Mónica G. Balzarini

Mónica G. Balzarini is a professor of statistics in the Agricultural College at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She earned a B.Sc. in agriculture from the National University of Córdoba, an M.Sc. in biometry from the University of Buenos Aires, and a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Dr. Balzarini has trained many scientists in using SAS and has served as a statistical consultant to numerous agricultural researchers around the world. She is the author/editor of the first statistical soft ware developed in Argentina, as well as a pioneer investigator in statistical genomics in her country (CONICET investigator). Dr. Balzarini has been honored as president of the Argentinean Region of the International Biometric Society.

Aldo Cappio-Borlino

Aldo Cappio-Borlino earned a laurea degree in physics from the University of Turin, Italy. An associate professor of animal breeding and genetics at the University of Sassari, Italy, he has used SAS since 1996. Cappio-Borlino's scientific interests involve the mathematical modeling of biological phenomena of interest in animal science, such as lactation curves, growth curves, and feed utilization.

Wendy Czika

Wendy Czika is a research statistician at SAS Institute and the principal developer of SAS/Genetics procedures. She has been using SAS software since beginning graduate school in 1996 at North Carolina State University, where she recently received a Ph.D. in statistics under the direction of Dr. Bruce Weir. The focus of Dr. Czika's research has been statistical methods for analyzing genetic marker data.

James D. Fry

James D. Fry, assistant professor of biology at the University of Rochester, received a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Michigan in 1988 and started using SAS software shortly thereafter. He uses computer models to study the genetics of complex tra its in mites, morning glories, and Drosophila flies.

Greg Gibson

Greg Gibson is an associate professor of genetics at North Carolina State University. He has been working with Dr. Russell Wolfinger since 1990 on applications for mixed model analysis of microarray data, and has consulted on the development of SAS/Genetics procedures in quantitative genetics. Dr. Gibson has a B.Sc. from Sydney University in genetics, a Ph.D. in developmental genetics from the University of Basel, and post-doctoral training in population and quantitative genetics from Stanford University.

Jose L. L. Guerra

Jose L. L. Guerra earned a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University with a Ph.D. minor in applied statistics. During the last five years he has served as a consultant in applied statistics in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Federal University of Ceara in Brazil. He learned applied statistics with SAS and has used the software since 1997. Dr. Guerra is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Animal Science at the Federal University of Fortaleza and has a research position at the Brazilian National Center of Research (CNPq), where he develops computer programs for animal breeding and production.

Manjit S. Kang

Manjit S. Kang is a professor of quantitative genetics in the Department of Agronomy at Louisiana State University. He earned a B.Sc. in agriculture and animal husbandry from the Punjab Agricultural University in India, an M.S. in biological sciences from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, an M.A. in botany from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and a Ph.D. in crop science from the University of Missouri at Columbia. The author/editor and publisher of numerous volumes in genetics and plant breeding, Dr. Kang began using SAS in 1974. He published his first SAS program on stability analyses, written in the SAS Matrix Programming Language, in the Journal of Heredity in 1985.

Nicolò P. P. Macciotta

Nicolò P. P. Macciotta earned a laurea degree in agricultural science from the University of Sassari, Italy. He is a researcher of animal breeding and genetics at the University of Sassari, where his main areas of interest are the mathematical modeling of lactation curves, dairy sheep, and cattle and goat breeding. Macciotta began using SAS software in 1996.

Giuseppe Pulina, Ph.D,

Giuseppe Pulina, Ph.D., graduated in agricultural science from the University of Sassari, Italy. He is a professor of animal science as well as head of the Department of Animal Science at the University of Sassari. A SAS user since 1996, Dr. Pulina is particularly interested in the mathematical modeling of milk production.

Guilherme J. M. Rosa

Guilherme J. M. Rosa is an assistant professor of statistical genetics in the Department of Animal Science and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. He has used SAS since 1995. Rosa earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of São Paulo in 1998. He was a post-doctoral fellow in statistical genetics at the University of Wisconsin. In his 10 years at the São Paulo State University, Dr. Rosa was a lecturer and later an assistant professor of biostatistics and experimental design.

Arnold M. Saxton

Arnold M. Saxton earned an M.S. in fish genetics at the University of Washington at Seattle before continuing Ph.D. studies in animal breeding at North Carolina State University. At NCSU in 1980 he ran his first SAS program, and he has actively used SAS ever since for statistical and genetic analyses. After serving on the faculty of the Experimental Statistics Department at Louisiana State University for several years, Dr. Saxton moved to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is now a professor of animal science. A long-term goal is to develop realistic models of complex traits, with direct benefits to agriculture and human medicine.

Kenneth J. Stalder

Kenneth J. Stalder is an assistant professor in the Animal Science Department at Iowa State University. He has used SAS software since 1990. Dr. Stalder holds a Ph.D. in animal breeding and genetics from Iowa State University. He and the students he works with routinely use SAS in the analysis of complex data sets related to genetics and animal production.

Robert J. Tempelman

Robert J. Tempelman is an associate professor in the Department of Animal Science and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University. He was formerly an assistant professor in the Department of Experimental Statistics at Louisiana State University. He earned a master's degree in animal breeding from the University of Guelph, Canada, and a Ph.D. in quantitative genetics from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Tempelman has published numerous papers on mixed model and Bayesian inference, with emphases on quantitative genetics applications in animal science. He began using SAS software in 1985 as an undergraduate majoring in animal science at the University of Guelph.

Russ Wolfinger

Russ Wolfinger is Director of Genomics at SAS Institute. He earned a Ph.D. in statistics from North Carolina State University in 1989 and has been at SAS ever since, developing procedures (MIXED, MULTTEST, KDE, and NLMIXED) and conducting research. Current ly he is leading the development of solutions that integrate high-end statistics, warehousing, and visualization in the areas of genetics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.

Chenwu Xu

Chenwu Xu is a post-doctoral research associate in statistical genetics at the University of California at Riverside. He received a Ph.D. in genetics in 1998 from Nanjing Agricultural University, China, and has been using SAS for more than 10 years.

Shizhong Xu

Shizhong Xu is a professor of genetics in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences as well as an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of California at Riverside, where he teaches quantitative genetics and statistical genomics. He received a Ph.D. in quantitative genetics from Purdue University in 1989. Dr. Xu's current research work is focused on the development of statistical methods for QTL mapping and microarray gene expression data analysis. He began using SAS in 1987.

Xiang Yu

Xiang Yu has a bachelor's degree in bioscience from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. in bioinformatics from North Carolina State University. He is currently a biometrician at Merck Research Laboratory. Dr. Yu's primary work interest is pharmacogenomics, or the identification of genetic components that affect drug efficacy and efficiency in clinical trial studies. He has used SAS since 2000.