Dickson despommier biography of william

  • Dickson Despommier, PhD. Date of Birth: June 5, 1940 | Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Dickson D Despommier is an emeritus professor at Columbia University.
  • Dickson D. Despommier is emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University.

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    Dickson Despommier, PhD

    1. The 3rd International Conference on Trichinellosis. Miami, Florida, 1972. Coordinator of meeting and Chairperson, Symposium on Mechanisms of Immunity.

    2. europeisk Workshop on Immunology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1974. “The Antigens of the Stichosome of Trichinella spiralis”. 

    3. American Society for Microbiology (New York Chapter).  Symposium on Intracellular Parasitism held at The Rockefeller University, N.Y.C. 1974. “Trichinellaspiralis: The World’s Largest Intracellular Parasite”.

    4. W.H.O. Post-Graduate Course on The Immune System and Parasites. Nairobi,Kenya.1979. “Immunity to Trichinellaspiralis”. 

    5. The 5th International Conference on Trichinellosis, Noordwak aan Zee, The Netherlands, 1980. Co-chairperson, Session in Immunopathology; presented two papper on the antigens of Trichinella spiralis. 

    6. The 6th International Conference on Trichinellosis , omröstning Morin, Canada 1984. “Antigens”.

    7. The use of affinity-purifie

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    People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

    July 9, 2017
    The people who study parasites for a living, are not exactly like you and I. That they find the elaborate microbes which they study to be fascinating, is not unusual. They ARE fascinating, and not only in the train-wreck, I hate to look but I can't look away sense. They have a fascinating and diverse suite of lives, almost as if several distinctly different species that lived in different environments played leapfrog with one another. They are escape artists, serial killers, and con men all in one.

    However, the people who find them not only interesting, but "I want to spend the rest of my life studying this" fascinating, are just a little bit different than the rest of us. For example, they are the kind of people who decide to put a picture of a tapeworm's mouth right on the cover, zoomed in real close so you can see it in detail. There were other pictures which I won't even descr

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    In 2000, Dickson D. Despommier, then a professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, was teaching a class on medical ecology in which he asked his students, “What will the world be like in 2050?,” and a follow-up, “What would you like the world to be like in 2050?” As Despommier toldThe New Yorker’s Ian Frazier in 2017, his students “decided that by 2050 the planet will be really crowded, with eight or nine billion people, and they wanted New York City to be able to feed its population entirely on crops grown within its own geographic limit.” The class had calculated that by farming every square foot of rooftop space in the city, you could provide enough calories to feed only about two per cent of the 2050 population of New York.

    Urban farming was a good idea, Despommier thought, but his students hadn’t taken it far enough. “What’s wrong with putting the farmer inside the building?” he asked them, remembering that at the time there were “hundreds to perh

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