The University of New Mexico
Museum of Southwestern Biology
Museum of Southwestern Biology

The Museum of Southwestern Biology is a research and teaching facility in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico.

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Museum of Southwestern Biology
1 University of New Mexico
MSC03-2020
Albuquerque, NM 87131

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University of New Mexico
302 Yale Blvd NE
CERIA 83, Room 204
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PICANTE!

Overview The Challenge Partners Peppers Team Science Education

The PICANTE Challenge...

... Is to develop a proactive (predictive) model to integrate diverse data from pathogens, wild hosts, and the changing human/environment interfaces. We propose to leverage

  • samples and informatics from biodiversity infrastructure.
  • high-throughput pathogen screening pipelines
  • informatics networks to identify high-risk pathogens, and social, environmental, biological features contributing to pandemic risk
  • interface signatures allow generalizable predictions, real-time geovisualization, and international scalability for action in communities and in the policy arena.
  • modeling approaches (genomic, geo-spatial, mathematical and agent based) to interpret, analyze and communicate data from vast biorepositories to predict the next pandemic.
  • the DAMA protocol (document, assess, monitor, and act)

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