Some disclosures about the funding for this project and people involved
Funding
- microBEnet is wholly funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Personal disclosures
Jonathan Eisen, the PI on the grant from the Sloan Foundation, reports:
- I am a Professor at the University of California, Davis and hold Adjunct Appointments at the Johns Hopkins University and the DOE Joint Genome Institute.
- I am involved with the Public Library of Science in multiple ways, and my brother was a co-founder. I receive no money from them (although in theory I can get compensated for expenses).
- My wife worked for Mendel Biotechnology many years ago and we still own a small amount of their stock.
- I make some money from sales of my Evolution textbook.
Hal Levin, co-PI on the grant from Sloan Foundation, reports that:
- I am the principal of Building Ecology Research Group, Santa Cruz, California
- I am Executive Director and manage the Secretariat for the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, a non-profit, international scientific and professional society.
- I am President of the Indoor Air Institute, a California non-profit corporation
- I receive retirement income from the University of California from former appointments at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- I am currently a part-time employee at UC Riverside, developing an update to the Indoor Environmental Quality Research Roadmap for the California Energy Commission
- My wife is Professor of philosophy of law at the Catholic University in Piacenza, Italy, and also teaches in the Biotechnology Program at the University of Milan.
David Coil is a post-doc working on the microBEnet project and reports:
- I am a part-time post-doc working in the lab of Jonathan Eisen at the University of California, Davis
- I am a director of and contractor for a non-profit organization called Ground Truth Trekking.
