Res. Collaboratory for Struct. Bioinform. (RCSB) Protein Data Bank (PDB) Advisory Committee – 2009
President, Am. Society for Virology (Executive Council ’07-‘09) – 2007-2008
ASV representative to International Union of Microbiological Societies – 2005-2008
Co-organizer, 7th, 8th, 9th International Symposium on Positive-Strand RNA Viruses – 2004, 2007, 2010
Guest editor, special edition of Virus Research – 2003
FDA Site Visit Panel, Laboratory of Methods Development – 2003
I presently serve as a consultant for seven national and international firms on the production and use of cell-free translation systems; protein expression with viral IRESes; development and assay of recombinant vaccines; identification of anti-picornaviral drugs aimed at specific viral proteases; computer based-methods of sequence analysis, and topological assessments of RNA folding patterns.
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Executive Committee – 1999-2005
Organizer, Am. Society of Virology 13th & 20th Annual Meetings, Madison, WI – 1994, 2001
Associate Editor, Virology – 1993-2005
NIAID Task Force on Microbiology and Infectious Diseases – 1991
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, ASV representative – 1991, 1988-1992, 1999, 2001-2002
NIH study section member (Experimental Virology) – 1988-1992; Ad Hoc 2001, 2002, Immunology study section, 2001, Virology study section, 1999, 2001, 2002
Ad Hoc grant reviewer for NIH, NSF, ACS, USDA, Swiss Nat. Foundation, Canadian Res. Council, Singapore Nat. Sci. Foundation, Hughes Medical Foundation, Am. Heart Association – 1984-Present
Reviewer for J. Virology, Archives of Virology, Virology, Cell, J. Molecular Biology, EMBO Journal, PNAS, Science, Nature, Virus Research, Biochemistry – 1975-Present