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AIP research staff history  Research leaders  |  Research staff  |  Posdoctoral research associates  |  Visiting scientists  |  Visiting students  Research leaders **Year**
**Research leader**
**Career after AIP**1908
Helmer Rabild  |  Photo
Managed milk processing plants in Pennsylvania1925
Joseph Parker & John McLain
Became extension specialists1929
John McDowell1938
Frank Kendrick  |  Photo
Established a USDA computing center in Washington, DC1962
Robert (Bob) H. Miller |  Photo
Became research leader for the Genetics and Management Laboratory and then the Milk Secretion and Mastitis Laboratory1963
Ernest Corley  |  Photo
Became chief of the Dairy Cattle Research Branch and then assistant to the administrator for the Agricultural Research Service1966
R. Dean Plowman  |  Photo
Became administrator of the Agricultural Research Service and then acting assistant secretary for USDA1969
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 liaison2012
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  Research staff **Years**
**Staff member**1960–72
Benjamin (Ben) T. McDaniel1970–2011
H. Duane Norman1972–75
Jeffrey (Jeff) F. Keown1972–2005
Rex L. Powell1973–2011
Leigh M. Walton1974–82
Evelyn F. Myers1975–79
Bennet G. Cassell1977–2000
William (Wes) E. Shainline, Jr.1978–2016
George R. Wiggans1979
Alfred (Al) L. Kuck1980–2017
Janice (Jan) R. Wright1980–2021
Suzanne M. Hubbard1981–2019
Lillian R. (King) Bacheller1984–91
Cynthia A. Ernst1988–2018
Frank A. Ross, Jr.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. Sanders2002–08
Melvin T. Kuhn2002–18
Melvin (Mel) E. Tooker2003–08
Laura L.M. Thornton (Melton)2003–20
John B. Cole2004
Robert (Rob) C. Goodling, Jr.2009–16
Tabatha A. Cooper2012–2016
Derek M. Bickhart  Postdoctoral research associates **Years**
**Researcher**
**Country of origin**
**Research project**1982–83
Waheed A. Mohammad
India
Effects of pregnancy1984–85
Thomas (Tom) J. Lawlor, Jr.
USA
Effect of selection on parameter estimation1988–89
Martin Sieber
Germany
Conversion formulas1991–94
Michael (Mike) M. Schutz
USDA
Somatic cell score (SCS) evaluation, age adjustment1991–95
Todd R. Meinert
USA
Accuracy of data1996–97
Yang Da
China
Genetic markers1996–97
Curtis (Curt) P. Van Tassell
USA
Variance components2002–04
Elizabeth (Liz) Hare
USA
Reproduction and its relationships with other traits2009–11
Katrina (Katie) M. Olson
USA
Multibreed genomic evaluations, breed determination from genomics, genomic validation, across-country genomic evaluations2012–14
Chuanyu Sun
China
Genomic evaluation models2014–16
Kristen Parker Gaddis
USA
Genomics of fertility-related traits2017–18
Heather Bradford
USA
Effect of pedigree error on genomic selection2018–19
Bingjie Li
China
Feed intake prediction reliabilities and marker effects2019–21
Juan Pablo Nani
Argentina
Ancestor discovery, genomic inbreeding  Visiting scientists **Years**
**Researcher**
**Country of origin**
**Research project**1974
Frank D. Murrill
USA
DHIA organization1979–80
Michael (Mike) Grossman
USA
Goat data analysis1981
Max F. Rothschild1982
Abraham Genizi
Israel
Lactation adjustments1982–83
Joel I. Weller
Israel
Prediction errors, parity differences1989
Andrzej (Andy) Żarnecki
Poland
10-nation Holstein comparison1992
Wilfried Brade
Germany
Dominance and epistatis1993–94
Joel I. Weller
Israel
Genetic marker analysis1994
Jeong-Koo Lee
South Korea
Effects of pregnancy1999–2000
Theodore (Ted) A. Ferris
USA
Test-day models2000
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 effects2015–16
Kun Wang
China
Determination of genetic markers with large effects on economically important trait2016–17
Joel I. Weller
Israel
Determination of actual polymorphisms responsible for economic trait variation in dairy cattle2017
Yang Da
USA
Alternative genomic evaluation models2020
Ahmed Sallam
Egypt
Genome wide association for new conformation traits  Visiting students **Years**
**Researcher**
**Country of origin**
**Research project**1986
Gert J. Nieuwhof
Netherlands
Calving interval and herdlife1987
Pauline M. van Diemen
Netherlands
Age adjustment for goats1990
Frits C. van der Shans
Netherlands
International type comparison1990
Alfons Koorhuis
Netherlands
Offspring-parent regressions1992, 1993
Eric J.H. Klaaskate
Netherlands
Productive life1993
Jan Zuurbier
Netherlands
Calculation of inbreeding1994
Ming-Feng Luo
China
Conformation in goats1999, 2000
Jeanne Bormann
Belgium
Test-day data2013
Chen Yao
USA
Multibreed stillbirth evaluation and organization of feed efficiency database2013–14
Adriana García-Ruiz
Mexico
Genomic selection and genetic progress2016–17
Mariana Berton
Brazil
Association of copy number variants with Nelore beef traits2016–17
Tatiane Chud
Brazil
Detection of genomic effects for crossbred dairy cattle  *Compiled by Paul VanRaden*


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