Professional Service
POSITIONS:
| 1998-Present |
Spencer T. Olin Professor and Chairman, Department of Biology,
Washington University |
| 2005-2007 |
Director, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences,
Washington University |
| 2003-2005 |
Co-Director, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences,
Washington University |
| 1999-2005 |
Director, Washington University, Department of Biology,
Monsanto Corporation Research Program |
| 1992-1997 |
Chairman, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill |
| 1989-1998 |
1st John N. Couch Professor of Biology, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 1986-1989 |
Research Manager, Molecular Biology, Central Research
Department, Du Pont Co., Wilmington, DE |
| 1984-1986 |
Founding Director, Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology,
Oregon State University |
| 1968-1986 |
Assistant to Professor of Botany, Oregon State University,
Corvallis |
HONORS AND AWARDS:
| 1962 |
Honors Graduate, Colgate University |
| 1970-1971 |
Carter Award, Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher of Science,
Oregon State |
| 1974-1975 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Royal Norwegian Society of Science and
Technology |
| 1979 |
Elizabeth P. Richie Distinguished Professor Award, Oregon
State University |
| 1989 |
Distinguished Alumni Award, Ohio University |
| 1998 |
Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge University (UK) |
| 2002 |
Fellow, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK |
| 2002 |
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
|
| 2002 |
Fellow, St. Louis Academy of Science |
| 2007 |
Fellow, American Society of Plant Biologists
|
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected):
| 1991-1994 |
Member Executive Committee and President (1992) American
Society of Plant Biologists |
| 1994-1997 |
1st Chair Public Affairs Committee, American Society of
Plant Biologists |
| 1991-1998 |
Board of Reviewing Editors, Science |
| 1990-1999 |
Scientific Advisory Board, Rockefeller Foundation,
International Program on Rice Biotechnology |
| 1997-2001 |
Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences (Directorate), National Science
Foundation |
| 1998-2005 | Board of Directors, Boyce Thompson Institute
for Plant Research, Inc., Ithaca, NY |
| 1998-2003 | Editor-in-Chief, The Plant Cell
|
| 1999-2004 | Scientific Advisory Board, Biolex, Inc.,
Pittsboro, NC |
| 2002-2005 | Scientific Advisory Board, Chromatin, Inc.,
Chicago, IL |
| 2002-2005 | Scientific Advisory Board, Desert Energy, Inc.,
St. Louis, MO |
| 2001-2004 | Department of Energy Bioscience
Council |
| 2001-2004 | Missouri Botanical Garden Economic Botany
Advisory Board |
| 2003 | Co-Founder and Member, MOgene, LC, St. Louis,
MO |
| 2005 | Consultant, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Mo |
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:
American Society for Cell Biology; Society for Developmental Biology;
American Society of Plant Physiologists; American Society of Plant
Biologists; American Association for the Advancement of Science;
International Society for Plant Molecular Biology; Phycological Society of
America.
INVITED SEMINARS (1999-2008):
| Ohio State University | University of Illinois |
| Purdue University | University of Missouri, St. Louis |
| Indiana University | University of Wisconsin |
| UC, Berkeley | UC, Davis |
| New York University | Leeds University (UK) |
| Penn State University | Carnegie Institution of
Washington |
| Stazione Zoological (Italy) | (Plant Biology &
Embryology) |
| USDA Gene Expression Lab | North Carolina State |
| Texas A & M | Dupont; Wilmington, DE |
| University of Minnesota | University of Georgia |
| University of Delaware | Colgate University |
| University of Virginia | University of Iowa |
| University of Oxford | Rutgers University |
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS (Invited Speaker,
1997-Present):
| 2006, Aug | FASEB Summer Research Conference, Saxton's
River, VT |
| 2006, June | Moss Genomics 2006, Berkeley, CA |
| 2006, June | Society for Developmental Biology
65th Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor MI |
|
2005, July | International Botanical Congress, Vienna,
Austria |
| 2005, July |
Moss Genomics 2005, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 2005, March |
ASPB Midwestern Sectional Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis,
MO |
| 2004, Sept |
Moss Genomics 2004, Freiburg, Germany |
| 2004, July |
Society for Developmental Biology, Calgary, Canada |
| 2003, Sept |
Moss Genomics 2003, St. Louis, MO |
| 2002, June |
Instructor, Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics at Cold Springs Harbor,
NY |
| 2002, Sept |
Moss Genomics 2002, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK |
| 2001, June |
Phycology Society of America, Plenary Speaker, Estes Park,
CO |
| 2001, July |
Instructor, Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics at Cold Springs Harbor,
NY |
| 2001, May |
Moss Genomics 2001, Okazaki, Japan |
| 1999, Dec |
American Society Cell Biology, Plenary Speaker, Washington,
DC |
| 1999, Nov |
Juan March Foundation, Dynamic Extracellular Matrix, Madrid,
Spain |
| 1999, Aug |
International Congress of Botany, Plenary Speaker, St. Louis |
| 1999, June |
European Developmental Biology Congress, Oslo, Norway |
| 1998, Aug |
11th Int'l Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology, Cambridge
University, Cambridge, UK |
| 1998, Jan |
Keystone Symposium, Plant Cell Biology, Co-organizer, Taos,
NM |
| 1997, July |
13th Int'l Congress of Developmental Biology, Plenary
Speaker, Snowbird, UT |
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