Life Sciences Division 1997-98 Progress Report

Life Sciences Division
1997-98
Progress Report

Overview
Mission
Structure

Systems Biology

Technology Applications

Staff Honors, Awards, External Appointments, and Conference Participation, CY 1997-1998

Abston, J. P.

1998 LMER Operations and Support Award for Operations Support (team)
Certified Occupational Health and Safety Technology, American Board of Industrial Hygiene and Board of Certified Safety Professionals

Alarie, J. P.

1997 Royalty Sharing Award for "Fiberoptics Luminoscope and Optical Biopsy"

Allison, D. P.

1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Committee Chair/Organizer, Scanning Probe Microscopy Session, Scanning Microscopy International Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May 1997
Editorial Board, Scanning Microscopy

Allred, J. F.

1998 LMER Operations and Support Award for Operations Support (team)

Bast, C. S.

Diplomate, American Board of Toxiciology, 1998-2003

Beattie, K. L.

Workshop Organizer, "New Genomics Technologies," 1998 Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society, Anaheim, California, March 1998
National Institutes of Health Review Panel, July 1998

Beatty, B. R.

Chair, ORNL Animal Care and Use Committee
Board of Directors, Appalachian Branch of American Association of Laboratory Animal Science
Awards Committee, Association for Women in Science

Beets, A. L.

1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)

Berven, B. A.

Co-Chair, 1998 Lockheed Martin United Way Campaign
Loaned Executive for United Way of Anderson County, 1998
Chair, 1998 Annual Health Physics Society Meeting, Session on Radon
Member, ORNL Fix-It Committee Member
Member, LMES Library Advisory Committee, 1998
Member, LMES Travel Committee, 1997-1998
LMES Job Evaluation Review Committee
ORNL Competitive Cost Proposal Committee
Member, ORNL Land and Facilities Use committee
Member, ORNL Steering Committee, Integrated Safety Management System
Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Acting Director, Joint Institute for Biological Sciences (UT/ORNL)

Bogard, J. S.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Program Committee, International Conference on Environmental Monitoring and Remediation Technologies, sponsored by the International Society for Optical Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1998
Chairman, HPSSC/ANSI N13.27 Working Group, "Performance Specifications for Pocket-Sized Alarming Dosimeters/Ratemeters"
Member, HPSSC/ANSI N13.22 Working Group, "Bioassay Programs for Uranium"
Member, NCRP Scientific Committee 57, Task Group 15, "Uranium: Radiation Protection Guidelines"
Member, Health Physics Society Laboratory Accreditation Policy Committee

Bunick, G. J.

Member, National Institutes of Health, Biophysical Chemistry Special Study Section, March 1997
Knoxville Gateway Pavilion Exhibit, 1997
Team Leader, Oxford Cryosystem Award, 1997 American Chemistry Associate Meeting
Co-Chair, Life Sciences Section, ORAU/SNS Workshop, 1998
Lecturer, ORNL representative at 1998 Space Day observances
1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Charter Member, Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team (SERCAT)

Carpenter, D. A.

Member, ORNL Animal Care and Use Committee

Casey, D. K.

Member, Human Genome Organization

Chen, C.-H.

Editorial Board, Rapid Communicaitons in Mass Spectrometry
1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment

Coleman, R. L.

Certified, American Board of Health Physics

Crawford, O. H.

Member, Organizing Committee, 1997 Symposium on Fundamental Physics in Microscopy and Microanalysis, Chicago, Illinois, May 1997
Member, Organizing Committee, 17^th Werner Brandt Workshop on Charged Particle Penetration, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 1997

Davidson, K. A.

ORNL/ARAU Institutional Review Board, 1998

Doktycz, M. J.

1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)

Easterly, C. E.

Member, Safety-controls Optimations by Performance Evaluation (SCOPE) Experts Panel
National Laboratory Directors' Environmental and Occupational/Public Health Steering Group, ORNL Representative
Liaison, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and National Association of Environmental Professionals
Member, Conference Planning Committee and Session Chair, Non-Lethal III, 1998
Expert, Review Panel for Hanford Tanks Flammable Gas Issue, 1998

Eckerman, K. F.

