Honors & Recognition
Section Editor Encyclopedia of Virology, 4th edition, 2017-2020
Member, Editorial Board, Viruses, 2015-2020
Elected chair of the Fungal Virus Subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), 2011-2014. Also elected as a member of the Executive Committee of ICTV for a three-year term
Edited a thematic issue of Advances in Virus Research on “Mycoviruses” published by Elsevier in April 2013
Awarded a patent (number 7,618,815; viral vectors useful in soybean and methods of use) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on November 17, 2009
Fellowship in Virology, awarded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of
Science - visited major centers for excellence in Virology and presented lectures, April-May 2009.
Associate Editor, the Encyclopedia of Virology, 3rd Edition, 2005-2008
Fellow, The American Phytopathological Society, elected in July 2002
Local host and Chair of the Organizing Committee - the annual meeting of the American Society for Virology held in Lexington, KY July 20-24, 2002
Life-time Membership Award, the American Society for Virology, awarded in 2002
Member, Awards and Honors Committee, The American Phytopathological Society, elected in August 2002
Member, Editorial Board for the Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology 1998-2000
Chair, Study Group on Partitiviruses and Chrysoviruses, the International Committee for the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) 1999-present.
Consultant for Monsanto in the area of Plant Virology (soybean viruses), 2000-2001
Senior Editor - Phytopathology - 1994-1996.
Convenor, Workshop on “Viral entry and replication. ” Fifth International Symposium on Double-stranded RNA viruses. Djerba, Tunisia. March 1995
Chairman, Fungal Virus Subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) 1987-1993
Member, Executive Committee of ICTV, 1987-1993
Member, Fungal Virus Subcommittee of the ICTV, 1984-present
Member, International Program Advisory Committee, International Congress of Virology, International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), 1991- 1999
Consultant to the Monsanto Co. in the area of Fungal Virology, 1989-1991