PERSONAL
Born September 23, 1938, Massillon, Ohio
Boy Scout - Eagle award
Wm T Hornaday Award for Conservation
Hobbies: photography, wood turning, furniture making, fossil hunting, world traveling, reading, didjeridoo and harmonica playing
Sports: skiing, fly fishing, camping
Music preferences: classical, native music –worldwide including yidaki from Australia, and native voices of South Africa
Married to Suzan Strobel
Children: Scott, David, Kendra, Emily and Sarah.
Church membership: Active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (LDS or the Mormons).
EDUCATION
PhD, Univ of Calif, 1963 (Plant Pathology)
BS, Colo State Univ, 1960 (Botany) with honors
Washington High School, Massillon, Ohio, 1956 graduate
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Professor, Montana State Univ, 1970-present
Asst-Assoc Professor, Montana State Univ, 1963-70
Visiting Hill Professor, Dept Biochem, Univ of Minn, 1975 (fall)
IPA-exchange Professional with USDA, 1976-77
AWARDS AND HONORS
Fellow AAAS - 1970
NIH Career Development Award - 1969-74
Wiley Award (MSU) for distinguished research accomplishments - 1979
Sigma XI Award (MSU) for research - 1973
R G Gray endowed chair - 1980-91
Am. Soc Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Membership – 1970 (by election)
Medal of the Nepal Chemical Society in Recognition of his Contribution to Chemical Research in Nepal
Technology/Science Award (2004) Montana State University
Elected - American Academy of Microbiology (2004)
Fellow of the Explorer’s Club of the World
BARD Senior Fellow for the State of Israel 2008
Senior Plant Science Fellow of the Australian Government-2008
SOME EXAMPLES OF INVITED LECTURES
International Phytopath Congresses (London & Minneapolis) - 1968 & 1973
Gordon Conferences on toxins and fungal products 1975-2000
Phytochemical Society, Hull, England - 1977
International Congress of Cell Biology 1981 - Berlin
French Phytopath Soc, Invited keynote lecturer - 1984
Israeli Phytopath Soc, Rehovot - 1985
United Nations, Vienna and Bangkok - 1987, 1989
AID, State Department - 1988
Rothchild lecturer, Jerusalem - 1988
NATO Conference, Capri - 1988
Kasetart U, Bangkok, Thailand - 1989 & 1991
University of Vienna - 1990
University of Dehli - 1991
Indian Ag Res Instit - 1991
Chiang Mai U, Thailand - 1991
Dehli University, India - 1991
NATO Meeting, Munich, Germany - 1992
Rome University, Italy - 1992
Bari University, Italy - 1992
Nagoya University, Japan - 1993
International Botanical Congress - Tokyo 1992
University of Tel Aviv – 1995
AAAS-2000
University of Hong Kong, 2001
International Biotech Congress 2001 San Diego
British Mycological Society Symposium, Swansea, Wales, 2001
Bioprospecting Conference, Caracacas,Venezuela, 1998
Am. Soc. of Industrial Microbiology, Minneapolis Minn., 2003
All Islamic Conference on Science, Seiyun, Yemen, 2003
Yale University , 2006, 2007, 2008
Brigham Young University, 2006
Syngenta, Capetown, South Africa, 2007
University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur-2008
University of Darwin, Australia-2008
LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia-2008
Synthetic Genomics, San Diego, 2008
Other lectures have been given at over 300 colleges, universities, institutes, foundations and companies over the course of 41 years of academic research. A few of these include Harvard Univ, Yale Univ., Univ. of California system, Univ of London, Freiburg Univ, Cold Springs Harbor, Wash Univ, Univ of Minn, Univ of West Virginia, Univ of Wyoming, Univ of Utah, BYU, Univ of Colorado, Cal Tech, Stanford, Penn State, Univ of Maryland, Penn State U., Univ. of Maryland, Univ. of Colo, Univ. of Illinois and Purdue U. The list also includes numerous invitations to lecture at meetings of various scientific societies and organizations worldwide, eg. CATIE- Costa Rica; FHIA- Honduras; INIBAP- Costa Rica; Settat, Morocco; Dehli Univ, New Dehli; The Riken- Tokyo, Japan; Nepal Academy of Science- Kathmandu, Nepal; IPRI- Jakarta, and many others.
GRANTS AND PATENTS
Over 40 US patents (granted) and many pending plus many international patents. Grants have been held from NSF, USDA, USFS, NIH, Max Kade Foundation, NASA, U.S. Forest Service, Freshwater Biol Soc, and numerous companies including Cytoclonal, Pharmagenesis, HMV, Novozymes, Dole Inc and Dow Chem Co. totaling millions of dollars.
SPECIAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE PAST:
- Director of the NSF-EPSCoR (MONTS) Program in Montana; 1980 - present (a 40% time commitment) resulting in a greatly improved competitive research program in Montana and other EPSCOR states (1980 -2001). Associate director of the NSF- EPSCOR program in Montana 2001---------.
- Consultant for several biotech companies including Ecopharm, Monsanto, Schering Plough, Lederle, FMC, Microbia, Diversa, Eli Lilly, and Cytoclonal, Inc.,Agraquest, Phillips Environmental Products, and others.
- Editorial board for Plant Physiology, Phytopathology, Plant Science, Toxin Reviews, and J. Nat. Toxins. Reviewer for many other journals including Phytochemistry, Journal of Natural Products, and others.
- Vice President of the EPSCoR Coalition 1986-1990.
- Chief Consultant for Ecopharm (1993-1997) and Phillips Environmental Products (2004-current)
- Panels for NSF, USDA, NIH,& NCI to decide the fate of research proposals.
- Proposal reviews for NSF. NIH, USDA, US State Dept. and many federal organizations abroad.
- Advisor to over 125 post doctoral people, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
The standard service to university committees at the department, college, university, and state levels has also been rendered.
Numerous classes have been taught at the graduate level and participation/service in the biotech class in both the lab and lecture has been rendered
PUBLICATIONS
Over 320 publications in a wide range of journals including Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Biol. Chem., Proc. Natl. Aca. Sci., Microbiology, J. Org. Chem., Chem. & Biol., Plant Science, J of Org.Chem. and many others.Many popular articles have appeared in such journals, magazines and newspapers as Scientific American, Discover, N.Y.Times, Wall Street J., Time, and Life.
