Max Rothschild Email: mfrothsc@iastate.edu C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Life Sciences,Iowa State University Max Rothschild has devoted his research and teaching career to the field of animal breeding and molecular genetics. His primary work has been associated with growth and performance in livestock and the genetics of disease resistance. Recent research has been directed towards identifying genes controlling traits of economic importance in the pig, cattle and other domesticated species. He and his lab have discovered a large number of individual genes associated with traits of importance and many of these are used in selection in the commercial pig industry worldwide to improve pig performance. He is widely recognized as a world leader in the field of pig genetics. He is a member of many national and international societies. Rothschild also has been active developing livestock projects in developing countries including many parts of Asia and has been associated with the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods. He has worked for 5 years in Uganda with VEDCO, a NGO, working with families to improve livestock production. He has also been involved in animal breeding research, partnering with ILRI and has also worked in South Africa in ways to apply animal genetics to animal improvement. Curriculum Vitae
Name: Dr. Max Rothschild Country of birth: United States Nationality: Position Title: C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Life Sciences Institution: Iowa State University Contact Address: Department of Animal Science 2255 Kildee Hall Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 Email: mfrothsc@iastate.edu Tel: +515 294 6202 Specialty Area: - Animal Breeding and Molecular Genetics
Education:
1974 B.S. University of California, Davis. Animal Science, background in Genetics.
1975 M.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Animal Science
1978 Ph.D. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Animal Breeding, minors in Genetics, Statistics.
Positions held (since terminal degree):
1978-1980 Assistant Professor, Department of Dairy Science, University of Maryland
1980-1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University
1983-1987 Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University
1987-Present Professor, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University
1990-1994 Assistant Director, Agriculture Experiment Station
1993-Present USDA-CSRS National Swine Genome Coordinator
1997-2001 Section Leader, Animal Breeding and Genetics, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University
1999-Present C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture
2001-2002 Visiting Scientist, Sygen International, Berkeley, California
2002-2005 Co-Director, Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University
2005-Present Director, Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University
2007-Present M.E. Ensminger Endowed Chair in International Animal Agriculture
Expertise:
- Livestock and the Genetics of Disease Resistance - Molecular breeding
Honors and Awards (since terminal degree):
1985 Iowa State University Livestock Service Award . 1990 Young Researcher Award . 1991 Lilly Young Animal Science Research Award . 1995 Animal Breeding and Genetics Award . 1997 Honor Team Award . 1998 Fellow . 1999 R and D 100 Award for LS1 (ESR) gene discovery . 1999 C. F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture . 2002 A.B. Chapman Lecturer . 2002 R and D 100 Award for PT1 (MC4R) gene discovery . 2002 Iowa Inventor of the Year . 2003 Excellence in International Agriculture Award . 2003 Research Award of Merit . 2003 ISU Research Foundation Award . 2005 Guest Professor . 2005 Distinguished Service Award . 2006 Faculty Award for Diversity Enhancement . 2007 International Service Award . 2007 Order of the Knoll Faculty Award . 2007 Fellow Award . 2007 M.E. Ensminger Endowed Chair in Animal Agriculture . 2008 International Animal Agriculture Award . 2009 Distinguished Service Award .
A selection of major research accomplishments: Discoveries and first reports
1) PT1 (MC4R) gene discovery, 2002 2) LS1 (ESR) gene discovery, 1999
A Selection of refereed journal publications (2002-present)
Alexander, L.S., A. Qu, S.A. Cutler, A. Mahajan, M.F. Rothschild, W. Cai, J.C. Dekkers, and C.H. Stahl. 2008. A CALCR single nucleotide polymorphism is associated with growth performance and bone integrity in response to dietary phosphorus deficiency. J of Anim Sci (submitted).
Du, Z.-Q., X. Zhao, N. Vukasinovic, F. Rodriguez, A.C. Clutter, and M. F. Rothschild.2009. Association and haplotype analyses of positional candidate genes in five genomicregions linked to scrotal hernia in commercial pig lines. PLoS one (submitted).
Eisenmann, J.C., M. A. Sarzynski, K. Glenn, M.F. Rothschild, and K. A. Heelan. 2009.ACE I/D Genotype, Adiposity, and Blood Pressure in Children. CardiovascularDiabetology. (submitted).
Ramos, A.M., Zhi-Liang Hu, S. J. Humphray, J. Rogers, J. Reecy and M. F. Rothschild.2008. Combining fine mapping and genome sequencing for the molecular dissection of pigSSC17 meat quality QTL. Genetics (submitted)
Renaville, B., K. L. Glenn, B. E. Mote, B. Fan, K. Stalder and M. F. Rothschild. 2009. SREBP pathway genes as candidate gene markers in country ham production Italian JAnim. Sci. (submitted)
Feng, Z., M.-J. Zhu, Zhi-Qiang Du3 Bin Fan, H. Shen, M.. F. Rothschild, K. Li, and S.-H.Zhao. 2009. BTG1 as a new candidate gene for muscle growth in pigs: Cloning,expression and association analysis. Animal Genetics (submitted)
Book chapters:
Invited presentations at major international conferences (2002-present-Maximum 8)
Thomsen, H., J.C.M. Dekkers, H.K. Lee and M. F. Rothschild. 2002. Characterisation ofquantitative trait loci for growth and meat quality in a breed cross in swine. 7th WorldCongress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Montpellier, France, Aug. 19-23,Communication Number 15-05 Grapes, L., R. Fernando, and M. F. Rothschild. 2002. Analysis of methods for finemapping quantitative loci using linkage disequilibrium. 7th World Congress on GeneticsApplied to Livestock Production, Montpellier, France, Aug. 19-23, CommunicationNumber 21-19 Chaiwong, N., J. C. M. Dekkers, R. L. Fernando and M. F. Rothschild. 2002.Introgressing multiple QTL in backcross breeding programs of limited size. 7th WorldCongress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Montpellier, France, August 19-23, Communication Number 22-08. Ramos, A.M., Z. L. Hu, S. Humphray, J. Rogers, J. Reecy and M. F. Rothschild. 2006.Using large scale porcine genome sequence information to find the underlying mutationsassociated with chromosome 17 QTL for meat quality. 8th World Congress on GeneticsApplied to Livestock Production. Yu M. and M. F. Rothschild, Initial evidence for the slc44a3 gene being associated withmeat color QTL on chromosome 4 in the pig, Proceedings of the 8th World Congress onGenetics Applied to Livestock Production, .August 13-18, 2006 Guimaraes, S. E., M. F. Rothschild, E. Huff-Lonergan, A. Sosnicki, S. Jungst, M. Yu andS. Lonergan. 2006. Association analyses of MC4R and PRKAG3 genes in a commercialpig population with different genetic potential for growth. 8th World Congress onGenetics Applied to Livestock Production. Rothschild, M.F. 2008. Swine genome sequencing, gene discovery and genomicselection: What will the future bring? Proceedings of the 14th Conference on AnimalGenetics and Breeding in China Onteru, S.K., B. Fan, B. Mote, T. Serenius, M. Nikkilae, K. J. Stalder , M.F. Rothschild.SNP discovery in genes affecting leg health traits in pigs. 2007. Proc. InternationalSymposium on Animal genomics for Animal Health, Paris, France, Oct. 23-25. Research Grants (2004 – present):
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