Adjunct Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) Scientific Committee on Dosimetry and Metabolism of Radionuclides (SC-57)
NCRP Scientific Committee on Radionuclides in the Environment (SC-64)
International Council on Radiation Protection (ICRP) Committee 2 on Secondary Limits
ICRP Task Group on Dose Calculations, Chairman
ICRP Task Group on Reference Man, Chairman
ICRP Task Group on Internal Dosimetry (ex officio member)
ICRP Task Group on a Dosimetric Model for the Alimentary Tract (ex officio member)
National Research Council Committee on Risk Assessment of Radon in Drinking Water

Egidi, P. V.

Health Physics Society Working Group on NORM

Ferrell, T. L.

Research Professor, Physics Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Foltz, C. J.

Adjunct Professor, Division of Comparative Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Diplomate, American College of Laboratory Medicine

Gambrell, S. C.

Member, ORNL Committee for Women
Member, ORNL Administrative Computing Steering Committee
Member, ORNL Year 2000 Committee

Gipson, L. C.

1997 LMER Operations and Support Award for Administrative Support

Gresalfi, M. J.

Member, U.S. Commission on People with Disabilities
Senior Washington, D.C., Representative to ORO-based DOE National Center of Excellence for Metals Recycle

Griffin, G. D.

Judge, Biochemistry Section, Intel Internation Sciences and Engineering Fair, Louisville, Kentucky, May 1997

Halford, D. K.

President-Elect, Colorado Chapter of the Wildlife Society; Executive Board

Hartman, F. C.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Biological Chemistry
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Protein Chemistry
Member, Site-Review Panel for the Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence (funded by the Canadian National Research Council for protein engineering research at multiple Canadian universities)

Hingerty, B. E.

National Science Foundation, reviewer of NATO postdoctoral fellowship candidates
National Research Council, reviewer of NRC research associate proposals
DOE-OBER representive for Life Sciences on the Energy Research Supercomputer User's Group Executive Committee for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Vice-Chair
ORISE Traveling Lecture Program Speaker; ORISE Tennessee Visiting Scientist, 1997-98

Houser, K. J.

1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Technical Support (team)

James, D. R.

1998 IEEE International Symposium on Electrical Insulation, Publications and Publicity Chair
Member, IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society Subcommittee S-32-11 on Gaseous Dielectrics

Johnson, C. A.

WATTEC Sponsors Committee, Secretary, 1997-98
WATTEC Sponsors Committee, American Women in Science Representative, 1998-99

Kennel, S. J.

1997 Royalty Sharing Award, "Rat Hybridoma 346-11A Reacting with Mouse Protein"
Member, Environmental Protection Agency Review Panel, 1998

Kennel, S. J.

American Chemical Society Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 1997, Session Chair, Radioisotope Chemistry

Kerr, G. D.

Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, Consultant
International Committee on Radiation Protection (ICRP) Committee 2, Task Group for the Revision of Refernce Man, Member

Knapp, F. F., Jr.

LMER Corporate Fellow, 1997
1997 R&D 100 Award, "Development of Modular Technitium-99m Concentrator" (with S. Mirzadeh and E. D. Collins)
Editorial Board, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine (1993-Present)
Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Radiation and Isotopes (1994-Present)
Editorial Board, Journal of Clinical Physiology
ORAU/ORNL Committee for Human Studies (1992-Present)
1997 Annual Meeting, Society of Nuclear Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, June 1997 - Abstract Review Committee, Therapeutics Session; Session Chairman, Radiopharmaceuticals VI
Chairman, Medical Radioisotope Session, Radioisotope Symposium, Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic, April 1998
1998 Annual Meeting, Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, Canada, June 1998 - Abstract Review Committee; Session Chairman, Therapeutics Session and Radiopharmaceuticals VI Session
International Organizing and Program Committee, Seventh World Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Berlin, Germany, August 1998,
Organizer and Chairman, Symposium on Radiopharmaceuticals and Radiopharmacy, Seventh World Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Berlin, Germany, August 1998
1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Co-Editor, Special Issues of Radiochimica Acta (1997) and Nuklearmedizine (September 1998)
Co-Organizer, Fourth International Workshop on Radioiodinated Free Fatty Acids, Dresden, Germany, September 1998

Kocher, D. C.

Member, National Council on Evaluation of EPA Guidelines for Exposure to Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials
Member, DOE Biota Dose Assessment Committee
Member, International Atomic Energy Agency Consultant Groups-"Comparison of Methods for Calculating Health and Environmental Impacts Due to Radioactive and Non-Radioactive Agents in Waste from Electricity and Generation" and "The Use of Safety Indicators, Complementary to Dose and Risk, in the Assessment of Radioactive Waste Disposal"

Kuritz, T.

