Robin W. Morgan, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Animal and Food Sciences Delaware Biotechnology Institute 15 Innovation Way University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716-2103 (302) 383-4806 (phone) Email: [email protected] EDUCATION • Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, B.S., Biology, 1977 • The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Ph.D., Biology, 1982 • University of California, Berkeley, California, Post-doctoral fellow, Biochemistry, 1982-1985 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • Dean and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Delaware, July 2002-July 2012 • Acting Dean, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and Director of Cooperative Extension, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Delaware, July 2001-June 2002 • Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Delaware, 2000- 2001 • Professor, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; 1996-present • Joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 1993-present • Joint appointment in the Department of Biology, University of Delaware, 1990- present • Assistant Department Chairperson, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1992-2000 • Associate Professor, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1991-1996 • Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science and Agricultural Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1985-1991 SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIPS • University of Delaware Leadership Council, 2010-2011 • Advisory Board Member, Center for Public Horticulture, 2008-2012 • Board of Trustees, The Independence School, 2009-present • Board of Directors, Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc., 2001-2012 • Board of Trustees, Longwood Gardens, 2005-present • Council of Farm Organizations, 2001-2012 • Panel Member, NIH-NCI SBIR Panel, 2011 • Board of Directors, University of Delaware Technology Corporation, 2007-2009 • Panel Member, Animal Health and Well-Being Virology Panel, USDA-NRICGP, 1993, 1994, 1997 (Manager), 2001 • Participant, SAES Leadership Development Course, 1992-93 • Editorial Board, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, 1985-1992 • Judge, Delaware Junior Science and Humanities Program, 1989-1992 • Phi Kappa Phi • Member of the American Society for Virology, 1985-2004 • Member of the Environmental Mutagen Society, 1982-1993 • Member of the American Society for Microbiology, 1985-2004 • Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science • Associate Member of the American Association of Avian Pathologists FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS • Honorary American FFA Degree, 2012 • Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc. Outstanding Achievement Award, 2009 • AAAP Phibro Animal Health Excellence in Poultry Research Award, 2008 • Honorary State of Delaware FFA Degree, 2003 • P. P. Levine Award, AAAP/AVMA, 1993 • College of Agricultural Sciences Academic Advising Award, 1991 • NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1982-1985 • NIH Predoctoral Training Fellowship, 1977-1982 • Environmental Mutagen Society Travel Award, 1980 • John A. Yarbrough Biology Award, 1976 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 1. Hoffman, George R. and Robin W. Morgan. (1976) The effect of ultraviolet light on the frequency of a genetic duplication in Salmonella typhimurium. Radiation Research 67: 114-119. 2. Hoffman, George R., Robin W. Morgan, and Ralph E. Harvey. (1978) Effects of chemical and physical mutagens on the frequency of a large genetic duplication in Salmonella typhimurium. I. Induction of duplications. Mutation Research 52: 73-80. 3. Hoffman, George R., Robin W. Morgan, and Ruth Kirven. (1978) Effects of chemical and physical mutagens on the frequency of a large genetic duplication in Salmonella typhimurium. II. Stimulation of duplication-loss from merodiploids. Mutation Research 52: 81-86. 4. Morgan, Robin W., Jerrold M. Ward, and Philip E. Hartman. (1981) Detection of mutagens-carcinogens: Carcinogen-induced lesions pinpointed by alkaline phosphatase activity in fixed gastric specimens from rats. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 66: 941-945. 5. Morgan, Robin W., Jerrold M. Ward, and Philip E. Hartman. (1982) Aroclor 1254 induced intestinal metaplasia and adenocarcinoma in the glandular stomach of F344 rats. Cancer Research 41: 5154-5159. Updated August 20, 2013 Page 2 6. Morgan, Robin W. and George R. Hoffmann. (1983) Cycasin and its mutagenic metabolites. Mutation Research 114: 19-58. 7. Hoffman, George R. and Robin W. Morgan. (1984) Review: Putative mutagens and carcinogens in foods. V. Cycad azoxyglycosides. Environmental Mutagenesis 6: 103- 116. 