FMD

The FMD Laboratory was formed in 2004, primarily for the purpose of developing models and systems for use in diagnosis, prevention, control, eradication, and surveillance of foot-and-mouth disease. The Laboratory developed the Disease BioPortal, which has been operational globally since January 2007. Version 3.0 of the BioPortal, which is now referred to as the Disease BioPortal, was released in March 2010. Version 3.0 of the Disease BioPortal allows access to, and display of, data for greater than 40 animal diseases and syndromes reported by a number of agencies and organizations. The FMD Laboratory also operates the FMD News and the RVF News (subscription upon request), which provide real-time global news items about these diseases to subscribers, currently at no charge. Laboratory personnel include faculty, adjuncts, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergarduate students, analysts, programmers, and data managers. Interests and expertise include disease expertise, mathematical, Bayesian, and epidemiological modeling, clinical and laboratory diagnostic methods, computer and geographic information systems, infectious disease epidemiology, economics, and international veterinary medicine. The Laboratory is a collaborating member of the Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Research Alliance and will soon become a reference center for modeling for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Laboratory is supported in part by the University of California and the Agricultural Experiment Station, and by various granting and contracting agencies and groups. The Laboratory is under the direction of Dr. Mark Thurmond and Dr. Andres Perez.

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• Capture and disseminate FMD and other infectious animal disease-related data and information.
• Develop FMD and other infectious animal disease databases.
• Develop models and detection systems for real-time global surveillance systems for animal disease.
• Map regional and global distributions of infectious animal diseases, and of projected risks of disease.
• Develop models to predict disease movement and transmission, and molecular changes in infectious disease agents.
• Assess risks of infectious animal diseases associated with management practices and other factors.
• Model competing strategies for biosecurity, control, and eradication.
• Utilize web portal technology to transfer information and models in real time.

FMD Lab Contacts:
Dr. Mark Thurmond (mcthurmond@ucdavis.edu)
Dr. Andrés Perez (amperez@ucdavis.edu)

Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Room 1044 Haring Hall
Davis, CA 95616 U.S.A.

Lab: (530) 752-0336
Fax: (530) 752-1618