Panel Members for the Meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP)

to consider and review

Scientific Issues Associated with Designating a Prion as a “Pest”
under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA),
and Related Efficacy Test Methods

March 31 – April 1, 2009

Docket number:  EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0859			OPP Docket Tel: 703-305-5805

FIFRA SAP Chair

Steven G. Heeringa, Ph.D.

Research Scientist & Director for Statistical Design

University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

Ann Arbor, Michigan  

Designated Federal Official

Myrta R. Christian, M.S.

US Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Science Coordination & Policy

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel

EPA East Building, MC 7201M

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC  20460

Tel:  202-564-8450, Fax:  202-564-8382, Christian.myrta@epa.gov

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Members

John R. Bucher, Ph.D., DABT

Associate Director

Environmental Toxicology Program

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina   

Kirby C. Donnelly, Ph.D.

Professor and Head

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health

School of Rural Public Health

Texas A&M University System Health Science Center

College Station, 

Carey N. Pope, Ph.D.

Professor, Head & Sitlington Chair of Toxicology

Department of Physiological Sciences

Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine

Stillwater, Oklahoma  

Kenneth M. Portier, Ph.D.

Program Director, Statistics

American Cancer Society

National Home Office

Atlanta, Georgia  

Daniel Schlenk, Ph.D.

Professor of Aquatic Ecotoxicology & Environmental Toxicology 

Department of Environmental Sciences 

University of California, Riverside 

Riverside, California  

FQPA Science Review Board Members

Jason C. Bartz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Creighton University School of Medicine

Omaha, Nebraska  

Byron Caughey, Ph.D.

Senior Investigator & Chief - TSE/Prion Biochemistry Section

Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases

NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories

Hamilton, Montana  

Kenneth D. Clinkenbeard, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Professor & Coordinator, 

  Veterinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program

Department of Veterinary Pathobiology

College of Veterinary Medicine

Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, Oklahoma  

Christina Egan, Ph.D.				

Director, Biodefense Laboratory

Wadsworth Center

New York State Department of Health

Albany, New York 

Kurt Giles, D. Phil.

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Department of Neurology

Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases

University of California at San Francisco

San Francisco, California  

Nancy J. Hanson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Medical Microbiology

Director of Molecular Biology

Center for Research in Anti-Infectives and Biotechnology

Creighton University School of Medicine

Omaha, Nebraska  

Corinne I. Lasmezas, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Infectology

The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida 

Jupiter, Florida  

Laura Manuelidis, M.D.

Professor & Head of Neuropathology

Department of Surgery

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut  

Suzette A. Priola, Ph.D.

Senior Investigator & Chief - TSE/Prion Molecular Biology Section

Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases

NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories

Hamilton, Montana  

Juergen A. Richt, DVM, Ph.D.

Regents Distinguished Professor

Kansas State University

College of Veterinary Medicine

Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology

Manhattan, Kansas  

Lynne Sehulster, Ph.D.

Health Scientist

Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, Georgia  

Claudio Soto, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Neurology

University of Texas Medical  School at Houston

Houston, Texas  

