Genetics and Molecular Biology (Bio 50; 1996-present); Strategies of Host-Microbe Interactions (Bio 115; 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004); Plant Molecular Genetics (Bio 272; 1998, 2000, 2003); Advanced Genetics (Genetics 113; selected lectures 2003, 2005); Johnston Honors Seminar “Genetics Research: Design and Experiment” (1998).

John L. Sanders Award: Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching/Service, UNC-CH, 1998.
Prize for Young Researchers, State of Nord-Rhein-Westfalen, Germany, 1991
National Science Foundation Plant Molecular Biology post-doctoral Fellowship, 1986-89

Deutsche Academie der Naturforscher, The Leopoldina, 2003
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2004
 

Other Professional Activities:

Editorial Boards:

Cell (from 1998)
Cellular Microbiology (2003-present)
Current Opinion in Plant Biology (from 1997; co-Editor-in-Chief from 2005)
PLoS Biology (from 2003)
PLoS Pathogens (from 2005)
The Plant Journal (from 1990, co-Editor from 1995)
Trends in Plant Sciences (from 1995)
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction (1995-2004; Senior Editor 1998-2000)

Science, Nature, PNAS, Plant Cell, EMBO Journal, Nature Genetics, Genetics, Trends in Microbiology, Trends in Genetics, Plant Physiology, Nature Biotech., Molecular Microbiology, Physiol. Molec. Plant Pathology

Grant Reviews for:

NIH GVE (Genetic Variation and Evolution) study section, member 2004-present
NIH CDF-1 (Cell and Developmental Function) study section, member 2001-2004 NIH CDF-1 (Cell and Developmental Function) study section, member 2001-2004
NIH (Genetics study section, ad hoc 2000)
NSF (Eukaryotic Genetics Panel, 1996-2000)
Ad hoc reviews for: USDA, DOE, DFG (Germany), BBSRC (United Kingdom), BARD (Israel-USA), Marsden Fund (NZ), HFSP, Swiss National Funds.

Service:

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) Advisory Board, 1999-present.
Keystone Symposia-Plant Biology Study Group 2002-present.
North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC; Elected) 1997-2000.
National Co-coordinator (with Prof. Gerd Juergens), German Research Society (DFG)
Focus Program 1992-1995: “Arabidopsis as a Genetic Model for Plant Development".
NC Biotech Center, Plant Molecular Biology Consortium, Director, 1996-1998.
Int. Society of Plant Molecular Biology, Board of Directors, 2003-2006.

National Research Council:

Chair of Committee, lead author “Plant Genome Research Initiative 2003-2008”.
Member, NRC Board of Life Sciences, 2003-2008.

Invited Seminars and Symposium Presentations (2002-2005):

2005

Duke University, Durham, NC Dept. of Cell Biology
Univ. of Georgia, Genetics, Athens, Ga
Univ. of California, Berkeley, Plant Gene Expression Center
Univ. of California, Davis, Plant Sciences Division
Gatsby Charitable Trust “Plant Biology Advanced Summer School”, Leeds, UK
Int. Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Cancun, Mexico
Gordon Research Conference, “Microbial Adhesion”
13th International Conference on Microbial Genomes, Madison, Wi.
The Salk Institute / UCSD Plant Sciences Seminar

2004

Center for Plant Cell Biology, Univ. of California, Riverside, Riverside, Ca.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Gatsby Charitable Trust, The Future of Plant Quantitative Genetics, London, UK
Biogen Corporation Retreat, “Frontiers in Innate Immunity”, Vermont
Yale University, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Grad. Students Invitation
Fondation les Treilles, “Phylogenetic Perspectives of Innate Immunity”
Gordon Research Conference, “Plant Cell Death” Plymouth, NH
15th International Arabidopsis Research Conference, Berlin, Germany
Institute for Plant Biology, Halle, Germany
Gordon Research Conference, “Plant Molecular Biology”, Holderness, NH
CropSolution, Inc., RTP, NC
Fondacion Juan March, “Plant Disease Resistance”, Madrid, Spain (co-organizer)
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
2nd European Plant Sciences Organization Conference, Ischia, Italy
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC
American Society of Cell Biology, Washington, DC, Symposium Speaker

2003

Keystone Symposium, “Innate Immunity,” Taos, NM
Keystone Symposium “Plant Biology-Cell Death,” Snowbird, UT (co-organizer)
European Plant Science “Flying Professor”

Inst. Science Vegetale, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Laborgenetika, RU, Gent, Belgium
Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Koeln, Germany

2002

Keystone “Signal Transduction and Crosstalk in Plant Biology” Lake Tahoe, Ca.
Keystone “Innate Immunity” Taos, N. M.
University of Missouri, Molecular Biology Week, Columbia, Mo.
The Annual Maize Meeting, Orlando, Fl.
Indiana Univ., Opening of the Genome Science Building, Bloomington, In.
Univ. of Arizona, Plant Biology Graduate Student Invite, Tucson, Az.
Oregon State Univ., Biotechnology Center, Graduate Student Invite, Corvallis, Or.
Dept. of Molecular Biology, MGH, Harvard
Gordon Research Conf., “Plant Signal Transduction”, Plymouth, N.H.
Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, UNC-CH
NIH Workshop “Evolution of Infectious Disease”, Bethesda, Md.
3rd UK GARNET Symposium, York, UK
Biotechnology Center, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Va
Symposium: Functional Genomics of Plant-Microbe Interactions Nancy, France
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Ca.