SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Signatories to the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID) As of 23 August 2006. This list does not as yet include all signatories from countries who have made their isolates or sequences available to the international scientific community. (See also http://gisaid.org for updated information) Mona M. Aly Director of the National Veterinary Laboratory, Vice-Director of Animal Health Research Institute, Giza, Egypt Prasert Auewarakul Department of Microbiology, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand David Baltimore 1975 Nobel laureate in medicine, President California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA Peter Bogner Initiator and Director of GISAID, Chief Executive, The Bogner Organization, Santa Monica, USA Peer Bork Senior Scientist, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany Ian Brown Director, International Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, Addlestone, UK Philippe Buchy Head of the Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Ilaria Capua Chair of the Scientific Committee of OFFLU OIE/FAO Network, Head of Virology, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie Legnaro, Padua, Italy Graham Cameron Associate Director at EMBL Outstation, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK Hualan Chen Director, National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory, Animal Influenza Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, PR China Rita Colwell Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA Marie Connett Porceddu Deputy Chief Executive CAMBIA, Head of IP and Research Management, Canberra, Australia Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann Director, Central Laboratory of Animal Pathology, Bingerville, Ivory Coast Nancy J. Cox Director of Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Control of Influenza, Atlanta, Georgia USA György Czifra Director, Department of Virology, National Veterinary Institute of Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden Nirmal Kumar Ganguly Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India Ian D. Gust Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Parkville, Australia Peter C. Doherty 1996 Nobel laureate in medicine, Member St Jude Faculty & University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Renato Dulbecco 1975 Nobel laureate in medicine, Professor at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Catanzaro, Italy Nihad Fejzic Deputy Director, State Veterinary Office, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina Alfonso Garcia Head of Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, National Veterinary Laboratory, Santiago, Chile Takashi Gojobori Director, Center for Information Biology DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan Stuart Hargreaves Principal Director Livestock and Veterinary Services, Harare, Zimbabwe Elfatih B. S. Hashash Director-General of the Animal Wealth General Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture, Gezira State, Sudan Alan Hay Director, National Institute for Medical Research, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, London, UK Tony Joannis Director, Viral Research Department, National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom. Plateau State, Nigeria Michael Johnson Manager Diagnostic Services, The Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Australia Poul Henrik Jørgensen Senior Scientist, National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza, Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, Aarhus, Denmark Hiroshi Kida Director, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, OEI Reference Laboratory for HPAI, Hokkaido, Japan Guus Koch Senior Scientist and Project Leader, Avian Influenza, Central Institute Of Animal Disease Control, Lelystad, the Netherlands Dejan Krnjaic Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Veterinary Directorate, New Belgrade, Republic of Serbia i SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Reinhard Kurth Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany Robert A. Lamb John Evans Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Dept of Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA Joshua Lederberg 1958 Nobel laureate in medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Wilina Lim National Influenza Centre, Government Virus Unit, Hong Kong, SAR China David J. Lipman Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland USA Yukol Lomlamthong Director-General, Department of Livestock Development, Bangkok, Thailand Hisham Maaetah Head of the Central Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Amman, Kingdom of Jordan Ali Safar Maken Ali Veterinary Epidemiologist, Iran Veterinary Organization, FAO Avian Influenza Regional Coordinator for Central Asia, Tehran, Iran Sangkot Marzuki Director of the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Vice-President of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia Thomas C. Mettenleiter President, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Insel Riems, Germany Zenon Minta Director, National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza, National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland A. C. Mishra Director, National Institute of Virology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Pune, India ii Francisco Muzio Director-General, Servicios Ganaderos, Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca, Montevideo, Uruguay Khalid Naeem Project Director, National Reference Laboratory for Poultry Diseases, National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan Barry O’Neil President of the OIE World Organization for Animal Health, Assistant Director-General MAF Biosecurity, Wellington, New Zealand Ab Osterhaus Director, Department of Virology at Erasmus MC, WHO Collaborating Center for Control & Research of Influenza, Rotterdam, the Netherlands John Pasick Director, Avian Diseases Unit National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg, Canada Malik Peiris Director, Department of Microbiology, WHO Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza, University of Hong Kong, SAR China Shimon Perk Director, Avian Laboratory, Veterinary Institute of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, Tel Aviv, Israel Bui Quang Anh Director, National Center for Veterinary Diagnosis, Department of Animal Health, Hanoi, Vietnam Levan Ramishvili Adviser of the Minister of Agriculture, HPAI Emergency Offices Coordinator, Tbilisi, Georgia Zhian S. Ramzi Head of College of Medicine, Suliamani University, Kurdistan, Iraq Olga Zorman Rojs National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza, Veterinary Faculty at the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Steven L. Salzberg Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Horvitz Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, USA Azucena Sánchez Sánchez Director, Avian Pathology Department, Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria, Madrid, Spain Vladimir Savic Director, Croatian Veterinary Institute, Head of the Poultry Centre, Zagreb, Croatia Dennis Senne Poultry Specialist, Diagnostic Virology Laboratory, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, USA John Sulston 2002 Nobel laureate in medicine, Professor at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK David E. Swayne Director, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Athens, USA Masato Tashiro National Institute of Infectious Diseases, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Tokyo, Japan Mustafa Tufan Director, Veterinary Epidemiology and Information Section, General Directorate Protection and ControlMARA, Ankara, Turkey Talantbek Uzakbaev Head, State Veterinary Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Thierry Van den Berg Director, Avian Virology & Immunology, Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre, Brussels, Belgium Harold E. Varmus 1989 Nobel laureate in medicine, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Josef Vitasek Directo, Animal Health and Welfare Department, State Veterinary Administration, Prague, Czech Republic SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Robert G. Webster Department of Infectious Disease, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, WHO Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza, Memphis, USA John Wilbanks Executive Director, Science Commons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Neziha Yilmaz Director of Virology at NIC, Virology Department, Refik Saydam Hygiene Center, Ankara, Turkey Pastor Alfonso Zamora Director, Production and Animal Health, National Centre for Animal and Plant Health (CENSA), Havana, Cuba iii