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History of AIP Research Staff
Research leaders |
Research staff |
Visiting researchers
Research leaders
Year |
Research leader |
Career after AIP |
1908 |
Helmer Rabild | Photo
|
Managed milk processing plants in Pennsylvania |
1925 |
Joseph Parker & John McLain |
Became extension specialists |
1929 |
John McDowell |
|
1938 |
Frank Kendrick
|
Established a USDA computing center in Washington, DC |
1962 |
Robert (Bob) H. Miller
|
Became research leader for the Genetics and Management Laboratory and then the Milk Secretion and Mastitis Laboratory; publications |
1963 |
Ernest Corley
|
Became chief of the Dairy Cattle Research
Branch and then assistant to the administrator for the Agricultural Research Service |
1966 |
R. Dean Plowman
|
Became adminstrator of the Agricultural Research Service
and then acting assistant secretary for USDA |
1969 |
Frank N. Dickinson
|
Became chief executive officer of the National
Dairy Herd Information Association (NDHIA) |
1988 |
H. Duane Norman |
Became interim administrator of the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) and later a CDCB technical advisor and industry liaison |
2012 |
George R. Wiggans |
Final acting research leader of the Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory, which was merged with the Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory to form the Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory; became a CDCB technical advisor |
Research staff
Visiting researchers
Years |
Researcher |
Country of origin |
Research project |
Postdoctoral research associates |
1982–83 |
Waheed A. Mohammad |
India |
Effects of pregnancy |
1984–85 |
Thomas (Tom) J. Lawlor, Jr. |
USA |
Effect of selection on parameter estimation |
1988–89 |
Martin Sieber |
Germany |
Conversion formulas |
1991–95 |
Todd R. Meinert |
USA |
Accuracy of data |
1991–94 |
Michael (Mike) M. Schutz |
USA |
Somatic cell score (SCS) evaluation, age adjustment |
1996–97 |
Yang Da |
China |
Genetic markers |
1996–97 |
Curtis (Curt) P. Van Tassell |
USA |
Variance components |
2002–04 |
Elizabeth (Liz) Hare |
USA |
Reproduction and its relationships with other traits |
2009–11 |
Katrina (Katie) M. Olson |
USA |
Multibreed genomic evaluations, breed determination from
genomics, genomic validation, and across-country genomic evaluations |
2012–14 |
Chuanyu Sun |
China |
Genomic evaluation models |
2014–16 |
Kristen Parker Gaddis |
USA |
Genomics of fertility-related traits |
2017–18 |
Heather Bradford |
USA |
Effect of pedigree error on genomic selection |
2018–19 |
Bingie Li |
China |
Feed intake prediction reliabilities and marker effects |
Visiting scientists
|
1974 |
Frank D. Murrill |
USA |
DHIA organization |
1979–80 |
Michael (Mike) Grossman |
USA |
Goat data analysis |
1981 |
Max F. Rothschild |
USA |
Prediction from pedigree data |
1982 |
Abraham Genizi |
Israel |
Lactation adjustments |
1982–83;
1993–94;
2012–13;
2016–17 |
Joel I. Weller |
Israel |
Prediction errors, parity differences;
genetic marker analysis;
a priori granddaughter design to map major genetic effects;
determination of actual polymorphisms responsible for economic trait variation in dairy cattle |
1989 |
Andrzej (Andy) Żarnecki |
Poland |
10-nation Holstein comparison |
1992 |
Wilfried Brade |
Germany |
Dominance and epistatis |
1994 |
Jeong-Koo Lee |
South Korea |
Effects of pregnancy |
1999–2000 |
Theodore (Ted) A. Ferris |
USA |
Test day model |
2000 |
Georgios Banos |
Greece |
Systems for validation of national genetic evaluations (visiting from Interbull in Sweden) |
2017 |
Yang Da |
USA |
Alternative genomic evaluation models |
Visiting
students |
1986 |
Gert J. Nieuwhof |
Netherlands |
Calving interval and herdlife |
1987 |
Pauline M. van Diemen |
Netherlands |
Age adjustment for goats |
1990 |
Frits C. van der Shans |
Netherlands |
International type comparison |
1990 |
Alfons Koorhuis |
Netherlands |
Offspring-parent regressions |
1992, 1993 |
Eric J. H. Klaaskate |
Netherlands |
Productive life |
1993 |
Jan Zuurbier |
Netherlands |
Calculation of inbreeding |
1994 |
Ming-Feng Luo |
China |
Conformation in goats |
1999, 2000 |
Jeanne Bormann |
Belgium |
Test-day data |
2013 |
Chen Yao |
USA |
Multibreed stillbirth evaluation and organization of feed efficiency database |
2013–14 |
Adriana Garcia |
Mexico |
Genomic selection and genetic progress |
2016–17 |
Mariana Berton |
Brazil |
Association of copy number variants with Nelore beef traits |
2016–17 |
Tatiane Chud |
Brazil |
Detection of genomic effects for crossbred dairy cattle |
Compiled by Paul VanRaden
Last Modified:
10/29/2021