Professional Service

  • 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
  • NIH Research Panel on Polio Eradication – 1998
  • Am. Type Culture Collection, Virology Task Force, Virology Advisory Board – 1997-2002
  • 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