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Dr. J. Sölkner, Austria
Dr. J. Sölkner has been appointed Livestock Production Science, Section
Editor for Genetics from 1 January 2002. Dr. Sölkner is at the University
of Agricultural Sciences Vienna, Department of Livestock Science, Gregor-Mendel-Strasse
33, A 1180 Vienna, Austria. He replaces Professor Pim Brascamp to whom EAAP
and Elsevier express their grateful thanks for substantial and quality work
over a number of years.
Professor Dr. Imre Bodó, Hungary
The SAVE Foundation announces that Professor Imre Bodó of Hungary, who
is well-known in EAAP circles, has been appointed Chairman of the Foundation
for the two year period 2001-2003. Imre Bodó retired as Head of the Animal
Breeding Department in the Hungarian University of Veterinary Sciences and is
now Professor at Debrecen Agricultural University, Hungary. He has been involved
in the conservation of animal genetic resources since 1961 when he started working
on the conservation of the Hungarian Grey cattle, Mangalica pigs and Racka sheep
at the Hortobagy State Farm of 70,000 hectares. As a Professor he later expanded
these conservation activities to an international level. He is chairman of DAGENE
(Danubian Alliance for Gene Conservation in Animal Species) and President of
two Hungarian rare breed associations (Hungarian Grey cattle and the Furioso
horse breed).. He is also president of the international conservation organization
for the Lipizzan horse breed. Professor Bodó is a founder member of Rare
Breeds International and of the SAVE Foundation. He is a recipient of the EAAP
Distinguished Service Award. EAAP gives our congratulations to both Professor
Bodó and to SAVE.
Dr. Andrea Rosati, Italy
Dr. Andrea Rosati took up a new appointment from January 2002, Vice-President
of ICAR, as Director of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory (DNA Laboratory named
Laboratorio Gruppi Sanguigni, LGS), in Cremona, Italy. Previously he was with
the Italian Animal Breeders Association (AIA) where he was responsible for the
Research and Study Office. The Laboratory LGS was founded in 1980 and is located
in Cremona in the Po Valley with a smaller research branch in Potenza in the
south of Italy. The LGS serves many Italian Breeders Associations for different
breeds and species as well as other organizations. The main goal of LGS is to
determine paternal and maternal disclaimers through the application of DNA methodology.
Nowadays many other analyses are performed as type identification of cattle
(K-casein, PDME, etc.), swine (RYR1, etc.), sheep (scrapie susceptibility, etc.),
identification of carriers of hereditary syndromes for each species, OGM detection
through DNA analysis, etc. Dr.Rosati will continue his duties and responsibilities
in the ICAR Board and in the ICAR Sub-committee "Meters and Jars".
Dr. Rosati gained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Animal Science
(Breeding and Genetics) at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA, with Prof.
D. Van Vleck. He then joined the Italian Animal Breeders Association and has
worked there for the last eight years, where he dealt with selection schemes
and milk and beef recording systems for recorded animals of many breeds and
species (Dairy cattle, beef cattle, dairy sheep, goats, buffaloes, horses, rabbits).
Dr. Andrea Rosati may be contacted at Laboratorio Gruppi Sanguigni, via Bergamo
292, I- 26100 Cremona, Italy. Tel. +39 0372 560936/7 and +39 0372 560828. Cell.
+39 335 6760048. Fax: +39 0372 560938. Email: andrearosati@lgscr.it.
The work of LGS may be found at: www.lgscr.it
Dr. Carlos Seré
New Director-General of International Livestock Research Institute
(ILRI - CGIAR, Africa)
The ILRI Board of Trustees have appointed Dr. Carlos Seré of Uruguay
as the new Director-General of International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
from 1 January 2002. Dr. Seré has a doctorate in agricultural economics
from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. For the last seven years Dr. Seré
worked with the International Development Research Centre. He has served the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) as both staff
member and reviewer. In the 1980s, he was an economist with International Center
for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for 10 years. In the 1990s, he reviewed the
International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD) and the International
Potato Center (CIP) and helped develop a strategic plan for ILRI, which began
operations in 1995. Dr. Seré will be the second person to lead ILRI following
Dr. Hank Fitzhugh who was the first Director-General of ILRI after it was formed
by uniting the two CGIAR Institutes, ILRAD and ILCA.
World Food Prize
Dr. Per Pinstrup-Anderen
The World Food Prize Foundation announced that Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, a
Danish national who is Director-General of the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington, D.C., has been awarded the 2001 World
Food Prize and its $250,000 cash award for his contribution to the well-being
of poor farmers and consumers world-wide. For nearly a decade Pinstrup-Andersen
has led IFPRI, a Future Harvest Centre funded through the Consultative Group
on International Agricultural Research. He has been the driving force behind
IFPRI's '2020 Vision Initiative', which helps world leaders focus on food security
issues in the 21st Century. For more information, visit the Future Harvest website
at http://www.futureharvest.org/
King Faisal International Prize for Science
Dr. Craig Venter
Dr. Craig Venter, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Celera Genomics
and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Genomic Research
(TIGR), received the King Faisal International Prize for Science (Biology) in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 14 May 2001. Dr. Venter donated the proceeds to TIGR
to fund genome sequencing of Theileria parva, a deadly cattle parasite.
Sequencing of the T. parva genome is being conducted by TIGR
in collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute.
Professor In K. Han, Korea
Professor In K. Han has been nominated as President of the Korean National Academy
of Science and Technology. EAAP and WAAP send congratulations and best wishes
on this well merited achievement. Professor Han is a former President of the
World Association for Animal Production.
Dr. Maurice Bichard
Dr. Maurice Bichard was honoured in September 2000 at the AGM of the Deutsche
Gesellschaft fur Zuchtungskunde (EAAP's German member organisation) by being
made an Honorary Member. The citation reads: "In recognition of his outstanding
achievements in the application of scientific knowledge to international pig
breeding and his particular services to the re-shaping of the EAAP".
Dr. E.B. Burnside, Canada
Dr. Ted Burnside of Canada retired after three years as Senior Geneticist of
the Semex Alliance on 31 March 2002. Before joining the Semex Alliance he served
a four year term as Vice Principal Academic at the Nova Scotia Agricultural
College prior to which he had a 30 year career as Professor at the University
of Guelph. Dr. Burnside was a founding Director of the Centre for Genetic Improvement
of Livestock at the University of Guelph and much of the research he carried
out at the University was applied by the Semex Alliance's partner A.I. Co-ops.
Ted Burnside has worked closely with the genetics team in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec. He
developed a breeding strategy for the dairy cattle program, and designed and
led a Genetic Marker/Genomics research and development program in collaboration
with Lennoxville Research Station of Agriculture, Agrifood Canada, Saskatchewan
Research Centre, and the University of Guelph. He has served on the Board of
DairyGen, the national genetics research council.
Dr. Burnside plans to continue his career as a consulting geneticist with the
family's own firm, Genetic Consultants Ltd. The Semex Alliance will continue
to retain Dr. Burnside for special assignments in Canada and overseas.
International Dairy Federation Award, 2001
The 2001 International Dairy Federation Award was made to Professor Dr. Zdenko
Puhan (Switzerland) and Dr. Robert Sellars (US) for remarkable contributions
to progress in international dairying. Normally only one award is given annually,
but exceptionally last year two were awarded. Professor Puhan has worked in
dairy technology and microbiology of milk and milk products. Dr. Sellars specializes
in dairy and food microbiology, cheese manufacture and use of probiotics for
human and animal nutrition and health. The awards were made by the IDF President,
Philippe Jachnick, at the IDF World Dairy Summit in Auckland, New Zealand in
October 2001.
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