AIP research staff history : USDA ARS

AIP research staff history

Year	Research leader	Career after AIP
1908	Helmer Rabild \| Photo	Managed milk processing plants in Pennsylvania
1925	Joseph Parker & John McLain	Became extension specialists
1929	John McDowell
1938	Frank Kendrick \| Photo	Established a USDA computing center in Washington, DC
1962	Robert (Bob) H. Miller \| Photo	Became research leader for the Genetics and Management Laboratory and then the Milk Secretion and Mastitis Laboratory
1963	Ernest Corley \| Photo	Became chief of the Dairy Cattle Research Branch and then assistant to the administrator for the Agricultural Research Service
1966	R. Dean Plowman \| Photo	Became administrator of the Agricultural Research Service and then acting assistant secretary for USDA
1969	Frank N. Dickinson \| Photo	Became chief executive officer of the National Dairy Herd Information Association (NDHIA)
1988	H. Duane Norman \| Photo	Became interim administrator of the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) and later a CDCB technical advisor and industry liaison
2012	George R. Wiggans \| Photo	Final acting research leader of the Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory, which was merged with the Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory to form the Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory; became a CDCB technical advisor

Years	Staff member
1960–72	Benjamin (Ben) T. McDaniel
1970–2011	H. Duane Norman
1972–75	Jeffrey (Jeff) F. Keown
1972–2005	Rex L. Powell
1973–2011	Leigh M. Walton
1974–82	Evelyn F. Myers
1975–79	Bennet G. Cassell
1977–2000	William (Wes) E. Shainline, Jr.
1978–2016	George R. Wiggans
1979	Alfred (Al) L. Kuck
1980–2017	Janice (Jan) R. Wright
1980–2021	Suzanne M. Hubbard
1981–2019	Lillian R. (King) Bacheller
1984–91	Cynthia A. Ernst
1988–2018	Frank A. Ross, Jr.
1988–2025	Paul M. VanRaden
1992–2015	Joel (Jay) H. Megonigal, Jr.
1996–2002	Jill C. Philpot (Lake)
1998–2010	Curtis (Curt) P. Van Tassell [returned in 2014 when AIPL and BFGL merged to form AGIL]
2001–06	Ashley H. Sanders
2002–08	Melvin T. Kuhn
2002–18	Melvin (Mel) E. Tooker
2003–08	Laura L.M. Thornton (Melton)
2003–20	John B. Cole
2004	Robert (Rob) C. Goodling, Jr.
2005–25	Daniel J. Null
2009–16	Tabatha A. Cooper
2012–16	Derek M. Bickhart
2021–25	Asha M. Miles
2024–25	Jason R. Graham

Years	Researcher	Country of origin	Research project
1982–83	Waheed A. Mohammad	India	Effects of pregnancy
1984–85	Thomas (Tom) J. Lawlor, Jr.	USA	Effect of selection on parameter estimation
1988–89	Martin Sieber	Germany	Conversion formulas
1991–94	Michael (Mike) M. Schutz	USDA	Somatic cell score (SCS) evaluation, age adjustment
1991–95	Todd R. Meinert	USA	Accuracy of data
1996–97	Yang Da	China	Genetic markers
1996–97	Curtis (Curt) P. Van Tassell	USA	Variance components
2002–04	Elizabeth (Liz) Hare	USA	Reproduction and its relationships with other traits
2009–11	Katrina (Katie) M. Olson	USA	Multibreed genomic evaluations, breed determination from genomics, genomic validation, across-country genomic evaluations
2012–14	Chuanyu Sun	China	Genomic evaluation models
2014–16	Kristen Parker Gaddis	USA	Genomics of fertility-related traits
2017–18	Heather Bradford	USA	Effect of pedigree error on genomic selection
2018–19	Bingjie Li	China	Feed intake prediction reliabilities and marker effects
2019–21	Juan Pablo Nani	Argentina	Ancestor discovery, genomic inbreeding
2019–24	Ahmed Al-Khudhair	USA	Imputation and selection of high density and sequence genotypes, Recessive disorders in cattle (BLIRD, JNS, HMW)
2024–25	Bailey Basiel	USA	Beef on Dairy, Mating strategies in US dairy herds

Years	Researcher	Country of origin	Research project
1974	Frank D. Murrill	USA	DHIA organization
1979–80	Michael (Mike) Grossman	USA	Goat data analysis
1981	Max F. Rothschild
1982	Abraham Genizi	Israel	Lactation adjustments
1982–83	Joel I. Weller	Israel	Prediction errors, parity differences
1989	Andrzej (Andy) Żarnecki	Poland	10-nation Holstein comparison
1992	Wilfried Brade	Germany	Dominance and epistatis
1993–94	Joel I. Weller	Israel	Genetic marker analysis
1994	Jeong-Koo Lee	South Korea	Effects of pregnancy
1999–2000	Theodore (Ted) A. Ferris	USA	Test-day models
2000	Georgios Banos	Greece	Systems for validation of national genetic evaluations (visiting from Interbull in Sweden)
2012–13	Joel I. Weller	Israel	A priori granddaughter design to map major genetic effects
2015–16	Kun Wang	China	Determination of genetic markers with large effects on economically important trait
2016–17	Joel I. Weller	Israel	Determination of actual polymorphisms responsible for economic trait variation in dairy cattle
2017	Yang Da	USA	Alternative genomic evaluation models
2020	Ahmed Sallam	Egypt	Genome wide association for new conformation traits

Years	Researcher	Country of origin	Research project
1986	Gert J. Nieuwhof	Netherlands	Calving interval and herdlife
1987	Pauline M. van Diemen	Netherlands	Age adjustment for goats
1990	Frits C. van der Shans	Netherlands	International type comparison
1990	Alfons Koorhuis	Netherlands	Offspring-parent regressions
1992, 1993	Eric J.H. Klaaskate	Netherlands	Productive life
1993	Jan Zuurbier	Netherlands	Calculation of inbreeding
1994	Ming-Feng Luo	China	Conformation in goats
1999, 2000	Jeanne Bormann	Belgium	Test-day data
2013	Chen Yao	USA	Multibreed stillbirth evaluation and organization of feed efficiency database
2013–14	Adriana García-Ruiz	Mexico	Genomic selection and genetic progress
2016–17	Mariana Berton	Brazil	Association of copy number variants with Nelore beef traits
2016–17	Tatiane Chud	Brazil	Detection of genomic effects for crossbred dairy cattle

Compiled by Paul VanRaden