Adjunct Professor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Center for Environmental Biotechnology
National Research Council, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Reviewer

Larimer, F. W.

1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Adjunct Faculty, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Cell, Developmental, and Moleular Biology Program

Leggett, R. W.

Elected to National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, 1998
NCRP Scientific Committee on Dosimetry and Metabolism of Radionuclides (SC-57), Member
NCRP Committee on Uncertainties in Biokinetic and Dosimetric Models (SC-57-16), Member
ICRP Task Group on Internal Dosimetry; Chairman, Subgroup on Reliability of Dose Coefficients
ICRP Task Group on Reference Man, Member
ICRP Task Group on Dose Calculations, Corresponding Member
ICRP Task Group on a Dosimetric Model for the Alimentary Tract, Corresponding Member

Little, C. A.

Associate Editor, Health Physics
Health Physics Society, Program Committee
Member, Health Physics Society Standards Committee, Subcommittee on Environmental Transport Modeling
Adjunct Professor, Department of Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
United Way Campaign Committee, Mesa County, Colorado (1997)
Charter Member, DOE Grand Junction Office Joint Utilization Committee, 1998 (appointed by City Council)

Lu, P. Y.

Chair, American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Health and Safety, 1999-2000
Advisory Committee, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1997-2001
Chair, Program Steering Committee, Chinese-American Academic and Professional Association in the Souteastern United States, 1997-1998
President-Elect, American Chinese Toxciological Society, 1998
Editorial Board, American Chemical Society's Chemical Safety and Health Division, 1998

Lyon, B. F.

International Technology Corporation Commendation for "Contributing Knowledge Among Professionals in the Technical Community," 1998

Mazur, P.

Editorial Board, Cryobiology

McGinn, C. W.

Chair, ORNL Risk Assessment Council

Michaud, E. J.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Member, ORNL Animal Care and Use Committee

Milanez, S.

Diplomate, American Board of Toxicology, 1997-2002

Miller, J. C.

Session Organizer and Co-Chair, DOE Workshop on Instrumentation and Measurement Issues for Nanometer Particles, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1997
Symposium Organizer and Program Committee, Thirteenth Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference, Long Beach, California, October 1997
Advisory Committee, Fourth International Conference on Laser Ablation, Asilomar, California, May 1997
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998
Advisory and Program Committee, Ninth International Conference on Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy, Great Britain, June 1998
Program Committee, Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics, San Francisco, 1998
Advisory and Program Committee, Fifth International Conference on Laser Ablation, Gottingen, 1999
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1995-2000
Editorial Advisory Board, Interactions with Materials, 1998
Divisional Associate Editor, Laser Science, The Physical Review Letters, 1997-2000
Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Recipient, NATO International Collaboration Grant, 1997-1998
National Research Council, Committee on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vice-Chair
University of Tennessee Science Alliance Faculty Research Award Committee, Member
Elected Member, American Physical Society, Executive Committee for the Division of Laser Scieence

Mirzadeh, S.

American Chemical Society, Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Publications Committee (1994-97)
1997 R&D 100 Award, "Development of Modular Technetium-99m Concentrator" (with F. F. Knapp and E. D. Collins)
1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Member, DOE Second Biannual Workshop on "Alpha-Emitters for Medical Therapy," June 1998, Toronto, Canada
Organizer and Co-Chair, Symposium on "Chelated Metal Ions in Diagnosis and Therapy" under auspices of Divisions of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology and Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, National Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 1998
Member, Special Study Section, National Institutes of Health

Mumby, M. E.

Certified Well Driller by NGWA
Licensed Kentucky Monitoring Well Driller
Registered Professional Geologist, State of Tennessee and State of Wyoming

Mural, R. J.

Organizer, Sixth International Workshop on the Identification of Transcribed Sequences, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 1997
Organizer, Seventh International Workshop on the Identification of Transcibed Sequences, Monterey, California, November 1998
Member, Quarterly Review Committee, Genome Database
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Digital Genetechnologies, Inc., La Jolla, California
Editor, "Technical Tips Online," Trends in Genetics

Niyogi, S. K.

Organizing Committee, Recent Trends in Genetic Engineering, B.C. Guha Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Calcutta, India, December 1997

Nourse, B. D.

