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Scientists Win Top Research AwardsBy Jan Suszkiw February 13, 2002WASHINGTON, Feb.
13Medical veterinary officer Donald P. Knowles of Pullman, Wash., has
been named "Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of the Year" by
the Agricultural Research Service for
his leadership in developing new methods to diagnose animal diseases. ARS is
the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief
scientific research agency. Knowles, who heads ARS'
Animal Disease Research
Unit at Pullman, will be honored at a Feb. 13 ceremony at the
Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural
Research Center in Beltsville, Md., where he and 15 other ARS researchers
will receive plaques and cash awards in recognition of their scientific
accomplishments. "Dr. Knowles has been the driving force behind research leading to new
diagnostic tools with which we can now more accurately detect infections caused
by disease agents such as Anaplasma marginale in cattle," said
Edward B. Knipling, acting administrator of ARS. At the Pullman lab, Knowles led scientists in studies resulting in an
accurate new test to detect A. marginale, the parasite that causes
anaplasmosis, a tickborne disease that's responsible for an estimated 50,000 to
100,000 cattle deaths per year. The Pullman scientists' test checks for natural antibodies that bind to
parasite proteins in blood samples. In collaboration with ARS, USDA's
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service is using the test to survey cattle in tick-infested areas of the
United States. The Canadian Food Inspection
Agency also has used the test to diagnose infections in cattle as well as
bison. Other diagnostic tests developed under Knowles' leadership include tools for
detecting scrapie in sheep, piroplasmosis in horses and bovine spongiform
encephalopathy in cattle. Knowles, who has been with ARS for 12 years, is
senior inventor or co-inventor on five patents, and is an author or co-author
on 63 scientific papers and 18 book chapters.  More about Glenn: Research |
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On Feb. 13, ARS will honor three
other agency researchers as Outstanding Senior Research Scientists. They are: - David Michael Glenn, ARS Appalachian
Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, W.Va., for conceptualizing,
developing and transferring to industry a particle film composed of processed
kaolin, a type of clay that controls pests and boosts plant productivity in an
environmentally safe manner.
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- George E. Inglett, National Center for
Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, Ill., for creating four hugely
successful technologies derived from grains--Oatrim, Nutrim, Soytrim and
Z-trim, used as fat replacers, phytonutrients, and nutraceuticals--that have
contributed to improved foods for greater health benefits to people around the
word.
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about Meredith: Award - William R. Meredith Jr.,
Crop Genetics
and Production Research, Stoneville, Miss., for outstanding research to
provide the cotton industry with valuable insights on improving fiber yield and
quality.
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about Burton: Research | Award ARS also is honoring four Area
Senior Research Scientists: - Joseph W. Burton,
Soybean and
Nitrogen Fixation Research Unit, Raleigh, N.C., South Atlantic Area, for
developing Satelite and other new varieties of soybean with low saturated fat,
improved protein and oil quality, and other important traits.
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about Moore: Research |
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Production and Safety Research Unit, Fayetteville, Ark., Southern Plains
Area, for research to help solve major agricultural problems such as chicken
manure runoff. He discovered that adding certain compounds, such as aluminum
sulfate, to litter in commercial poultry houses greatly reduces phosphorus
runoff.
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about Panter: Award - Kip E. Panter, Poisonous Plant Research
Laboratory, Logan, Utah, Northern Plains Area, for research on the mode of
action and effects of plant toxins on livestock, including poisonous
plant-induced birth defects in livestock and development of animal models to
expedite the study of similar defects observed in humans.
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- Morse B. Solomon, Food Technology and Safety
Laboratory, Beltsville, Md., Beltsville Area, for developing a process
using water pressure to tenderize meat cuts and reduce spoilage from organisms
and pathogens such as Escherichia coli O157:H7.
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about Suarez: Research |
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L. Rothbart Outstanding Early Career Research Scientist" award is David L.
Suarez, Southeast Poultry Research
Laboratory, Athens, Ga., South Atlantic Area, for research on the genetic
mechanisms by which mild avian influenza virus strains become more virulent and
cause disease in poultry. More
about Bergman: Award Other Area Early Career Research
Scientist award winners are: - Christine J. Bergman, Rice
Research Unit, Beaumont, Texas, Southern Plains Area, for research on
genetic factors controlling milling properties, kernel structure, starch
characteristics and other traits in rice and wheat.
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about Briggs: Award - Connie E. Briggs, Microbial
Biophysics and Residue Chemistry Research Unit,
Eastern Regional Research Center,
Wyndmoor, Pa., North Atlantic Area, for research contributing to the
identification of genetic, biochemical and metabolic features of agriculturally
important organisms, including trout, beneficial insects and microbes such as
bacteria, fungi and viruses.
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- Franck E. Dayan, Natural
Products Utilization Research Unit, National Center for Natural Products
Research, Oxford, Miss., Mid-South Area, for ground-breaking discoveries on the
use of natural products as pesticides.
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- Timothy P. Smith, Production Systems Research Unit,
Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research
Center, Clay Center, Neb., Northern Plains Area, for research to develop
and use genetic maps of cattle and swine in support of the livestock industry.
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- Tad S. Sonstegard, Gene
Evaluation and Mapping Laboratory, Beltsville, Md., Beltsville Area, for
bovine genome research and molecular genetic tools leading to a better
understanding of livestock reproduction and lactation physiology.
Story contacts Food Technology and Safety Laboratory Microbial Biophysics and Residue Chemistry Research Bioproduct Chemistry and Engineering Research Poisonous Plant Research Rice Research Crop Genetics and Production Research Poultry Research Soybean and Nitrogen Fixation Research Jan R Suszkiw U.S. Department of Agriculture | |