Acknowledgments

A Planet of Viruses was funded by the National Center for Research Resources at the National
Institutes of Health through the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), grant no. R25
RR024267 (2007–2012), Judy Diamond, Moira Rankin and Charles Wood, principal investigators.
Its content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official
views of the NCRR or the NIH. I thank the many people who advised this project: Anisa Angeletti,
Peter Angeletti, Aaron Brault, Ruben Donis, Ann Downer-Hazell, David Dunigan, Angie Fox, Laurie
Garrett, Benjamin David Jee, Ian Lipkin, Ian Mackay, Grant McFadden, Nathan Meier, Abbie Smith,
Gavin Smith, Philip W. Smith, Amy Spiegel, David Uttal, James L. Van Etten, Kristin Watkins, Willie
Wilson, and Nathan Wolfe. I am particularly grateful to my SEPA program officer, L. Tony Beck, and
to my editor at the University of Chicago Press, Christie Henry, for making this book possible.