on quality (79 kB)
• Estimating the Burden of Acute Gastroenteritis, Foodborne Disease, and Pathogens Commonly Transmitted by Food: An International Review (100 kB)
• FAO: Foodborne disease (54 kB)
• Fermentations in World Food Processing (210 kB)
• Fertility and Germline Transmission of Donor Haplotype Following Germ Cell Transplantation in Immunocompetent Goats (294 kB)
• Genetically enhanced cows resist intramammary Staphylococcus aureus infection (315 kB)
• Impact of small scale fermentation technology on food safety in developing countries (181 kB)
• Major Foodborne Illness Causing Viruses and Current Status of Vaccines Against the Diseases (142 kB)
• Male germ cell transplantation in livestock (196 kB)
• Molecular Subtyping and the Transformation of Public Health (82 kB)
• New directions in foodborne disease prevention (277 kB)
• Opportunities to improve fiber degradation in the rumen: microbiology, ecology, and genomics (928 kB)
• Plant-made vaccines: biotechnology and immunology in animal health (115 kB)
• Production of vaccines and therapeutic antibodies for veterinary applications in transgenic plants: an overview (266 kB)
• Public investment in strengthening Veterinary Services and other food safety authorities: issues affecting developed and developing countries (71 kB)
• Reducing the Carriage of Foodborne Pathogens in Livestock and Poultry (137 kB)
• Review of methods for modeling systems evolution (632 kB)

Soils

• Chemical evolution and ammonia in the early Earth's atmosphere (363 kB)
• Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequence of the plant growth-promoting bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 (467 kB)
• Infrared Spectrascopy-enabling and evidence-based diagnostic surveillance approach to agricultural and environmental management in developing countries (1.6 MB)
• Metagenomics: Application of Genomics to Uncultured Microorganisms (1.6 MB)
• Microbial interactions in the mycorrhizosphere and their significance for sustainable agriculture (458 kB)
• Mycorrhizas and tropical soil fertility (263 kB)
• Nitrogen Fixation in Wheat Provided by Klebsiella pneumoniae 342 (412 kB)
• Photocatalytically induced fixation of molecular nitrogen by near UV radiation (307 kB)
• Regulation of Enteric Endophytic Bacterial Colonization by Plant Defenses (971 kB)
• Signal Mimics Derived from a Metagenomic Analysis of the Gypsy Moth Gut Microbiota (479 kB)

Water

• Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research (289 kB)
• Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap (174 kB)

Energy

• Advanced Wind Technology: New Challenges for a New Century (836 kB)
• Biodiesel from microalgae (388 kB)
• Biofuels Chart (645 kB)
• Bio-inspired constructs for sustainable energy production and use (828 kB)
• Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis. 2 (642 kB)
• Fundamentals and Applications of Quantum Confined Structures (987 kB)
• Handbook of Microalgal Culture: Biotechnology and Applied Phycology (4.1 MB)
• Molecular genetics of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Principles and possible biotechnology applications (980 kB)
• Photosynthesis and Respiration in Cyanobacteria (159 kB)
• Powering the planet: chemical challenges in solar energy utilization (179 kB)
• Quantum Structured Solar Cells (933 kB)
• Saying Goodbye to Batteries (61 kB)
• Solar Cells Based on Quantum Dots: Multiple Exciton Generation and Intermediate Bands (415 kB)
• Solar Energy Conversion (1.2 MB)
• Synthesis of Transportation Fuels from Biomass: Chemistry, Catalysts, and Engineering (1.5 MB)
• The three-dimensional structure of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (1.2 MB)