Academic Curriculum Vita

Professor of Biology, University of Idaho
chuckstaben@gmail.com
208-997-8422 (cell)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

University of Idaho  

Professor of Biology, (June 2019-present)

  • Consultant, Education Insurance Corporation
    EIC is developing a novel product, American Dream Insurance, that protects students’ postgraduation earnings, de-risks student debt, and can provide an enrollment, retention and graduation incentive.
  • Consultant/Coordinator for Opioid Epidemic Report, APLU (Association of Public and Land Grant Universities)-working with Sheila Martin, VP for Community and Public Engagement on report of member university activities and national needs
  • Biochemistry II, Spring 2020

President, (March 2014-June 2019)

  • Member, Council on Competitiveness
  • 12,000 students, 2000 employees, $450 million budget, statewide land grant university, Carnegie R2
  • Access/Enrollment initiatives:  statewide Direct Admissions (2018 SHEEO Agency Award), Free resident application processing, Durable Admissions (military, mission students)
  • Research funding increased 18% from FY14 to $111.2M in FY18
    • New intellectual property, contracting practices resulted in improved relations, enhanced public/private partnerships
    • Established UI TedX and SAS (Short and Sweet) research talks-general audience
  • Record fundraising; $42.8M in FY18; largest cash gift to UI ($10M) for novel engineered timber arena project ($52M, under construction)
  • Established Latino Advisory Council, guided pathway programs (Caminos al Futuro), named Man of the Year by Hispanic Commission of Idaho
  • Moved from Sun Belt (FBS) to Big Sky (FCS) in football
  • Doubled size of medical education program (WWAMI) from 20 to 40 students/year
  • Established full 3-year law program in Boise (existing program in Moscow); 60 students per year in each program
  • Navitas, international program provider; increased undergraduate international students
  • New science building ($40M), first since 2003; renovated Education Building (1965)

University of South Dakota

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs (2008-14)

  • Student enrollment 10,000; budget of $40M, 350 faculty
  • Distance education growth of 15% per year
  • Developed Responsibility Center Management (RCM) Budget Model

University of Kentucky

Vice President for Research, Acting (2006-7)

  • $300M research portfolio, $45M budget, 400 employees

Associate Vice President for Research (2005-2008)

Chair or Acting Chair, Biology Department (2000-4)

Professor of Biology, (2007-8), Associate Professor (1995-2007), Assistant Professor (1989-95)

Director, Undergraduate Studies for School of Biological Sciences (1996-99)

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, CA, Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1984) 

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, B.S. in Biochemistry (1978).

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Biology Department (1987-1989).  (Dr. Charles Yanofsky)

Chiron Research Laboratories, Emeryville, CA Virology Dept., (1985-1986) (Dr. Dino Dina)

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs (2008-2014)

University of South Dakota

  • Worked directly with President to oversee all academic matters at University of South Dakota, serve as institution’s second-in-command
  • Worked within South Dakota Regental system on all system-wide academic matters
  • Worked with peer Vice Presidents of Research, Student Services, Finance, Administration and IT, Health Affairs on all University priorities and programs
  • Direct budget, program, personnel responsibility for Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Business, Education, Fine Arts, Law, Libraries, Graduate School, Division of Continuing and Distance Education, Registrar, Global Studies, Academic and Career Advising, Program Assessment, Institutional Diversity, Center for Teaching and Learning, Honors Program offices.
  • Overall budget responsibility approximately $40M state and tuition funds
  • Student enrollment >10,000; 2900 graduate and professional students.  2800 distance students
  • Personnel responsibility for approximately 350 faculty, 150 staff
  • Trustee, University of South Dakota Foundation
  • Oversaw successful university accreditation by Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in 2011
  • Co-chair, NCAA Certification Committee (successfully completed certification 2012)
  • Co-chair, Vice President for Health Affairs search committee (hired Dr. Mary Nettleman, formerly of Michigan State, first medical dean from outside South Dakota)

Financial Resource management:  Collaborated with VP-Finance to develop a Responsibility Centered Management budget approach (implemented FY13) with Continuing and Distance Education integrated into overall academic and fiscal planning with clear incentive plan.  Developed budget reduction process responsive to budget cuts totaling ~15% over three years, resulting in balanced budget.  Developed scholarship management process to back University’s broad scholarship commitment.  Instituted constituency-based fundraising by deans with major increase in annual giving, immediate constituent major gift successes in Business.  20% annual increase in Continuing and Distance Education tuition.

