RALPH S. QUATRANO - PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Ralph S. Quatrano

POSITIONS:

Spencer T. Olin Professor and Chairman of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis 1998-present.
John N. Couch Professor of Biology & Member Curriculum in Molecular Biology & Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1989- 98
Chairman, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1992-97.
Research Manager Molecular Biology, Central Research Dept., Du Pont Co., Wilmington, DE, 1986-89.
Director, Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology, Oregon State University, 1984-86.
Professor of Botany, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1978-1986.
Assistant and Associate Professor of Botany, Oregon State University, 1968-1978.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Honors Graduate, Colgate University, 1962
Carter Award, Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher, College of Science, Oregon State, 1970-71
Elizabeth P. Richie Distinguished Professor Award, Oregon State University, 1979
Distinguished Alumni Award, Ohio University, 1989
Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge University (UK)

RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected):

Editor-In-Chief The Plant Cell 1998-2003. Coeditor - The Plant Cell 1989-95.
Member, Board of Reviewing Editors - Science 1991- 98.
Member, Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation 1997- 2000.
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee: Rockefeller Foundation International Program on Rice Biotechnology, 1990 - present.
President (1992-93) ,Member Executive Committee (1991-94), Chair Public Affairs Committee (1994-97) American Society of Plant Physiologists.
Member, Developmental Biology Panel, National Science Foundation, 1976-79, 91-95.
Member, USDA Panel, Competitive Grants Program1985, 1990; Program Manager 1986.
Ad Hoc Member, NIH Study Sections - Genetics, Molecular Cytology and Molecular Biology

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

INVITED SEMINARS 1992-97:

Leeds University, UK		University California - Davis
Michigan State Univ.		University California - Berkeley
Stazione Zoologica , Naples IT		University of Tubingen, Germany
North Carolina State University		John Innes Center , Norwich, UK
Penn State University		Max Planck Inst. Koln, Germany
University of Arizona		Duke University
USDA Gene Expression Lab		Texas A&M
University of Colorado		New York University
University of Chicago		Stanford University

Carnegie Institution of Washington (Departments of Plant Biology & Embryology)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS (Invited Speaker, 1994-1999):

International Congress of Botany (Plenary Speaker), St. Louis, Aug., 1999
European Developmental Biology Congress, Oslo, Norway, June, 1999
11th Internatl. Workshop - Plant Membrane Biology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, Aug., 1998
Society for Experimental Biology, Annual Meeting, York, UK, March, 1998
Keystone Symposium, Plant Cell Biology (co-organizer), Taos, NM, Jan. 1998
13th International Congress of Developmental Biology (Plenary Speaker), Snowbird, UT, July, 1997
Cold Spring Harbor Symposium (#62), Pattern Formation During Development, May, 1997
NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cellular Signalling Pathways in Plants, Maratea, Italy, May, 1997
19th Symposium in Plant Physiology, Riverside, CA, Jan. 1997
Juan March Foundation, Abscisic Acid Signalling (co-organizer), Madrid, Spain, Oct. 1996
Gordon Conference, Plant Regulatory Mechanisms, July, 1996
FASEB Summer Symp., Signal Transduction in Plants (co-organizer), Copper Mountain, June 1996
Keystone Symposium, Extracellular Matrix of Plants, Tamarron, March, 1996
8th Jacques Cartier Symposium, From Plant to Seed, Lyon, France, December, 1995
Robertson Symposium, Biology of the Cell Surface, Canberra, Australia, October, 1995
Keystone Winter Symposium, Plant Morphogenesis & Signal Transduction, Hilton Head, April1995
FASEB Summer Conference. Plant Cell & Developmental Biology, Vermont, Aug.1994