History of AIP Research Staff

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Research leaders  |  Research staff  |  Visiting researchers

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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

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Research staff

Years	Staff member		Years	Staff member		Years	Staff member
1960–72	Benjamin (Ben) T. McDaniel		1996–2002	Jill C. Philpot (Lake)		2009–16	Tabatha A. Cooper
1972–75	Jeffrey (Jeff) F. Keown		2004	Robert (Rob) C. Goodling, Jr.		1978–16	George R. Wiggans
1975–79	Bennet G. Cassell		1972–2005	Rex L. Powell		2012–16	Derek M. Bickhart
1979	Alfred (Al) L. Kuck		2001–06	Ashley H. Sanders		1980–2017	Janice (Jan) R. Wright
1974–82	Evelyn F. Myers		2002–08	Melvin T. Kuhn		1988–2018	Frank A. Ross, Jr.
1968–83	Gerald (Jerry) J. King		2003–08	Laura L. M. Thornton		2002–18	Melvin (Mel) E. Tooker
1984–91	Cynthia A. Ernst		1998–2010	Curtis (Curt) P. Van Tassell		1981–2019	Lillian R. Bacheller
1996–97	Ryan J. Starkenburg		1973–2011	Leigh M. Walton		2003–2020	John B. Cole
1997–99	Lori A. Smith (Andrews)		1970–2011	H. Duane Norman		1980–2021	Suzanne M. Hubbard
1977–2000	William (Wes) E. Shainline, Jr.		1992–2015	Joel (Jay) H. Megonigal, Jr.

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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