Gleanings

Joseph Kemnitz, Ph.D., became WRPRC Interim Director Sept. 1. Former Director John Hearn, Ph.D., accepted a scientific consultancy position with the World Health Organization. Kemnitz is Associate Director of Research Services and Development, and Co-Chair of our Aging and Metabolic Diseases Research Group. A campus search committee expects to name our new director this summer.

Carol L. Emerson, D.V.M., M.S., A.C.L.A.M., began March 1 as research assistant veterinarian. She was previously senior veterinarian at the University of Washington Regional Primate Research Center. Her interests include inherited anemias, neurofibromatosis, alcoholism research and nonhuman primate behavior and enrichment.

Pam Tannenbaum, Ph.D., joined David Abbott's Physiological Ethology Group Feb. 1 as a postdoctoral research associate. She earned her degree in psychobiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and worked at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center Field Station under WRPRC alumni Kim Wallen.

Leonid Iakoubov, Ph.D., started as an assistant scientist in David Pauza's Immunology and Virology Group Jan. 7. His interests include ontogenetic changes in natural autoantibody repertoire and the beneficial role of autoantibodies for the host. He has more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals and several patents and patent applications.

Peicheng Jing, M.S., joined David Watkin's lab as an associate research specialist Dec. 2. He earned his degree in Pharmacy at UW-Madison last fall.

Ze Huang, M.D., joined our Aging and Metabolic Diseases Group as an assistant scientist Oct. 1, studying variants of the insulin receptor. She recieved a minority supplement from the National Institute on Aging.

Barry Bavister, Ph.D., earned a competing renewal of a National Institute of Child Health and Development grant to study regulation of preimplantation embryo development in hamsters and rhesus monkeys. The four-year, $1.6 mil-lion grant is part of a four-lab consortium in the U.S. and Canada. Dorothy Boatman, Ph.D., supervises the project. The lab also received a three-year, $180,000 United States Department of Agriculture grant to study oocyte maturation in cattle, which may be a useful model for primates.

David Pauza, Ph.D., Immunology and Virology Group chair, has been awarded $1 million over four years from the NIH to fund his work on the selection and spread of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) after mucosal infection in rhesus monkeys. His group studies pertussis toxin as a tool to evaluate lymphocyte trafficking and its role in AIDS.

Weizhi Ji, Ph.D., was a visiting professor in Barry Bavister's lab for six months in 1996.

Maria Bernardete Sousa, Ph.D., (featured in this issue) is a visiting scientist in our Physiological Ethology Group.