Professional Service

  • Head, National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison – 1988–2020
  • Head, Biological Magnetic Resonance data Bank – 1988–2020
  • International Council on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems
    Treasurer 1992-1994
    Secretary 1994-1996
    Chairman 1996-1998

Editorial Boards

  • Nature, Scientific Data – 2013−Present
  • Current Metabolomics – 2012−Present
  • Biomolecular NMR Assignments – 2007−Present
  • Biopolymers – 2006-Present
  • Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics – 2001-Present
  • European Journal of Biochemistry / FEBS Journal, Assoc. Editor – 1999-2009
  • Macromolecular Structures – 1996-1998
  • Journal of Magnetic Resonance – 1993-Present
  • Biophysical Journal – 1991-1997
  • Journal of Biomolecular NMR – 1990-Present
  • Turkish Journal of Chemistry – 1990-Present
  • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics – 1988-2001
  • Bulletin of Magnetic Resonance – 1983-1988

National and International Advisory Positions

  • Member, External Advisory Committee, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Metabolomics Resource Core (MCMRC) – 2014-Present
  • Convener, wwPDB Task Force on Validation of NMR Structures – 2009−2010
  • Member, Advisory Committee, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Biomolecular NMR Core, San Antonio, TX – 2009
  • Member, International Science Council of the European NMR Research Infrastructures in Ljubljana, Debrecen, Brno, Warsaw, Oxford, Utrecht, Florence and Frankfurt – 2009
  • External Advisory Board for the HWB-NMR Facility, University of Birmingham, UK – 2008−Present
  • International Advisory Board for eNMR (Project funded by the European Community) – 2008
  • Member, Scientific Working Group for the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease – 2008-Present
  • External Advisory Committee for the Nebraska Center for Rapid Bioanalysis (COBRE) – 2007−2008
  • Scientific Advisory Board, Protein Information Management System (PIMS) – 2005-2008
  • Scientific Advisory Board, Genome Canada project on Building the Metabolomics Toolbox: Enabling Rapid Disease Diagnosis Through Metabolic Profiling – 2005
  • External Advisory Committee, Resource for Solid State NMR of Proteins, University of California-San Diego – 2003-2006
  • IUPAB Task Force on “NMR in Biological Systems” – 2001
  • External Reviewer, NMR Laboratory, Mayo Research Institute – 1998
  • Technical Advisory Board, Protein Data Bank, Brookhaven National Laboratory – 1997-1999
  • Advisory Committee, Stable Isotopes Resource, Los Alamos National Laboratory – 1996-2000
  • External Reviewer, Department of Biochemistry, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 1996
  • Advisory Committee, UCSF Special Resource for Biomolecular Graphics – 1995-1999
  • Advisory Board, Protein Data Bank, Brookhaven National Laboratory – 1993-1996
  • External Reviewer, Department of Biochemistry, Ohio State University – 1991, 1995
  • Advisory Committee, Structural Biology Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei – 1991-1996
  • IUPAC/IUB IUBMB/CODATA Task Group on Standardization of Data Bases on Protein Structures Determined by NMR – 1991-1998
  • Chairman, Division of Biology and Medicine, International Society of Magnetic Resonance – 1990-1993
  • CODATA Task Group on Biological Macromolecules – 1990-1998
  • Advisory Committee, High Field NMR Facility, National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 1987-1993
  • Carleton College Comprehensive Examinations Group – 1985
  • External Reviewer, Biochemistry Core Curriculum, Grinnell College – 1982
  • Advisory Committee, NMR Facility for Biomedical Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 1976-1992

Government Service and Foundation Consulting

  • Member and chair of numerous NIH and NSF site visits
  • Mail reviewer of grant proposals submitted to: NIH, NSF, USDA, MRC-Canada, Petroleum Research Foundation, Research Corporation, United States-Israel Binational Foundation, Wellcome Trust, among others.
  • Member, NIH Physical Biochemistry Study Section – 1997-2001
  • Member, NIH Biomedical Research Technology Review Committee – 1994−1995
  • Member, Steering Committee, Research Resource Directors – 1983
  • Member, NIH Biophysical Chemistry (BBCB) Study Section – 1978−1982
  • Consultant, NIH-Sponsored Workshop on High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy – March 1977
  • Ad Hoc Member, NIH BBCB Study Section – 1976
  • Ad Hoc Member, Special NIH BBCA and BBCB Study Sections – 1976

Meetings Organized

  • 39th Steenbock Symposium on Iron-Sulfur Proteins—Biogenesis, Regulation and Function, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (with Patricia Kiley) – 2018
  • Inaugural ISGO/PSI Workshop on NMR in Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (with Gaetano Montelione) – 2002
  • Symposium on Advanced NMR Techniques and Biomolecular Structure at the 1995 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, (with Mitsu Ikura and Masatsune Kainosho) – 1995
  • Session on NMR of Biomolecules, Eastern Analytical Symposium, Somerville, New Jersey – 1995
  • 23rd Steenbock Symposium on High Pressure Effects in Molecular Biophysics and Enzymology, Madison, Wisconsin (with Catherine A. Royer and Dexter B. Northrop) – 1994
  • Stable Isotope Applications in Biomolecular Structure and Mechanisms, Santa Fe, New Mexico (program committee) – 1994
  • International Biological NMR Symposium, Stanford, University (with Stanley J. Opella) – 1994
  • The Use of Stable Isotopes in NMR Studies of Protein Structure, Dynamics and Function, Palais Luxembourg, Paris, France (program committee) – 1994
  • Conference on Frontiers of NMR in Molecular Biology II, Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology, Keystone, Colorado (with Peter Wright and Masatsune Kainosho) – 1990
  • Molecular Approaches to the Elucidation of Biological Functions by Stable Isotope Aided NMR Spectroscopy, Oiso, Japan (with Masatsune Kainosho) – 1989
  • Nuclease Meeting, Biochemistry Department, University of Wisconsin Madison (with Micheal H. Zehfus) – 1988
  • International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Madison, Wisconsin (with Chien Ho and James S. Hyde) – 1988
  • Protein Society, Inaugural Meeting, San Diego, California (program committee) – 1988
  • UCLA Workshop on the Frontiers of NMR in Biotechnology, Lake Tahoe, (with Dale Oxender and C. Fred Fox) – 1988
  • Gordon Conference on the Physics and Physical Chemistry of Biopolymers (with Wilma Olson) – 1984
  • ​Eighth Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) (national advisory committee) – 1983
  • Biochemical NMR Spectroscopy: a Dedication and Symposium, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana – 1978