Yemi Adesokan is currently Research Fellow in Genetics in the lab of George Church at Harvard Medical School and a co-founder of  BioWeatherMap.org, a global, environmental and biosurveillance effort aimed at tracking emerging disease threats.  He obtained an undergraduate degree in Biology in 2001 from the University of Houston where as an undergraduate researcher he predicted the first HIV-Integrase/Viral DNA binding pattern. As part of his doctoral thesis in theoretical chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Yemi worked on the development of new force-fields for biomolecular modeling. Yemi, spearheads the genomiccenters of excellence program which includes the multi-drug resistant TBanalysis and capacity building initiatives funded by a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration grant and also co-directs with George Church,the NIH Funded CEGS-MAP Initiative at Harvard Medical School.