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The Wall Street Bio Systematics Unit is

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part of the one health branch at Rare .

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Uh We're part of rare , but we are

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housed at a Smithsonian Institution

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facility . Benefits of this

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collaboration uh include access to uh

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collections from all kinds of different

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organisms uh beyond just our arthropod

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specimen . So it broadens our scope

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provides us access to a wide range of

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scientists . If we didn't archive our

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uh our , our results from surveillance

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over the years . Every time we went to

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a new place , we would start from

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scratch and you'd have to perform new

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collections and , and , and really uh

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uh establish a new baseline every time

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we go to a new place . Now we can

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leverage what we've learned from the

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past and then everything we collect new ,

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just updates that picture . Uh But

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that's really hard to do if there's no

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baseline . One of the most well known

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products uh to be developed using the

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collections . Here is a , is a website

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called vector map . Uh Now , the

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original impetus for vector map was

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literally a question of what happens .

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What does it look like when we map

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museum collections uh across the world ?

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That had never been done before . Um

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And , and once we did that , we

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realized that system was a great way to

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integrate other form , other sources of

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data as well . And so , not only can we

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integrate museum collections but that

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we can integrate active surveillance

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archives of archive of surveillance

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data from other sources . And we , and

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we build a clear picture of disease

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risk over time .