| 2001 |
Awarded American Society for Virology Lifetime Membership |
| 1997 - |
Chair, Institute for Molecular Virology, UW-Madison |
| 1997 |
WARF Faculty Mid-Career Award, UW-Madison |
| 1996 |
Vilas Associate Award, UW-Madison |
| 1991 |
H. I. Romnes Faculty Research Award, UW-Madison |
| 1990 |
Pound Research Award, UW-Madison |
| 1989 |
Waksman Institute of Rutgers University, Distinguished Scientist Award |
| 1988 |
Commendation
from Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center for cooperative work in
the control and eradication programs in South America |
| 1987 |
Alberta Heritage Foundation Visiting Lecturer Award, Calgary, Canada |
| 1981 |
Amersham Corporation Commendation for Continuing Education Program
|
Professional service
|
| 2004 |
Organizer, 7th Int. Symp on Positive-Strand RNA Viruses, San Francisco, CA |
| 2003 |
Guest editor, special edition of Virus Research |
| 2003 |
FDA Site Visit Panel, Laboratory of Methods Development |
|
I
presently serve as a consultant for seven national and international
firms on the production and use of cell-free translation systems;
protein expression with viral IRESes; development and assay of
recombinant vaccines; identification of anti-picornaviral drugs aimed
at specific viral proteases; computer based-methods of sequence
analysis, and topological assessments of RNA folding patterns. |
| 1999 - |
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Executive Committee |
| 1998 |
NIH Research Panel on Polio Eradication |
| 1997-02 |
Am. Type Culture Collection, Virology Task Force, Virology Advisory Board |
| 1994, 2001 |
Organizer, Am. Society of Virology 13th & 20th Annual Meetings, Madison, WI |
| 1993 - |
Associate Editor, Virology |
| 1991 |
NIAID Task Force on Microbiology and Infectious Diseases |
| 1991 - |
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, ASV representative |
1988-92, 1999,
2001-02 |
NIH
study section member (Experimental Virology); Ad Hoc 2001, 2002,
Immunology study section, 2001, Virology study section, 1999, 2001 |
| 1984 - |
Ad Hoc
grant reviewer for NIH, NSF, ACS, USDA, Swiss Nat. Foundation, Canadian
Res. Council, Singapore Nat. Sci. Foundation, Hughes Medical
Foundation, Am. Heart Association |
| 1975 - |
Reviewer for J.
Virology, Archives of Virology, Virology, Cell, J. Molecular Biology,
EMBO Journal, PNAS, Science, Nature, Virus Research, Biochemistry |