Honors & Awards
2006 - American Society for Microbiology Division H Lectureship
2006 - Kellet Mid-Career Award, University of Wisconsin
2006 - Ira L. Baldwin Professorship of Bacteriology
2004 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2003 - Keynote Speaker, Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology
2003 - Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
2001 - NIH Merit Awardee, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
1989-95 - Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation
1987-91 - Searle Scholar, Chicago Community Trust
1986-89 - Mallinckrodt Fellow, Washington University Foundation
1983-86 - National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow
Professional Service
2006 - National Advisory Council, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
2006 - NIH NIGMS Pathways to Independence (K99) Study Section
2006 - Session Chair, Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference
2006 - Chair, NIH E. coli K12 Bioinformatics Resources Steering Committee
2006 - Co-organizer, Keystone Nucleic Acids Enzymes Conference
2006 - NIH Molecular Genetics A Study Section
2005 - Site-visit review team for National Cancer Institute, Lab of Chromosome Biology
2005 - Conferee, NIH-ASM Basic Research on Bacteria Task Force
2005 - Session Chair, FASEB Prokaryotic Transcription Conference
2004 - Co-organizer, FASEB Nucleic Acids Enzymes Conferenc
2004 - NSF Prokaryotic Molecular & Cellular Biology Study Section
2003 - Site-visit review team for National Cancer Institute, Lab of Molecular Biology
2002 - NIH CSR Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Study Section Boundaries Team
2001- Editorial board of Molecular Cell
2001-03 - Organizer, Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage Meeting
2001 - Site-visit review team for National Cancer Institute, Lab of Chromosome Biology
2000 - Session Chair, Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting
2000 - NIH Cell Development and Function I Study Section
1999 - Session Chair, Madison Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting
1996-98 - Chair, NIH Microbial Physiology and Genetics I Study Section
1993-98 - NIH Microbial Physiology and Genetics I Study Section
1991-94 - Editorial board of Methods in Molecular and Cellular Biology
1983- Editorial board of DNA and Cell Biology