Curriculum Vitae
Date and Place of Birth: 20 Jan 1931, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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E-mail: andym@ku.edu
Education:
B.S., University of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, N.M., 1952
M.S., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M., 1958
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1961
Positions:
1952-56 Lieutenant, US Navy
1960-61 Instructor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
1961-64 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
1964-70 Associate Professor, Univ. of Kansas (KU), Lawrence
1966-67 Senior Advisor to Universidád de
Oriente,
Venezuela, under Ford Foundation - KU Program
1968-69 Chief-of-Party and Field Representative
for
higher education in the Dominican Republic, AID program.
1969-72 Assistant, Associate Dean of the Graduate
School
1970-96 Professor, KU
1975 Summer visiting
professor,
Texas Tech University
1978 Visiting research
geneticist,
University of California-Riverside
1979-81 Chairman, Department of Botany
1981 Summer visiting
professor,
Universidad Nacionál del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
1984,5 Summer visiting scientist, Division of
Horticulture,
CSIRO, Adelaide, and Merbein, Australia.
1986,7 Summer visiting professor, University of
Colorado
1996 Retired and Professor
Emeritus
Career
Research
Interests:
Late 1950's through the 1960's: Plant cyto- , chemo- and
numerical
systematics of several genera of
Asteraceae [(Zinnia, Tragoceras, Sanvitalia et al.); about 20
publications.
1970's: Isozyme genetics, especially the genetics, structure and
function of sunflower alcohol dehydrogenase isozymes.
(about 10 publications)
Late 1970's through the 1980's: Isozyme genetics of various fruit
tree crops, expecially avocados, citrus, date palms
(about 20 publications including a few book chapters)
Late 1980's to present: Paleontology, especially fossil marine
green
algae (about 14 publications).
Publications:
About 100 in all, including a few unpublished laboratory manuals for
courses
in general genetics, plant morphology and
statistics used in genetics, some in Spanish. Some of the
published
works include:
1967. Prácticas para biología generál. Editoriál Universidád de Oriente, Cumaná, Venezuela. ix + 75 pp.
1968. Algunas plantas leñosas de Cumaná. Editoriál Universidád de Oriente, Cumaná, Venezuela. 134 pp.
1970. With R.L. Costello, R. Smith
and
B. Schmidt. A laboratory manual for General Botany.
Kenall/Hunt
Publishing Company,
Dubuque, Iowa. vi + 217 pp.
1971. With M.W. Katz. Estadística applicada a genética generál. Regional Technical Aids Center, Mexico. 48 pp.
The papers that follow were accounts
of some aspects of the ethnobiology of Amerindians of the Orinoco
delta,
and a report on an
exchange program between the University of Kansas and the
Universidád
de Oriente in eastern Venezuela.
1968. Notas sobre la etnobiología de los Guaraunos. Oriente, Año l, no. 3, pp. 68-81.
1968. Plan KUUDO; An experiment
in a new dimension of university responsibility. Bulletin of the
American Association of University
Professors, 54:85-89.
Some particularly exciting research projects were reported in the following publications:
1974. Sunflower alcohol dehydrogenase: Adh-1 genetics and dissociation-recombination. Biochemical Genetics, 11:17-24. and,
1976. Dissociation-recombination of
intergenic
sunflower alcohol dehydrogenase isozymes and relative isozyme
activities.
Biochemical Genenetics, 14:87-98. These papers report the
first
time that our lab had taken two different dimeric isozymes
apart into their constituent monomers and put them back together
again in new combinations. Now, of course, this process
is no doubt routine.
1978. With U. Diedenhofen, B.O.
Bergh,
and R.J. Knight. Enzyme polymorphisms as genetic markers in
the avocado. American
Journal of Botany, 65:134-139. This was the beginning of
using
fruit crop isozymes as markers to examine different problems
in different crops. My introduction to horticulture
and
to long and wonderful collaborations with horticultural geneticists
Bob Bergh and Bob Soost, UC-Riverside, California. I was
quite
pleased that a scientist from Kansas, where none of these
crops can grow, was involved with starting this field.
1980. Soost, R.K. T.E. Williams and
A.M.
Torres. Identification of nucellar and zygotic seedlings of
Citrus
with leaf isozymes.
Horticultural Science, 15:728-729, and,
1982. With R.K. Soost and T.
Mau-Lastovicka.
Citrus isozymes: Genetics and distinguishing nucellar from
zygotic
seedings. Journal
of Heredity, 73:335-339. An innovative use of
isozymes
to address an age old problem in citrus breeding, identifying the
genetic origins of seedlings from polyembryonic seeds years before
valuable
resources were invested in culturing them.
1999. A three-dimensional CT
(CAT)
scan through a rock with Permian Alga Ivanovia tebagaensis. Journal
of Paleontology,
73:154-158. A detailed study of some morphological features of embedded
alga from nondestructive CT
scans.
2003. With A. M. Christensen, T. E. Masters
and R. A. Ketcham. From CT scan of embedded Ivanovia to models
using
rapid prototyping.
Palaeontology, 46:839-843.
2003. Sexual reproductive structures in the green alga Ivanovia triassica. Lethaia, 36:33-40.
Current research interests include study of
a Triassic Ivanovia from
a Yukon terrane, and attempts to use CT scans of beautifully
preserved Tunisian Ivanovia tebagaensis to make 3-D
models of the cup-shaped macroscopic fossils.
Over the years research has been supported by: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; The National Science Foundation; The University of Kansas Biomed and General Research Funds; The California Avocado Advisory Board; The U.S. Department of Agriculture; The U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund; The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
I have been a consultant for: The American Institutes for Research, The Agency for International Development and The Ford Foundation on matters of Latin American higher education; TheDuPont Company on systematics problems; The Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel, on avocado genetics. The Jacques Seed Company on sunflower isozymes; The Division of Horticulture, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Adelaide and Merbein, Australia on tree crop isozymes.
Foreign Travel and/or research (T) and
Residence
(R): Panama, 1953-55 (R). Venezuela, 1965-67 (R).
Dominican
Republic, 1968 (R). Russia and Northern Europe, 1975 (T).
Europe,
1976, 2002 (T). Argentina, 1981 (T). Israel, l981, 1983
(T).
New Zealand, 1981, 1984, 1985 (T); Australia, 1981, 1984, 1985
(T).
Spain, 1997, 98 (T); Tunisia, 1996 (T); French Polynesia, 2003
(T);
Ireland, 2004 (T,R);Mexico and
Canada
several times;
China, 2007, presented an invited lecture at the Institute of
Geophysics and Geology in Beijing (T); Italy and Croatia, 2007 (T).
Hobbies and Interests: Word origins,
tennis, biking, hiking, stained glass, alpine skiing, microcomputer
applications
to research,
especially 3-dimensional imaging of fossils embedded in rock using CT
scans.
This page was updated in August, 2008.