Member, ORNL Risk Assessment Council

Oden, P. I.

1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Adjunct Research Professor, Physics Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Discover Magazine Innovative Technology Award finalist for "Microcantilever Sensor Technology as Applied to Infrared Imaging" (with R. J. Warmack and T. G. Thundat)

Pearson, J.

Steering Committee, Environmental Industry Association's Superfund Conference, Washington, D.C., 1997

Petrov, S.

Organizing Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Semiotech: A Learning Perspective, Gaithersburg, Maryland, September 1997

Pinnaduwage, L. A.

Member, Review Panel for 1997 NSF/DOE Program on Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering, 1997
ORNL/UT Collaborating Scientist, Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Richardson, W. G.

1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Adminstrative Support

Shinpock, S. G.

1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Technical Support (team)

Stevens, A.

Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 1998

Swaja, R. E.

DOE Environmental Assessment Task Group of the Risk Based Standards Working Group, Member
ANSI Committee N13.3 on Neutron Dosimetry
DOE Health Physics Research Award Selection Committee, Member
ORNL Seed Money Committee, Member

Talmage, S. S.

1997 Royalty Sharing Award for "Environmentally Safe Projectiles"

Thundat, T. G.

1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Physics Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Visiting Professor, University of Bourgundy, Dijon, France
Discover Magazine Innovative Technology Award finalist for "Microcantilever Sensor Technology as Applied to Infrared Imaging" (with R. J. Warmack and P. I. Oden)

Triplett, L. L.

1997 LMER Operations and Support Award for Operations Support

Troxel, C. M.

Diplomate, American Board of Toxicology, 1997-2002

Uberbacher, E. C.

1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Member, Genome Sequence Database Advisory Board, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Member, Genome Database Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins
Member, NIH Genome Program Review Committee
Member, NIH Genome Program Functional Genomics Review Committee
Member, DOE Human Genome Coordinating Committee
Program Committee, Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Greece, 1997
Program Committee, Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Toronto, 1998
Organizing Committee and Genomics Session Organizer, Third Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 1998
Informatics Advisory Board and Scientific Advisory Board, SmithKline Beachem

Vo-Dinh, T.

Chairman, ASTM Subcommittee on Fiberoptics
Co-Chairman, Conference on Biomedical Sensing, Imaging and Tracking Technologies II, San Jose, California, February 1997
Chairman, Commission V.4 on Spectrochemical and Other Optical Procedures for Analysis, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Topical Editor, Journal of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds
Associate Editor, Analusis
Editorial Board, Applied Spectroscopy
Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedical Optics
1998 Lockheed Martin Technology Commercialization Award (first annual recipient)
Co-Chairman, Conference on Biomedical Sensing, Imaging and Tracking Technologies III, San Jose, California, 1998

Warmack, R. J.

1997 LMER Technical Achivement Award for Research Accomplihsment (team)
1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
American Museum of Science and Energy, Tennessee Technology Award for "Microcantilevers for Infrared Imaging," 1998
Discover Magazine Innovative Technology Award finalist for "Microcantilever Sensor Technology as Applied to Infrared Imaging" (with P. I. Oden and T. G. Thundat)

Wassom, J. S.

Managing Editor, Mutation Research, 1973-97
Resource Editor, Mutation Research, 1998-Present
Committee Chair, Technical and Archives Committee and Member, Program and Communication Committee, Environmental Mutagen Society

Watson, A. P.

Member, Army Science Board (1996-Present) and Chair of Chemical/Biological Agent Independent Assessment for the Theater Missile Defense Lethality Study (U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command) (1997-Present)
Member, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1995-Present
Member, Toxicology Review Board, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 1992-Present
Member, Biomedical Technology Area Review and Assessment Panel, Department of Defense, Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, 1997-98

Xu, Y.

1997 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment (team)
Program Committee, 1997 International Conference on Imaging Science, Technology and Systems
Co-Chair, Special Track on Gene Identification on Large-Scale Genomic Sequences, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 1997
1998 LMER Technical Achievement Award for Research Accomplishment

Young, R. A.

Councilor, Southeast Chapter Society of Toxicology
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Toxicology, Subcommittee on Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Hydrofluorocarbons

Yuracko, K. L.

AAAS Selection Committee for the Technology Policy Fellowship Program
Member, ASME Risk and Life Cycle Analysis Research Committee
ORNL Liaison to Community of Science