BTI HISTORY
1983-84 1985-86 1987-88 1989-90 1991-92 1993-94
1995-96 1997-99 2000-01 2002-03 2004-05 2006-07
Garry Dunny, Robert Brooker, Paul August, Michael Flickinger and Kristi Iskierka celebrate an early milestone, continued funding for the BPTI in 1989.
INCREASED VISABILITY
After renovation of its lab space in Gortner was completed and with the publication of its first research annual report in 1988, the BPTI was ready to expand its influence and visibility. In 1989, it hosted the first Midwest Biotechnology Symposium, a joint effort with the University of Wisconsin and the University of Iowa that was the first of many other symposia that the institute was to host.
NEW FACULTY HIRES
Also in 1989, the BPTI hired Prof. Gary M. Dunny as a joint appointment in Microbiology and Dr. Jeffrey Tate as industrial liaison.
In 1990, Prof. David Sherman, who did his doctoral work in organic chemistry atColumbia University, was also hired as a joint appointment in Microbiology.
NIGMS GRANT
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) training grant in biotechnology originated in 1990 and has since been renewed at the level of 16 students per year. over a hundred students have been drawn from the departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Chemistry, Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Plant Biology, Veterinary Pathobiology, Medicinal Chemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, Chemical Engineering, and Computer Science.
