Gary Stacey Professional Service, Awards, and Patents
Professional Appointments and Service
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2006-present
Member, International Advisory Board, Annual Meeting for the International Society for Plant-Microbe Interactions, to be held in Sorrento, Italy, July 21-27, 2006
Nominated and unsuccessfully ran for President of the American Society for Plant Biologists.
Appointed to Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on Biological Sciences, Feb. 21, 2006 to Feb. 16, 2009.
Elected member, National Soybean Genetics Executive Committee, 2005-2008
Associate Editor, Plant Physiology, American Society of Plant Biologists, 2005-
Member, International Advisory Committee, Model Legume Meeting, June 5-9th 2005, Asilomar, California
Panel Member, National Science Foundation, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training program (IGERT), January, 2005
Member, International Organizing Committee, International Congress on Legume
Genomics and Genetics, Brisbane, Australia, 2006
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), Public Affairs Committee, 2004-2008;
Chair of committee, 2006-2008
Treasurer, International Society of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
(ISMPMI), 2003-present
Affymetrix Soybean GeneChip Design Steering Committee, 2003
Elected Member, International Society of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
(ISMPMI) Board of Directors, 2003-2007
Member, International Advisory Committee, 6th European Nitrogen Fixation Congress,
Toulouse, France, July 24-27, 2004
Member, International Advisory Committee, 2nd International Congress of Legume
Genomics and Genetics, Dijon, France, June 7-11, 2004
Member, International Advisory Committee, 13th International Congress on Biological
Nitrogen Fixation, Beijing, China, November 1-6, 2003
Co-editor, “Legume” Special Issues, 2003 and 2005, Plant Physiology, American Society of Plant Biologists,
Monitoring Editor, Plant Physiology, American Society of Plant Biologists, May, 2002-2005
Member, International Organizing Committee, International Congress on Legume
Genomics and Genetics, Minneapolis, MN, July, 2002
Member, Local Organizing Committee, North American Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation
Conference, Columbia, MO, June, 2002
Invited Participant, USB sponsored, IFAFS grants workshop, St. Louis, MO, November
13, 2001
Invited Participant, Workshop on Legume Genomics, Baltimore, MD, 2001
Member, Steering committee, Soybase Genome Database, 2001
International Advisory Committee, 10th International Congress on the Molecular Biology
of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Madison, WI, 2001.
International Advisory Committee, 13th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, July 3-7, 2001.
Panel Member, Ontario Genomics Institute, Canada, December, 2000.
Panel Member, USDA-NRI Competitive Grants Program, Plant-Microbe Interactions
Program, May, 2000, June, 2001.
Panel Member, National Science Foundation, Microbial Observatories Program, June,
1999.
Advisory Board, National Science Foundation Soybean Genome Center, University of
Illinois, 1999-2002.
International Advisory Committee, 9th International Congress on the Molecular Biology
of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1999.
International Advisory Committee, 12th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation,
Foz do Iguazu, Parana State, Brazil, September 12-17, 1999.
Invited regular contributor, Horizons section, Trends in Microbiology, Elsevier Press,
1997-1998
Senior Editor, Prokaryotic symbiosis, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 1995-1997
Member, Genetics Study Section, National Science Foundation, 1994, 1995, 1996
Founding editor, co-editor-in-chief, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Chapman and Hall, Publ.
Co., 1995- 1997; this book series is now published by the American
Phytopathological Society, 1998-2003
Guest Editor, Plant Molecular Biology, 1992
Associate Editor, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 1991-1994
ad hoc member, Microbial Physiology and Genetics Study Section, National Instutites of
Health General Medical Sciences, June, 1990 and October, 1992.
Editorial Board, J. Bacteriol., 1989-2003
Member, Editorial Board, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1986, 1989, 1989,
1992
Member Biological Nitrogen Fixation Study Section, USDA, 1985
University of Tennessee Faculty Research Award, 1982,1986
Awards and Honors:
Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Achievement, Univ. of Tennessee, 1992
van der Klaauw Chair of Molecular Biology, Visiting Professorship at the Univ. of
Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1990
Research Fellowship, Alexander Von Humboldt Stiftung, 1988
University of Tennessee Faculty Development Leave Award, 1988
Sigma Xi
Member of the Faculty of the Science Alliance Center of Excellence, 1984-1995
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1979
Robert A. Welch Predoctoral Fellowship,1977-1978
Univ. of Texas Office of Graduate Studies Research Support, 1976-1977
Patents:
United States Patent No. 4,966,847, Stacey, G., A.J. Nieuwkoop, and Z. Banfalvi.
Recombinant DNA clones containing a broad host range gene from
Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Oct. 30, 1990.
United States Patent No. 4,983,519, Stacey, G., M.G. Schell, A.J. Nieuwkoop, N. A.
Deshmane, and Z. Banfalvi. Recombinant DNA clones of essential nodulation
genes of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Jan. 8, 1991.
United States Patent No. 5,173,424, Stacey, G., Halverson, L.J., and R. Zablotowicz.
Enhancing nodulating ability of Rhizobium japonicum by incubation with
soybean lectin. Dec. 22, 1992.
United States Patent No. 5,175,149, Stacey, G., Carlson, R.W., and Spaink, H.
Pentasaccharide phytohormones and method for their use. Dec. 29, 1992.
United States Patent No. 5,321,011, Stacey, G., Carlson, R.W., and Spaink, H.
Pentasaccharide phytohormones and method for their use. June 14, 1994.
(Product Optimize based on the two patents above was released for sale in 2004 by Nitragin Corp., Milwaulkee, WI)
United States Patent No. 5, 689,039, Becker, J. and Stacey, G. Plant peptide transport
gene. November 18, 1997.
United States Patent No. 6,080,542, Becker J. and Stacey G. Plant peptide transport gene.
June 27, 2000
United State Patent No. 6,855,536, Loh, J. and Stacey, G., Materials and methods for the
enhancement of effective root nodulation in legumes, Feb. 15, 2005.
Two additional patents pending