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Biographies
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Tom
Teper – Preservation Workshop Tom
Teper – Preservation Workshop Tom Teper is the Head of Preservation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His previous experience has included serving as the Preservation Reformatting Librarian at the University of Kentucky and a two-year appointment with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Nuala
Bennett – Preservation Workshop Nuala A. Bennett is currently the Interim Coordinator of the Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative (DIMTI) at the University of Illinois. She is also the Project Coordinator for the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded project, Teaching with Digital Content, at the University of Illinois. She is a co-Principle Investigator on two additional Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded projects, the Collection Registry Project and the Metadata Repository Project, and on the Illinois statewide digitization training project, Beyond the Basics. Nuala holds a B.A. from Trinity College, Ireland in Computational Linguistics and an M.S. from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. Joy
Paulson – Preservation Workshop Joy Paulson
is the Preservation Librarian at Mann Library, Cornell University.
Besides traditional preservation responsibilities, she plays
a central role in digital library reformatting projects and
participates on committees and advisory boards at Cornell that
develop digital imaging and digital preservation projects, policies,
and services. Two of the major digital projects she has worked
on are Dr.
Lei Liu – Bioinformatics Workshop As the founding director of the bioinformatics unit, Dr. Lei Liu joined the W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics in 1999. Prior to coming to the University of Illinois, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow for two years at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut, where he also received a Ph.D. in cell biology. His expertise is in the areas of comparative genomics, biological databases, and data mining. Dr.
Lawrence B. Schook – Bioinformatics Workshop Professor Schook's research interests focus on functional genomics, with an emphasis on optimizing intestinal function to promote animal health and productivity. His laboratory is focused on using comparative genomics to study animal health and development across species. Ongoing studies include a functional nutritional genomics project in collaboration with Professor George Fahey. This model is exploring the changes in gene expression during growth in young dogs compared to aged animals on different diets. These studies are designed to identify pathways that lead to wellness in aged animals and how through nutritional intervention diseases of aged animals can be avoided or ameliorated. Professor Schook's lab is also working establish in vitro gastrointestinal epithelial systems as technology platforms to study changes in gene expression during responses to pathogens. Finally, another major focus in their research program is to develop animal models based on functional genomics to study mucosal development. In collaboration with Professor Rex Gaskins, of the UIUC Department of Animal Sciences, they are developing artificial intestinal crypts using microtechnology and laser capture microscopy to explore gene expression of individual cells as they differentiate from the crypt stem cells. This will allow them to identify regulatory signals from nutritional sources and endogenous microbiota promoting epithelial differentiation. Professor
Schook received his B.A. from Albion College, his Ph.D.in 1978
at the Wayne State School of Medicine, and held Postdoctoral
Fellowships at the Institute of Clinical Immunology, Berne Switzerland
and the University of Michigan. Professor Schook has been at
the University of Illinois since 1986. Paula
T. Kaufman – Welcome Paula Kaufman moved to her current position as University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September 1999 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she had been Dean of Libraries since 1988. Prior to taking that position she served at the Columbia University Libraries as Acting Vice President, Director of Academic Information Services, Director of Library Services, Acting Head of the East Asia Libraries, and Business Library. She also has considerable experience in the private sector at McKinsey and Company and as partner and co-founder of Information for Business. Ms. Kaufman has written and made presentations on a number of issues pertaining to scholarly information, privacy, copyright and leadership. Among her recent publications are “9/11 Legislation and Technology: The Academic Impact,” with Peter Siegel (Educause Review, 9-10/02), “Where Do the Next ‘We' Come From? Recruiting, Retaining, and Developing Our Successors.” (ARL Bimonthly Report, April 2002), “Whose Good Old Days Are These? A Dozen Predictions for the Digital Age” (Journal of Library Administration 2001),"Structure and Crisis: Markets and Market Segmentation in Scholarly Publishing". In The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources in 21st University Universities by Hawkins, Brian and Battin, Patricia. (CLIR and AAU, 1998), "Looking Over Electronic Shoulders: Privacy in 21st Century Libraries" in The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century. (Purdue University Press, 1999), and "I Never Harmed an Onion, So Why Should It Make Me Cry?" in Tennessee Librarian, Fall 1995. Her recent presentations include “Copyrights and Copywrongs”, “Academic Journals and Academic Libraries”, “Copyright in the United States and Japan: Storming the Barriers to Access”, “These are the Good Old Days”, “The Web is Not a Library”, “What Keeps Me Up at Night: The Future of Academic Librarianship” and "There are No Magic Bullets and I'm Not Superwoman: Doing More With Less”. Ms. Kaufman has served the profession with board memberships in the Center for Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Illinois Computer Services Organization, the Research Libraries Group, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and Solinet; she has just completed her presidential year of the Association of Research Libraries. Eric
