Biosecurity_Contacts

The National Academies: Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine

This is a micrograph of a blood smear containing Yersinia pestis plague bacteria. Note the characteristic bipolar, "safety-pin"-like appearance of the Y. pestis organisms. People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium, or by handling an infected animal. Content provider: CDC/Dr. Jack Poland

This 2005 photograph of the CDC’s Dr. Terrence Tumpey, one of the organization’s staff microbiologists and a member of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), showed him examining reconstructed 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus inside a specimen vial containing an orange-colored supernatant culture medium. Content provider: CDC. Photo Credit: James Gathany

This picture is a photomicrograph of mild meningitis along with hemorrhage and the presence of Bacillus anthracis in a case of fatal human anthrax. Content provided: CDC/Dr. Marshal Fox

This is a picture of Brucella melitensis colonies. Content provider: CDC/ Courtesy of Larry Stauffer, Oregon State Public Health Laboratory

This is a photograph of Arnold Steigerwalt, a research chemist with the CDC’s Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch (MSPB) in the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), shown here as he was performing a DNA-DNA hybridization analysis in one of the CDC’s laboratories. Content provider: CDC/ Maryam I. Daneshvar, Ph.D. Photo Credit: James Gathany

This photomicrograph shows hepatitis caused by the Lassa virus, using toluidine-blue azure II stain. Content provider: CDC/Dr. W. Winn

Contact Information

• To find information on National Academies’ reports, please go to the National Academies Press website, located at: www.nap.edu. For reports on biosecurity, type the word “biosecurity” without quotes into the search engine. The engine will search full text of National Academies’ reports as well as National Academies’ websites for that term.

• To find information on current projects at the National Academies, please go to The National Academies Current Projects System. You may also want to go to units at The National Academies that work on biosecurity. As a starting point, consider:

o Development, Security, and Cooperation in the Policy and Global Affairs Division

o Board on Life Sciences in the Division of Earth and Life Studies

o Board on Global Health in the Institute of Medicine

• To find information on security-related publications, in general, at the National Academies, please see:

o Transportation Research Board Security-Related Publications

o Hazards and Security Products of the National Academies

• To find information on upcoming events, it is best to first find the current project and then go to that project’s website, where you can find out about that project’s past and future meetings. You can also try The National Academies’ events website, but sometimes the titles of the events are not very descriptive.

• We would be delighted to hear from you with any questions, comments or suggestions about the website or about biosecurity in general. Please email us at biosecurity@nas.edu.

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