Faculty development:  Refined faculty expectations and promotion process to be more appropriate for research university.  Oversaw faculty hiring, promotion and tenure.

Research Development:  Doubled extramural research awards in Academic Affairs area (excludes Medical School, which is not within my sphere of responsibility).  First NSF IGERT training grant, first Department of Energy EPSCoR grant in South Dakota.

Personnel Resource Management:  Developed two-year faculty workload planning.  Instituted faculty effort monitoring.  Implemented faculty activity database.  Consolidated staff support in multiple departments while enhancing turnaround time and accuracy.

Student Success:  Six-year graduation rate at all-time high of 62% (increased from 46%); first year retention increased to 80% (from below 70%).  Combined academic and career advising to enhance student focus on direction and success.  Refined senior capstone class, instituted active learning.  Built Academic Commons for advising, supplemental instruction, global learning, information technology, Math Emporium in central library space.  Math Emporium program has been refined, Fall 2011 and again for Fall 2012, with record passage rate in remedial mathematics.  Enhanced use of “early alert”, assessment, use of Center for Teaching and Learning to increase faculty and chair effort in student success.

Diversity Initiatives:  Instituted educational site at Crazy Horse Memorial focused on Native American students.  Instituted minority student recruiting.  Expanded Diversity office, elevated to Associate Vice President.

International Initiatives:  Instituted Global Learning office and procedures (minimized risk to students in Tahrir Square, in Japan during earthquake, etc), tripled study abroad participation and instituted scholarship support for study abroad.  Doubled international student enrollment.  Engaged with Chinese entrepreneurs, Governor’s office to sponsor international entrepreneur conference with potential for considerable investment (summer 2012, upcoming summer 2013).

Facilities development:  Envisioned and completed Academic Commons renovation in Library to develop centralized student support services (Academic and Career Planning, Writing Center, Supplemental Instruction, Center for Academic Engagement, Global Learning, ITS Help Desk…).  Oversaw renovations of Chemistry, Biology, Physics facilities.  Worked closely with VP-Administration on all classroom renovations, building planning and use.

Other duties:  Oversaw successful reaccreditation by Higher Learning Commission in 2011.  Chaired committee for initial certification by NCAA for Division I athletics (self study successfully completed 2/2012).  Co-chaired successful search for Vice President for Health Affairs/Dean of School of Medicine (first external dean, joined USD 4/2012).  Liaison to South Dakota Board of Regents on all curricular matters, including Academic and Health Affairs.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT-Previous

University of Kentucky (1989-2008)

Vice President for Research, Acting- (2006-2007)

  • Work directly with Provost to oversee all research matters
  • Extramural research awards to University over $290 million in FY06
  • Operating budget of $45 million
  • Direct oversight of 10 interdisciplinary Centers and Institutes
  • 2006 Research awards of Centers totaled $34.8 million
  • Research organization employed 300 staff
  • Responsible for Federal relations, coordinate with state legislative relations office
  • Coordinate all faculty startup outside College of Medicine
  • Directly responsible for major research core facilities
  • Department of Laboratory Animal Resources, UK Clinical Research Organization, DNA microarray, Proteomics, Imaging and Electron Microscopy
  • Responsible institutional official for human subject protection, animal care, and research compliance
  • UK received full AAHRPP accreditation on its first attempt in 2006-2007
  • Direct reports include Office of Sponsored Project Administration, Office of Research Integrity, Proposal Development Office, Research Finance and Administration, Research Information Services, Federal Relations
  • Represent University as SURA Trustee, member of state EPSCoR committee, Advisory Board for Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, Institutional representative, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
  • Member, Board of Directors, Kentucky Technology, Incorporated (licenses University intellectual property, develops University-related businesses)

Associate Vice President for Research (2005-2008)

