Opening remarks and overall impact of Dr. Glen Broderick on research around the world

Abstract Text: Dr. Glen Broderick is an ADSA member since 1968. Glen has been an Ad hoc reviewer for JDS since 1975 and is currently a collaborator with the USDA-ARS and Emeritus Professor at UW-Madison. Glen received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from UW-Madison. Glen served as an Assistant and Associate professor of Animal Science at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1980. In 1981, he returned to Madison to work at the USDFRC and was appointed as Professor of Dairy Science at UW-Madison. His research focused on protein nutrition of the lactating cow with emphasis on enhancing utilization of feed nitrogen for milk production and reducing nitrogen excretion. This work involved developing strategies to minimize dietary CP without losing milk or protein yield, identifying factors influencing microbial protein synthesis in the rumen, and perfecting methodologies for quantifying ruminal protein degradation both in vivo and in vitro. Glen’s research has generated over135 peer-reviewed publications, of which over 100 in JDS and JAS alone. Glen’s major contributions to Dairy Science include: 1) understanding ruminal microbial metabolism utilizing isotope marker techniques, 2) improvements of in vitro methodologies for assessing ruminal microbial growth and ruminal protein degradation, 3) in vivo quantification of ruminal nitrogen metabolism, and 4) improving overall nitrogen utilization and reducing the environmental impact of milk production. According to the Web of Science, Glen’s research articles have been cited over 4,580 times, with an average of over 105 citations per year. According to the same source, Glen’s most cited article is: Broderick and Kang. 1980. J. Dairy Sci. 63: 64 – 75, which has been cited over 600 times. Moreover, in addition to teaching and mentoring of graduate students at UW-Madison and other universities around the world, he has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including JDS, JAS (1981 – 1993), and Animal Feed Science & Technology (1999 – 2013), among others. Glen presented a number of invited papers at meetings in over 25 different countries and mentored over 50 graduate students, postdocs, and visiting scientists. He did sabbaticals at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland (1985 – 1986) and the Swedish Agricultural University in Uppsala (1997 – 1998 and 2013). Glen was named a “highly-cited researcher” by the Web of Knowledge in 2005 and received the Nutrition Research Award of the American Feed Industry Association presented by the American Dairy Science Association (1997).

Keywords: dairy cow nutrition