> DeRisi is not a honey bee researcher at all.

No, he is one of the planet's premier biochemists, molecular biologists, and
parasitologists, and his lab focuses on virology, and genomics.

> Perhaps you should do a thorough review of the literature...

I don't need to "review literature", I don't need a scorecard either -
knowing the players is better.

The DeRisi Lab and Joe himself was an invaluable asset in the "CCD" work of
2006-2009.  He worked with Charles Wick (IDVS) of the Edgewood Chemical and
Biological Center and Evan Skowronski (proteomics) at the Aberdeen Proving
Ground on the virus detection aspects of the CCD issue. 

The DeRisi team also developed the microarray chip for all the pathogens
found in arthropods.  Chris Heintz of Project Apis-m liked that a lot.  So
did the rest of the entomology world.  $20 pathogen screening is pretty
cheap.

The team that did the honey bee research and co-authored the paper included
insect virus researcher Michelle Flenniken, a postdoc-fellow in the Andino
lab at UCSF and winner of the Haagen-Daz Postdoc Fellowship in Bee Biology
at UC Davis.  She's currently running her own lab at U Montana, and has
worked nearly exclusively on honey bees since the DeRisi Lab paper.

The DeRisi Lab moved on to more pressing concerns, like malaria.  DeRisi
himself was also a little busy accepting the highest awards anyone in
science can receive, like the 2014 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement
of Science from the National Academy of Sciences.

A "thorough review" includes more than doing a few queries on JSTOR for
keywords.  It includes knowing the players, what else they have done, and
what they didn't publish, and why.  

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