  • Worked closely with Executive Vice President for Research on all matters, including budget, policy, planning, administration, facilities
  • Primary effort in research development, faculty support, internal grant programs
  • Institutional representative, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)

Service as faculty administrator

Chair or Acting Chair, Biology Department (2000-2004)

Professor of Biology, (2007-2008), Associate Professor (1995), Assistant Professor (1989)

  • 31 tenure track faculty
  • Responsible for promotion, tenure, evaluation, recruitment
  • 10 departmental staff (responsible for 13 additional grant-supported postdocs, staff)
  • 60 graduate students (MS and Ph.D.)
  • 900 undergraduate majors
  • Departmental budget $3,000,000 per year
  • Departmental research grants and contracts $2.9 M in 2003-4

Director, Undergraduate Studies for School of Biological Sciences (1996-1999)

  • Oversaw curriculum, advising for >900 majors and >2000 non-majors

Section Head, Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences (1998-2000)

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

I no longer conduct active research in my area.  My work (37 publications) has been cited over 3800 times and my h-index is 19 (as of 11/2019).

1.      Wu C, Kim YS, Smith KM, Li W, Hood HM, Staben C, Selker EU, Sachs MS, Farman ML. (2009) Characterization of chromosome ends in the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Genetics. 181(3):1129-45

2.       Cushion MT, Smulian AG, Slaven BE, Sesterhenn T, Arnold J, Staben C, Porollo A, Adamczak R, Meller J. (2007) Transcriptome of Pneumocystis carinii during fulminate infection: carbohydrate metabolism and the concept of a compatible parasite. PLoS ONE. 2:e423

