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The Distinguished Service Award is presented to those, selected
by the SIVB President, who have demonstrated and given extra effort
in support of the SIVB programs and endeavors. The following SIVB
members were presented the Distinguished Service Award at the
2004 World Congress, held in San Francisco, California. Additional
winners will be listed in future issues of the In Vitro Report.
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 John
Masters
John Masters was a graduate student at the Imperial Cancer
Research Fund in the Department of Sammy Franks, a pioneer
of in vitro techniques who had trained with George Gey. The
rest of his career has been spent in clinical departments
undertaking translational cancer research. Most of Dr. Master's
research uses in vitro technology - growing primary cultures
of human normal and cancer cells to study stem cells and prediction
of response to therapy and prognosis. He is currently Director
of the Prostate Cancer Research Centre and Vice-President
of the European Society of Tissue Culture.
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 Suzanne
Rogers
Dr. Rogers received her undergraduate degree in horticulture
at Cornell University, her Masters of Science degree in horticulture
at Ohio State University and her PhD degree in Agronomy at the
University of Illinois.
Dr. Rogers' research interests are in the application of regeneration
and transformation protocols to generate model systems for the
transformation of wetland monocots such as Typha, Juncus, Scirpus,
and Carex species. The long-term goals of this research are
to transform single-gene traits into freshwater wetland monocots
to generate plants that can process and remove heavy metals
from polluted waters. She was the first scientist to transform
Typha and Juncus species. She has funded this research with
grants obtained from the USDA, NASA, and West Virginia Experimental
Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (WV EPSCoR) and others.
She also has interests in the areas of micropropagation, tropical
foliage plants and bonsai.
Dr. Rogers has been a member of the SIVB for more than 2 decades.
She has served as the vice president of the plant section of
SIVB and served on the Student Awards committee for several
years. She has served as a reviewer for numerous manuscripts
submitted to In Vitro - Plant, Plant Cell Reports, and
Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture. She is currently
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 Colette
Rudd
Colette Rudd became interested in mammalian cell culture as
an undergraduate biology major at the University of California,
San Diego, after taking a cell biology class with Dr. Gordon
Sato. As a graduate student, she was first introduced to the
SIVB through meetings organized by the local California Branch
of the Tissue Culture Association. After receiving a PhD in
molecular and cell biology from UCLA, she joined the Society
in 1979. She was elected as an officer in the Vertebrate Section,
serving as Secretary (88-90), Vice Chairman (90-92) and Chairman
(92-94). She was one of the founding members of the Toxicology
Section, and has been a member of the Program, Constitution
and Bylaws, Publications, Laboratory Materials and Biosafety,
and Development Committees at various times over the years.
She was an officer of the SIVB for four years, serving as Vice
President, Development (1994-96) and as Treasurer (1996-98).
During most of these years she was employed as the director
of the Cellular Genetics Program at SRI International in Menlo
Park, CA. She was a principal investigator on NIH grants and
contracts, with projects ranging from genetic toxicology to
in vitro pharmacology studies with retinoids and other potential
chemopreventive agents. Since 1996 she has worked as a consultant
and scientist to apply proteomic technologies to the analysis
of mammalian cells, and has continued to organize workshops
and symposia for the SIVB annual meetings. She feels fortunate
to have met many wonderful friends and talented scientists though
the SIVB and is proud to be a recipient of both the society's
Distinguished Service Award and the Vertebrate Section Fellow
Award. |
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 Amy
Wang
Amy Wang received her MS degree in Biochemistry from Indiana
University in 1990. Since 2001, Amy has worked as a Senior
Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Her research is focused
on metabolic diseases using mammalian cells.
Prior to her work with GSK, Amy was an Advanced Scientist
with Rhone-Poulenc Ag Co from 1993-2001. She was involved
in establishing insect cell cultures for insecticide screening
and gene expression using Bacularviruses. She also coordinated
a research project between Rhone-Poulenc Ag. Co. and the USDA
Laboratory, characterizing the insect neruonal-like cell lines
that she generated.
In 1995, Amy joined SIVB, and soon became an active officer
serving this scientific society. She has held positions such
as scientific advisor, vice president, and president of the
invertebrate section. She has been a member of the program
committee since 1997. Amy has used her leadership skills to
overcome the difficulties of raising funds for each year's
program since 1996. All of her hard work paid off, as this
year was the first time that the invertebrate section independently
raised funding for an international conference.
In addition to fundraising, Amy has also organized many outstanding
scientific programs. In 2001, she co-chaired the joint symposium
"Beyond Genome: Functional Genomics." In 2004, she
chaired the 11th International Congress on Invertebrate Cell
and Tissue Culture and working with Dr. Robert Granados and
Dr. Karl Maramorosch, co-chaired the symposium "Molecular
Engineering and Biology of Invertebrate Cell Cultures: A Tribute
to Dr. Thomas Grace and Professor Shangyin Gao." This
conference was a tremendous success.
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