Columbia University, Medical Parasitology
University of Notre Dame, Microbiology
Known for
Vertical Farming Medical Ecology of West Nile Virus Urban Sustainable Agricultural Initiatives Emerging Infectious Disease Ecology The Trichinella Page Medica Ecology The Vertical Farm This Week in Virology
Awards
American Medical Student Association National Teaching Award 2003
Scientific career
Fields
parasitology ecology
Institutions
Columbia University Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Thesis
The in vivo and in vitro analysis of acquired resistance to Trichinella spiralis infections in mice. (1967)
Dickson D. Despommier (born June 5, 1940) is an emeritus professor of microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University.[1] From 1971 to 2009, he conducted research on intracellular parasitism and taught courses on parasitic diseases, medical ecology and ecology. Despommier has received media coverage for his ideas on vertical farming.[2][3]
^"Dickson Despommier's Profile". Eoearth.org. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
^Venkataraman, Bina (July 15, 2008). "Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest". The New York Times.
Dickson D. Despommier (born June 5, 1940) is an emeritus professor of microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University. From 1971 to 2009, he conducted...
York: Apple Trees Pub. 14 "Microbiology: An Introduction 9/e" (2006) DicksonDespommier, People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body's Most...
Aesculapius, which is a coarse rod entwined by a single serpent. DicksonDespommier, People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body's Most...
podcasts This Week in Virology; This Week in Parasitism with colleagues DicksonDespommier and Daniel O. Griffin; This Week in Microbiology with Michelle Swanson...
cell is an infected cell in the disease trichinosis discovered by DicksonDespommier. A trichinella larva enters a cell and develops there, probably as...
gravitational physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. June 5 – DicksonDespommier, American microbiologist, ecologist and Professor of Public health...
relatively little harm to the wildlife that live around the facilities. DicksonDespommier speculated that natural resources may be spared from depletion due...
by Vincent Racaniello with co-hosts Brianne Barker, Rich Condit, DicksonDespommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler. The podcast, which began in 2008,...
Detroit Participants: Jocelyn Benson, Jean Case, Susan P. Crawford, DicksonDespommier, Jack Dorsey, Justin Fox, Dan Gilbert, Andrew Keen, David Kirkpatrick...
occurs during the seminars, with notable designers Vito Acconci, DicksonDespommier, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Christian Hubert. Terreform ONE has been...
fantastic with Illumitex". Urban Agriculture (Interview). Interviewed by DicksonDespommier and Vincent Racaniello. Archived from the original on 23 April 2015...
Contemporary Canadian Artist Tony Ruto - CTO of Within Technologies Ltd DicksonDespommier - The Vertical Farming Project Jeffrey Masters - Co-founder of the...
Parasitology. 26 (1): 7–22. doi:10.1080/00034983.1932.11684702. Despommier, Dickson D.; Karapelou, John W. (1987). Parasite Life Cycles. New York, NY:...
(1): 91. 1976. doi:10.1016/0020-7519(76)90017-5. ISSN 0020-7519. Despommier, Dickson D. (1 September 1982). "Trichinellosis". The American Journal of...
Association for Vertical Farming (AVF). Retrieved 11 March 2021. Despommier, Dickson (24 September 2019). "Vertical farms, building a viable indoor farming...
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