3.       Rehmeyer C, Li W, Kusaba M, Kim YS, Brown D, Staben C, Dean R, Farman M. (2006) Organization of chromosome ends in the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae. Nucleic Acids Res. 34:4685-701.
  • Smith JJ, Putta S, Walker JA, Kump DK, Samuels AK, Monaghan JR, Weisrock DW, Staben C, Voss SR (2005). Sal-Site: integrating new and existing ambystomatid salamander research and informational resources. BMC Genomics. 6:181
  • Li W, Staben C, Farman ML. (2005) TRUMATCH, a BLAST post processor. Bioinformatics 21:2097-98.
  • Li W, Rehmeyer CJ, Staben C, Farman ML. (2005) TERMINUS – telomeric end-read mining IN unassembled sequences. Bioinformatics 8:1695-8.
  • Galagan JE, Calvo SE, Borkovich KA, Selker EU, Read ND, Jaffe D, FitzHugh W, Ma LJ, Smirnov S, Purcell S, Rehman B, Elkins T, Engels R, Wang S, Nielsen CB, Butler J, Endrizzi M, Qui D, Ianakiev P, Bell-Pedersen D, Nelson MA, Werner-Washburne M, Selitrennikoff CP, Kinsey JA, Braun EL, Zelter A, Schulte U, Kothe GO, Jedd G, Mewes W, Staben C, Marcotte E, Greenberg D, Roy A, Foley K, Naylor J, Stange-Thomann N, Barrett R, Gnerre S, Kamal M, Kamvysselis M, Mauceli E, Bielke C, Rudd S, Frishman D, Krystofova S, Rasmussen C, Metzenberg RL, Perkins DD, Kroken S, Cogoni C, Macino G, Catcheside D, Li W, Pratt RJ, Osmani SA, DeSouza CP, Glass L, Orbach MJ, Berglund JA, Voelker R, Yarden O, Plamann M, Seiler S, Dunlap J, Radford A, Aramayo R, Natvig DO, Alex LA, Mannhaupt G, Ebbole DJ, Freitag M, Paulsen I, Sachs MS, Lander ES, Nusbaum C, Birren B. (2003) The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa.  Nature. 422:859-68.
  • Kronstad, J.W. and C. Staben (1997) Mating type in filamentous fungi .  Ann. Rev. Genet. 31:245-276.
  • Smulian AG, Ryan M, Staben C, Cushion M. (1996) Signal transduction in Pneumocystis carinii: characterization of the genes (pcg1) encoding the alpha subunit of the G protein (PCG1) of Pneumocystis carinii carinii and Pneumocystis carinii ratti. Infect Immun. 64:691-701.
  • Staben, C.  (1995)  Resistance to azole drugs in Neurospora crassa  Exp. Mycol. 19: 163-5.
  • Edelmann, S. E., and C. Staben. (1994). A statistical analysis of sequence features within genes from Neurospora crassa. Exp. Mycol. 18:70-81.
  • Philley, M. L., and C. Staben. (1994). Functional analyses of the Neurospora crassa MT a-1 mating type polypeptide. Genetics 137:715-722.
  • Ludewig, G., Y. Li, J. M. Williams, and C. Staben. (1994). Effects of pentamidine isethionate on Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Antimicrob. Ag. Chemother. 38:1123-1128.
  • Chang, S., and C. Staben.(1994). Directed Replacement of mt A by mt a-1 Effects a Mating Type Switch in Neurospora crassa. Genetics 138:75-81.
  • Ludewig, G., and C. Staben. (1994). Characterization of the PNT1 pentamidine resistance gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Antimicrob. Ag. Chemother. 38:2850-2856.
  • Tsai HF, Liu JS, Staben C, Christensen MJ, Latch GC, Siegel MR, Schardl CL. (1994) Evolutionary diversification of fungal endophytes of tall fescue grass by hybridization with Epichloe species.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 91:2542-6.
  • Hatfield C, Kasarskis A, Staben C. (1991) Pentamidine sensitivity and resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model for pentamidine effects on Pneumocystis carinii.  J Protozool. 38:70S-71S.
  • Staben, C., and Yanofsky. (1990). Neurospora crassa a mating type region. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 87:4917-4921
  • Glass, N. L., S. J. Vollmer, C. Staben, R. L. Metzenberg, and C. Yanofsky. (1988). DNAs of the two mating-type alleles of Neurospora crassa are highly dissimilar. Science 241:570-573.
  • Staben C, Whitehead TR, Rabinowitz JC. (1987)  Heparin-agarose chromatography for the purification of tetrahydrofolate utilizing enzymes: C1-tetrahydrofolate synthase and 10-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase.  Anal Biochem. 162:257-64
  • Staben, C., and J. C. Rabinowitz. (1986). Nucleotide Sequence of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADE3 Gene Encoding C1-Tetrahydrofolate Synthase. J. Biol. Chem. 261:4629-4637.
  • Staben, C., and J. C. Rabinowitz. (1983). Immunological crossreactivity of eukaryotic C1-tetrahydrofolate synthase and prokaryotic 10-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 80:6799-6803

GRANT SUPPORT

Extramural grant funding as PI of over $10M from 1989-2008. Agencies included NSF, NIH, VA including NIH R01 and NSF research grant funding.

  • Kentucky Biomedical Research Information Network, Subcontracts ($3,049,000 total) National Institutes of Health, 10/2002-12/2008, subcontract on primary grant to Nigel Cooper, University of Louisville
  • Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection ($2,000,000) 7/1/2007-6/30/2011, Supplemental Environmental Projects
  • Extramural Research Facilities Improvement, ($3,685,000) 9/15/2004-9/14/2007, National Institutes of Health, 1C06RR020098-01 (W. Baldwin, original PI)
  • Center for Biologic Basis of Oral/Systemic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 9/2004-7/2009, co-Investigator with Jeff Ebersole, 1P20RR020145-01 (5% effort, informatics core).
  • Telomeres of Filamentous Fungi, ($600,000) NSF, co-PI.  Primary Investigator, Mark Farman, Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky.  (an informatics subcontract of $20,000/year for 3 years, 2002-2005)
  • Neurospora Genome Project, National Science Foundation, subcontract on grant to B. Birren, Whitehead Institute ($30,000 direct to UK), 10/2000-12/2002.
  • Pneumocystis carinii Genome Project, National Institutes of Health, subcontract on grant to M. Cushion ($200,000 direct), 2/99-12/02
  • Gene Expression in Normal and Damaged Rat Brain ($50,000) Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Foundation, co-investigator with Dr. Steven Scheff.
  • Bioinformatics:  Genetics in the Genomics Age.  Course and Curriculum Development Grant ($115,000) National Science Foundation, 2/98-2/2002.
  • Genetic Determinants of the Neurospora crassa Life Cycle, NSF ($315,000) 9/95-9/98
  • “Genetic Approach to Understanding Pneumocystis Therapy”, (NIH) GM46193, ($362,355), 6/1/91-5/31/95.
  • “Genetic Determinants of the Neurospora Life Cycle”, (NSF) MCB-9107083, ($290,000) 1/91-12/95.
  • Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Pneumocystis Pneumonia in the Rat Animal Model System, Tobacco and Health Research Institute, $19,968, 7/1/96-6/30/97 (Declined).
  • The regulation of mating and meiosis in Neurospora crassa by mating-type polypeptides”, (NSERC-Canada)-Collaboration with N. Louise Glass, funds to be used to support work in her laboratory in Canada ($195,000) 1995-1997.
  • “Mating Type Genes of Pneumocystis carinii“, University of Cincinnati Research Challenge Grant, $33,000 for research in my laboratory, 9/94-3/96.  Co-investigators Melanie Cushion, George Smulian, VA Medical Center.