Sachs – Keynote Speaker Dr. Sachs is currently Director, Scientific Affairs, Monsanto, where he is focused on biotechnology stewardship and issues management. He joined Monsanto in 1978 and is widely known for his strong commitment to biotechnology stewardship, communications, education, and industry responsibility. He is Chairman of the Agricultural Biotechnology Stewardship Technical Committee, a coalition of biotechnology companies committed to addressing scientific issues central to responsible stewardship of agricultural systems. He regularly collaborates with university and government scientists, advocates science-based policy to regulatory agencies, and interacts with consumer media on a range of biotechnology issues and topics. He frequently participates in media outreach, focusing on issues central to biotechnology acceptance. Key areas include explaining the process of biotechnology product development and safety assessment, as well as, the economic, environmental, and consumer benefits delivered by current and future technologies. In his previous position as Business Director and Team Leader, Dr. Sachs was responsible for the development, commercialization, and global expansion of Monsanto's YieldGard Bt corn technology. Working with industry colleagues and university scientists, he has helped to achieve reasonable, practical, and science-based regulation of Bt crops that can be readily implemented in the farming community. Dr. Sachs earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Botany from the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. in Genetics from Texas A&M University. He is married, has two children (ages 21 and 17), and lives in Chesterfield, Missouri. Brian
Wansink – Luncheon Speaker Professor Wansink's research focuses on how and why marketing variables influence the usage frequency and volume of functional foods and packaged goods. Among his numerous publications are two (published with Junyong Kim) in the area of biotechnology: "The Consumer Marketing of Biotechnology," in the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, and "The Marketing Battle Over Genetically Modified Foods: False Assumptions About Consumer Behavior," in American Behavioral Scientist. Professor Wansink is the founder and Director of the Food and Brand Lab, which investigates why consumers buy what they buy and eat what they eat. (http://www.consumerpsychology.net/) He has appeared on 20/20 and on The Learning Channel (TLC), and his research has been reported on the front pages of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. . Professor Wansink holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from Stanford University, a M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Drake University, and a B.S. in Business Administration from Wayne State University. Prior to coming to the University of Illinois in 1997 Prof. Wansink held positions at University of Pennsylvania, Vrije Universteit, Netherlands, and Dartmouth College. He was a marketing consultant, with the U.S. Small Business Administration and an account executive at Wesley-Carroll Advertising Agency. Peter
Young – NAL Update Peter R. Young was appointed Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in June 2002 where he leads and directs NAL's programs in the agricultural, natural, life, and related sciences serving the US Department of Agriculture and the nation. With an annual budget of $20 million, Young directs a staff of 250+. Previously, from 1997 to 2002, he served at the Library of Congress (LC) as Chief of the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) and as Acting Chief of the Asian Division. From 1990 to 1997 he was Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), an independent executive branch agency advising the President and Congress on library and information service policies. Additionally, Mr. Young has held positions in national, academic, and research libraries including CL Systems, Rice University Libraries, Franklin and Marshall College Library, the American University Library and the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Public Library. He also served in the information industry, directing Faxon's Academic Information Services and he founded the Faxon Institute for Advanced Studies in Scholarly and Scientific Communications (1988-1990). Recent addresses include “Electronic Services and Library Performance: A Definitional Challenge” at the Fourth Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services in Pittsburgh, PA. Aug 2001. A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Young holds an A.B. degree in Liberal Arts (Philosophy) from the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH (1966) and an M.S.L.S. degree from Columbia University's School of Library Service (1968). Ann-Marie
Adams – Legislative Update Ann-Marie Adams (M.S. Communication) is presently fulfilling an appointment with the National 4-H Headquarters as part of a Cooperative Service Agreement between Cornell University and CSREES. She served as the Director of Public Relations for Cornell Cooperative Extension and as Assistant Director for Cornell University's Office of Government Affairs, respectfully. In these roles she established a University presence and advanced its interests with state and federal elective bodies on a variety of topics and issues of concern to Cornell, the land grant system, and to the higher education community. She developed and conducted educational programs to inform and guide Cornell senior staff, deans, directors, chairs, faculty, and students on government supported programs, policies, and initiatives that might affect or engage the University's research, education, and outreach roles. She assisted in the development and implementation of strategies aimed at enhancing Cornell faculty access to research programs funded by the Congress and administered by federal executive agencies. Ms. Adams is a frequently requested workshop and conference speaker regarding such topics as organizational communication, designing and developing messages, strategic communication, and working with public officials. She has taught several courses that focus on the study of public communication skills used in business and other professional settings, most recently in the Department of Speech Communication at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Ann-Marie has co-authored several published works that include "Barriers and Enablers to the Adoption of Human Performance Technology or If We're So Smart, Why Aren't We Rich?" "Systems Thinking in Instructional Design," "Establishing the Practices and Philosophy of Performance Technology: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn." |
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