AIP research staff history
Research leaders | Research staff | Posdoctoral research associates | Visiting scientists | Visiting students
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 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