INSTRUCTION

Honors and Awards

                        College of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Teacher 1997-2000

                                    Most prestigious teaching award offered by College

College of Arts and Sciences, Outstanding Teacher 1996-1997

                        Dean’s “Top Ten” List:  1993-1998 (Student poll conducted by Dean)

Instructional activities, courses

IDEA 499 (Seminar on Energy and Sustainability, 2009)-Univ. of South Dakota

BIO150 (Principles of Biology I, 2005, 2006 [highest instructor rating for this course]

BIO425 (Seminar in Biology, Classics in Bioinformatics and Genomics)

BIO520 (Bioinformatics)-classroom and distance instruction (via TV, internet) (1996-2005), see NSF Course and Curriculum Development grant

BIO621 (Bioinformatics Projects course) (2001, 2002)

BIO304 (Genetics, 1992-1996), BIO208 (Microbiology, 1990-1992), assorted graduate, undergraduate seminars in molecular biology, genetics

Graduate Education

Postdoctoral Students

Gabriele Ludewig, Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa

Alfredo Martinez-Espinoza, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia

PhD graduates:

Shinyu Chang, Software Engineer, University of Maryland

Yi Li, Pediatrician, Louisville, KY

Jennifer Williams, Research Scientist, Proteome, Inc.

Melissa Philley, Associate Professor of Biology, Lindsey Wilson College

Thomas Badgett, Clinical Professor, Pediatric Oncology, University of Kentucky

 MS graduates

 Stephanie Edelmann, Shiping Zhou, Qing Chang,Qin Li, Weixi Li

Graduate Committees

                                    Served on over 30 PhD and MS Committees since 1989.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Peer Review Activities

–National Research Council, Committee to review EPSCoR and EPSCoR-like programs, 2012-2013

  • Only member of committee from EPSCoR/IDEA state.  Report in preparation for public comment.  Plan to be presented to US Senate in 2013.

-AAAS Consultant, Delaware INBRE Program, 2012

-HLC (Higher Learning Commission) Peer Evaluator, 2009-present

-NIH, NCRR Laboratory Animal Facilities Review (Internet Panel), 2009

-NSF Reviewer, Major Research Instrumentation, 2008

-NSF SBIR Reviewer, Genomics and Bioinformatics 2006

-NIH Site visit team for RO1 grant, MIT, 2004

-Genetics Study Section, Member, NIH, 1999-2003

-Special Study Section, NIH, 1999 (review of special genomics grants)

-Chair, Special Study Section, NIH, 1999 (review of molecular mycology grants)

-Ad hoc member, Genetics Study Section, NIH 1998, 1999 (twice)

–Ad hoc member, Microbial Physiology Study Section, NIH 1998, 1999

-NSF EPSCoR Reviewer, Kentucky REG Grants, 1996

-Ad hoc reviewer,

National Science Foundation, United States Department of Agriculture, Veterans Administration Research Service, tenure reviews for various universities

