This year, Academic Planning Council members are being elected in the Animal Sciences Division, Basic Sciences Division, and Plant Sciences Division. These newly elected members will serve on the Academic Planning Council for three years beginning in the fall of 2008.
All CALS faculty may vote in the Animal Sciences, Basic Sciences and Plant Sciences Divisions. Each faculty member may vote for one candidate in each division. The candidates by division are:
| Animal Sciences | Basic Sciences | Plant Sciences |
|---|---|---|
Dr. Weigel has served in leadership roles within the dairy cattle genetics industry as well as the department of Dairy Science and CALS. He currently chairs the CALS Biometry Committee, CALS General Awards Committee, CALS Pound Research Award Committee, the CALS Farm Industry Short Course Director search committee, and the CALS Farm Industry Short Course committee. Within the Department of Dairy Science, he chairs the Awards Committee and the Outreach Teaching Committee. He is also the Dairy Science representative to the Faculty Senate. Dr. Weigel’s commitment to leaders’ roles makes him an excellent nominee for CALS APC.
As an associate professor and Extension Genetics Specialist in the Department of Dairy Science, Kent develops educational programs for dairy producers and industry partners that focus on genetic improvement of dairy cattle and initiate structural changes that will enhance genetic progress at the state, national, and international levels. He collaborates with county-based Extension faculty and other specialists in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest. He teaches undergraduates and Farm and Industry Short Course students, and mentors graduate students in the animal genetics program. Kent also conducts dairy genetics and genomics research to improve the economic status of farmers and the health and productivity of their cattle.
Professor Brian G. Fox is the Marvin J. Johnson Professor of Fermentation Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Fox joined UW-Madison in 1993 as Co-Director of the Institute for Enzyme Research. Prof. Fox uses biochemical, catalytic, and structural methods to study the mechanism of action of multiprotein completes and redox-active enzymes. The NIH, NSF, DOE, SBIR, private foundations, and industry have funded his research. Dr. Fox has authored over 140 peer-reviewed primary research articles and book chapters. He has trained 17 PhD students, 17 post-doctoral fellows, 25 academic staff scientists, and many undergraduates. Three post-doctoral fellows are now faculty members in Chemistry and Biochemistry departments around the USA, and moth other trainees are research scientists in private biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
Dr. Fox is a Co-Investigator of the UW Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, an NIGMS Protein Structure Initiative project to develop methods for high-throughput cloning, expression testing, cell growth, and protein purification as prerequisites for X-ray and NMR structure determinations. Dr. Fox received the 1994 Searle Scholars Awards from the Chicago Community Trust, the 1994 Shaw Scientist Award from the Milwaukee Foundation, the 1997 Pound Research Award, a 1998 NSF Early Career Development Awards, and a 1999 award as a Scholar in the Dupont Aid to Education Program. He is a recipient of the 2002 H.I. Romnes Fellowship, and the 2008 Vilas Associates Award, both from the University of Wisconsin. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Protein Expression and Purification and the CRC Critical Review of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is a member of the American Chemical Society since 1981, and also a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Chemistry sections of this society. Dr. Fox has served as a permanent member of NIH study sections and NSF review panels, and has served as an ad hoc reviewer for the DOE, the USDA, and several private foundations. Dr. Fox has been associated with the Biotechnology Training Program since acceptance as a trainer in 1994, becoming director in 2008. Dr. Fox has also served on a UW all-campus committee addressing individual financial conflicts of interest since 1999, and has been chair of this committee since 2005.
Patrick Masson has been a Faculty Member of the Laboratory of Genetics since 1991. He obtained a Ph.D. in Agronomy in 1986 from the "Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques", Gembloux, Belgium. His postdoctoral training was in Plant Molecular Genetics at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD. Since joining the Faculty at UW-Madison, Masson has developed a NASA- and NSF-funded research program aimed at characterizing the molecular mechanisms that govern root growth behavior in response to mechanical stimuli. More recently, he has also been involved in a new Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)-funded collaborative research program aimed at characterizing the molecular mechanisms that govern secondary cell wall formation in plants. His teaching responsibilities include the Molecular Genetics section of a basic undergraduate-level General Genetics course (GEN466), and most of a graduate-level Plant Genetics course (GEN840). Masson has served on multiple CALS, campus, national and international committees. In CALS, he was a member of the Research Advisory Committee (1999-2002), the Facilities Committee (2001-2004) and the Steering Committee for Plant Science Graduate Recruiting Program (2002-2005). At the campus level, he serves on the Graduate School Research Committee (2006-2009), the Chemical Safety Committee (2008-2009), and is a Faculty Senator (2004-1010). At the National level, Masson has served on multiple peer review panels and study sections for US/AID (1990), NASA (1992-1994; 2000; 2004), NASA/ESA (1995), NSF (2003; 2007) and NIH (2004). He was a Panel Evaluator for the ERC Starting Grants Program in 2007, and was the member of a NASA Site-Visit Peer-Review Panel (2004). He serves on the American Society of Gravitational and Space Biology Editorial board (2005-2007), is an Associate Editor for Plant Signaling and Behavior, and is a member of the International Society of Plant Neurobiology Steering Committee (2008) and of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Adolph E. Gude Jr Award (2007-2013) and Foreign Corresponding Member (2007-2011) Committees. He was recently elected Associate Member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
Andrew is a professor in the department of Plant Pathology and a faculty member in the Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics program. His past university service includes: 3 years on the Biological Sciences Divisional Committee, CALS Research Committee (3 years, plus 1 year as chair), and 1 year on the CALS APC (sabbatical replacement for Irwin Goldman). He has taught PP123 Plants, Parasites and People (for non-majors), PP517 Plant Disease Resistance (classical and molecular basis of resistant plant varieties), PP 505 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. His research investigates the molecular basis of plant disease resistance.
A.J. is an associate professor in Horticulture with a focus on vegetable cropping and storage management systems. He has an Extension/Research appointment, and provides leadership to multiple facets of the potato, vegetable, and other agricultural industries across the state of Wisconsin. His program focuses on developing and implementing crop specific field and storage management practices that promote yield and more importantly, quality of numerous vegetable crops. In addition, his program focuses on development of sustainable production systems, including research on organic vegetables.