Over the next three years, scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are leading and collaborating with other institutions on large-scale biopreparedness efforts with other Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment (BRaVE) Initiative-funded research projects. 

PNNL scientists are developing an integrative platform that studies the molecular interactions between hosts and pathogens at a glance to provide rapid information about disease transmission. 

The “Google Earth”-like platform is the model cyanobacteria P. marinus and constantly adapting pathogens to provide scientists with rapid information about the spatial features of host–pathogen interactions, including the ability to look at molecular details. 

In another PNNL-led project, scientists are characterizing the molecular interactions between the bioenergy crop sorghum and the fungal pathogen C. sublineola to provide insights into plant–pathogen interactions to scale up the production of bioenergy crops.