EDUCATION:

• B.S., Biology, Centenary College, 1960
• M.S., Animal Science, Louisiana State University, 1963
• Ph.D., Animal Science (Reproductive Biology), North Carolina State University, 1969

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science, University of Florida
• Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science, University of Florida
• Professor, Animal Science Department, University of Florida
• Graduate Research Professor, Animal Science Department, University of Florida
• Dual Appointment as Graduate Research Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida

HONORS (last 10 years):

• Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Editor-in-Chief and Consulting Editor of Biology of Reproduction
• Society for the Study of Reproduction Research Award
• Biotechnology 94 Award
• American Society of Animal Science L.E. Casida Award for Graduate Education
• Gamma Sigma Delta International Distinguished Achievement Award in Agriculture
• Invited Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Reproduction
• Invited Editor and Contributor, Endocrinology of Pregnancy for Contemporary Endocrinology Series
• Member Editorial Board of Endocrine
• Member Editorial Board of Journal of Reproductive Immunology
• Member International Advisory Panel for Journal of Reproduction, Fertility and Development
• Member Editorial Board of Oxford Reviews in Reproductive Biology
• Member National Advisory Committee for University of Kansas Mental Retardation Research Center
• Member Executive Committee, Center for Diabetes, University of Florida
• Member Medical Advisory Committee for Stop! Childrens Cancer, Gainesville, FL
• Member National Food Animal Integrated Research '95 Program Committee
• President-Elect, President and Past-President, Society for the Study of Reproduction

FUNDED RESEARCH (last 3 years):

• Antiluteolytic Biological Activity of Ovine Interferon Tau (USDA Grant $193,000)
• Ovine Iterferon Tau Regulates Uterine Hormone Receptor (National Institute of Health Grant $461,101)
• Role of placental lactogen in sheep (USDA BARD Grant OEP $350,000)
• Immunological Basis for Interferon Toxicity in Sheep: Effects of Cytokine Expression on Epithelial Cells In Vivo (USDA Animal Health Grant $50,000)
• Interferon tau-induced uterine proteins affect peri-implantation conceptuses (USDA Grant, $230,000)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• Sigma Xi
• Gamma Sigma Delta
• Alpha Zeta
• Phi Kappa Phi
• American Society of Animal Science
• Society for Study of Reproduction
• Society for the Study of Fertility
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Endocrine Society

SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

• Spencer TE, Ott TL, Bazer FW. 1998. Expression of interferon regulatory factors one and two in the ovine endometrium: Effects of pregnancy and ovine interferon tau. Biol Reprod 58:1154-1162.
• Piedrahita JA, Moore K, Oetama B, Lee C-K, Scales N, Ramsoondar J, Bazer F, and Ott T. 1998. Generation of transgenic porcine chimeras using primordial germ cell (PGC)-derived colonies. Biol. Reprod. 58:1321-1329.
• Laurenz, JC, Hadjisavas M, Chovanic GW, Bazer FW. 1997. Myelosuppression in the pig (Sus scrofa): Uteroferrin reduces the myelosuppressive effects of 5-flourouracil in young pigs. Comp Biochem Physiol 116A:369-377.
• Pontzer CH, Yamamoto JK, Bazer FW, Ott TL, Johnson HM. 1997. Potent anti-feline immunodeficiency virus and anti-human immunodeficiency virus effect of IFN-Immunol 158:4351-435
• Bazer FW, Spencer TE, Ott TL. 1997. Interferon tau: A novel pregnancy recognition signal. Am J Reprod Immunol. 37:412-420.
• Spencer TE, Bazer FW. 1996. Ovine interferon tau suppresses transcription of the estrogen receptor and oxytocin receptor genes in the ovine endometrium.Endocrinology 137:1144-1147.

Fuller W. Bazer, Ph.D.
Professor and O.D. Butler Chair in Animal Science
Director, Center for Animal Biotechnology
Director, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas Medical Center
Telephone: 713-677-7777 (Houston)
Telephone: 409-862-2659 (College Station)
Email: fbazer@cvm.tamu.edu