-Member, Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Education Committee (1999)

-Referee

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Biochemistry, BOMC Bioinformatics, Current Genetics, Fungal Genetics and Biology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular and General Genetics, Molecular Microbiology, Genetics, Nucleic Acids Res. ,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

-Reviewer

Saunders Publishing Corporation, Wadsworth Publishing Corporation, Wiley Interscience, Kluwer, Harcourt Brace Corporation, Jones and Bartlett

Life Sciences Interactive Media, Addison-Wesley

-Consultant

            Virage, Inc., San Mateo, CA (Image Domain Expert-Biological Images) -1999

            SciMagix, Inc., San Mateo, CA (Image Domain Expert-Biological Images) -1999

            Member, Louisville Science Center Advisory Board (2006-2008)

Invited Seminars and Research Presentations (selected, 1998-present)

Illinois Board of Higher Education-Access Initiatives, 12/2019

National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education (2012)

University of South Dakota, Sanford School of Medicine and Department of Biology (2008)

University of Kentucky, Department of Biology (2007)

National IDEA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) (2006)

University of Kentucky, Department of Biology (2006)

Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Session Leader, Workshop on Molecular Machines (2006)

Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware (2005)

Biotechnology in EPSCoR States, NSF EPSCoR Conference, Puerto Rico (2005)

Miami University of Ohio (2004)

University of Rhode Island, College of Pharmacy (2003)

SURA BIOGrid Workshop, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, (2003)

High Performance Research Computing, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (2002)

Northern Kentucky University, Biology Department (2001)

Eastern Kentucky University Biology Departments (2001)

University of Kentucky, Anatomy and Neurobiology Department (1999)

Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities, Bioinformatics Education, Durham, NC (1999)

University of Georgia, Department of Genetics, Athens, GA (1998)

Schering-Plough Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ (1998)

Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA (1998)

Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ (1998)

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE-University of Kentucky (selected)

Chair, Academic Strategic Planning Committee for University (2002-2003)

Chair, University Senate Committee on Institutional Resources and Finances (2003-2005)

Chair, Arts and Sciences College Council (1999-2000)

Phi Beta Kappa, President (1996-97) Treasurer (1997-2004), Membership Chair (2002-2008)

Member, University Committee on Strategic Planning and Priorities (2006)

Co-Chair, Research Domain Subcommittee

Member, Provost Search Committee, 2005

Member, University of Kentucky Committee on Postsecondary Education Agenda, 2005

Member, University Senate Council (2004 [resigned upon administrative appointment])

Member, Academic Planning and Priorities Committee (2003-5)

Member, University of Kentucky Budget Advisory Group (2004-5)

Meet monthly with Provost, Vice-Presidents (Budget, Finance, Research, Development), comptroller, Athletics Director to advise on University budget issues

Member, Univ. of Kentucky NCAA Academic Integrity Subcommittee (Recertification-2004)

University Faculty Senator (2002-2004, elected to Senate Council for 2004-5, resigned due to

Administrative post)

Member, University Top 20 Taskforce (2002)

Presidential taskforce on University of Kentucky goals, mission, assessment criteria

Member, Institutional Biosafety Committee (2002-2005)

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (2005-2008, ex-officio)

Member, Biological and Biomedical Sciences Research Building Committee (complete Spring

2005) Oversee design of $67M research building

Member, Biocomputing Taskforce (2002-2004)

Member, Arts and Sciences College Council (1997-1999)

EXTERNAL SERVICE

Peer Reviewer, NWCCU (2015-present)

National Research Council, Committee to review EPSCoR and EPSCoR-like programs, 2012-13

AAAS Consultant, Delaware INBRE Program, 2012

PEAQ Reviewer, Higher Learning Commission (2009-present)

National EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation Board (2007-2008)

SURA Representative (2006-2008)

            Southeast University Research Association

Member, Kentucky Technology Incorporated Board of Directors

ORAU Councilor (2005-2008)

            Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Kentucky EPSCoR Committee (2006-2008)

Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation Board (2006-2008)

OVALS Steering Committee (2005-2008)

            Ohio Valley Affiliates for Life Sciences