Professor                                                                                             

Department of Forestry                                                                                      

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: 517-355-9597

Fax: 517-432-1143

QUALIFICATIONS:

B.S.   1979        Biology of Natural Resources, Emphasis Genetics (with highest honors), College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley.

Ph.D.  1983       Population Genetics, Department of Genetics (Major Professor R. W. Allard), University of California, Davis.

HONORS & AWARDS:

Ø       National Merit Scholar, 1975

Ø       University of California Alumni Scholarship, 1975

Ø       California State Scholarship, 1975-1979

Ø       Herbert Kraft Memorial Scholarship, 1978

Ø       Jastro-Shields Graduate Research Fellowship, UC Davis 1980

Ø       National Institutes of Health Doctoral Traineeship, 1979 to 1982

Ø       Who's Who in the West, 1994-1995, “ in the Mid-West, 1995-1996, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

7/02 to present              Full Professor

                                    Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

7/97 to 6/02                   Associate Professor

Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

9/94 to 6/97                   Assistant Professor

Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

8/95 to present              Visiting Professor and Academic Advisor

Open Research Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology,

Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China.

1/92 to 8/94                   Assistant Research Professor

Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside.

9/84 to 12/91                          Postdoctoral Geneticist

Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside.

9/83 to 9/84                   Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens.

9/79 to 3/83                   Teaching Assistant

Department of Genetics, University of California, Davis.

SELECTED GRANTS:

1/93 to 1/96                   National Institutes of Health (Sole Principal Investigator)

                                    "Spatial Correlations of Population Genetic Variation", $281,930

10/95 to 9/98                 McIntire-Stennis "Managing the Genetic Diversity of Michigan Pines"(three grants, total $73,204).

7/97 to 6/98                   MSU Biotechnology Research Center  "Microsatellite Markers for Pinus resinosa, ($11,000).

8/95 to 8/98                   MSU Plant Breeding and Genetics Program "DNA Diversity in Red Pine" ($57,168 total).

1/99 to 9/02                   MSU MAES Disciplinary Research Program “Statistical    Computing in Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Genetic and    Ecological Data” ($75,000 total).

10/98 to 9/00                 McIntire-Stennis “Mating system and genetic structure within Populations of Pinus strobus“ (two grants, total $51,324).

10/99 to 9/00                 McIntire-Stennis “Species wide distribution of genetic variation for Pinus resinosa ($25,920).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Panelist, National Science Foundation, DEB, panels 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2000.

Panelist, National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Nov. 1999.

Panelist, USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program, 2000.

Associate Editor, Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, since 1998.

REVIEWER FOR:

Genetics, Evolution, American Naturalist, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Heredity, American Journal of Botany, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Hereditas, Annals of Botany, Forest Science, Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics Journal of Ecology, Ecological Modelling, Annales Botanici Fennici, Biochemical Genetics, Theoretical Population Biology, Canadian Journal of Zoology, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Journal of Ecology, Genome, Molecular Ecology, Heredity

(Total over 150 papers in the past thirteen years)

Princeton University Press; Sinauer Assoc. Inc.; Brooks Pub. Co. Inc.

§         International collaborations in France, Korea, China and Sweden.

§         Over 740 citations of my papers listed in the Science Citation Index. 

§         Over 70 presentations/invited papers.

§         46 refereed publications, one book.

§         Principal organizer, Symposium "Dynamic Spatial Models", ISEM'95, Beijing.

§         Principal organizer, Symposium "Space-Time Models", ECOSUMMIT96, Copenhagen.

§         Principal organizer, Workshop "Spatial and Space-Time Methods",  European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

AFFILIATIONS AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY:

            Genetics (interdepartmental graduate program)

            Plant Breeding and Genetics (interdepartmental graduate program)

Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior (interdepartmental graduate program)

            Biometry Group

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Ø       Xi Sigma Pi

Ø       Genetics Society of America

Ø       Society for the Study of Evolution

Ø       European Society for Evolutionary Biology

Ø       Botanical Society of America