8. Hartman, Philip E. and Robin W. Morgan. (1985) Review: Mutagen-induced focal lesions as key factors in aging. In Molecular Biology of Aging: Gene Stability and Gene Expression, R. S. Sohal, L. Birnbaum, and R. G. Cutler (eds.), Annual Symposium of the American Aging Association, October 19, 1984, pp. 93-136. 9. Christman, Michael F., Robin W. Morgan, Fredric S. Jacobson, and Bruce N. Ames. (1985) Positive control of a regulon for defenses against oxidative stress and some heat shock proteins in Salmonella typhimurium. Cell 41: 753-762. 10. Morgan, Robin W., Michael F. Christman, Fredric S. Jacobson, Gisela Storz, and Bruce N. Ames. (1986) Hydrogen peroxide-inducible proteins in Salmonella typhimurium overlap with heat shock and other stress proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Science (USA) 83: 8059-8063. 11. Jacobson, Fredric S., Robin W. Morgan, Michael F. Christman, and Bruce N. Ames. (1989) An alkyl hydroperoxide reductase from Salmonella typhimurium involved in the defense of DNA against oxidative damage: purification and properties. Journal of Biological Chemistry 264: 1488-1496. 12. Storz, Gisela, Fredric S. Jacobson, Louis A. Tartaglia, Robin W. Morgan, Linda A. Silveira, and Bruce N. Ames. (1989) Genetic characterization and cloning of ahp, a locus encoding an alkyl hydroperoxide reductase induced by oxidative stress in Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology 171: 2049-2055. 13. Morgan, Robin W., John L. Cantello, and Caroline H. McDermott. (1990) Transfection of secondary chicken embryo fibroblasts with Marek's disease virus DNA. Avian Diseases 34: 345-351. 14. Morgan, Robin W., John L. Cantello, Johnny A. J. Claessens, and Paul J. A. Sondermeijer. (1991) Inhibition of Marek's disease virus DNA transfection by a sequence containing an alphaherpesvirus origin of replication and flanking transcriptional regulatory elements. Avian Diseases 35: 70-81. 15. Cantello, John L., Amy S. Anderson, Andrea Francesconi, and Robin W. Morgan. (1991) Isolation of a Marek's disease virus (MDV) recombinant containing the lacZ gene of Escherichia coli stably inserted within the MDV US2 gene. Journal of Virology 65: 1584-1588. 16. Anderson, Amy S., Andrea Francesconi, and Robin W. Morgan. (1992) Complete nucleotide sequence of the Marek's disease virus ICP4 gene. Virology 189: 657-667. 17. Morgan, Robin W., Jack Gelb, Jr., Crista S. Schreurs, D. Lutticken, John K. Rosenberger, and Paul J. A. Sondermeijer. (1992) Protection of chickens from Newcastle and Marek’s diseases with a recombinant herpesvirus of turkeys vaccine expressing the Newcastle disease virus fusion protein. Avian Diseases 36: 858-870. (Received the P. P. Levine award for the best paper published in Avian Diseases in 1992). 18. Schat, Karel A., William R. Pratt, Robin W. Morgan, Dan Weinstock, and Bruce W. Calnek. (1992) Stable transfection of reticuloendotheliosis virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines. Avian Diseases 36: 432-439. Updated August 20, 2013 Page 3 19. Pratt, William D., Robin W. Morgan, and Karel A. Schat. (1992) Characterization of reticuloendotheliosis virus-transformed avian T lymphoblastoid cell lines infected with Marek's disease virus. Journal of Virology 66: 7239-7244. 20. Pratt, William D., Robin W. Morgan, and Karel A. Schat. (1992) Cell-mediated cytolysis of lymphoblastoid cells expressing Marek's disease virus-specific phosphoproteins. Veterinary Microbiology 33: 93-99. 21. Morgan, Robin W., Jack Gelb, Jr., Conrad R. Pope, and Paul J. A. Sondermeijer. (1993) Efficacy of a herpesvirus of turkeys recombinant vaccine containing the fusion gene of Newcastle disease virus: onset of immunity and effect of maternal antibodies. Avian Diseases 37: 1032-1040. 22. Sondermeijer, Paul J. A., John A. J. Claessens, P. E. van Dijk, A. P. Adrian Mockett, Rinus A. J. Thijssen, Marja J. Willemse, and Robin W. Morgan. (1993) Avian herpesvirus as a live viral vector for the expression of heterologous antigens. Vaccine 11: 349-358. 23. Dohms, John E., L. L. Hnatow, P. Whetzel, Robin W. Morgan, and Calvin L. Keeler, Jr. (1993) Identification of the putative cytadhesin gene of Mycoplasma gallisepticum and its use as a diagnostic DNA probe. Avian Diseases 37: 380-388. 24. Cantello, John L., Amy Anderson, and Robin W. Morgan. (1994) Identification of latency-associated transcripts that map anti-sense to the ICP4 homologue gene of Marek’s disease virus. Journal of Virology 68: 6280-6290. 25. Parcells, Mark S., Amy S. Anderson, and Robin W. Morgan. (1994) Characterization of a Marek’s disease virus mutant containing a lacZ insertion in the US6 (gD) homologue gene. Virus Genes 9: 5-13. 26. Parcells, Mark, Amy S. Anderson, John L. Cantello, and Robin W. Morgan. (1994) Characterization of Marek’s disease virus insertion