Department of Animal Science

Emeritus Faculty

	A. E. Freeman Emeritus Professor of Animal Science Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture Iowa State University 239 Kildee Hall Ames, IA 50011-3150 Phone: 515-294-3352 Fax: 515-294-2041 Email: genef@iastate.edu
Education Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University: 1957 Master of Science, West Virginia University: 1954 Bachelor of Science, West Virginia University: 1952
Awards 2003 Iowa State Dairy Assoiation Ralph Keeling Award Recognized by Institute for Scientific Information as a "highly cited researcher" 2001 National Dairy Shrine Award 2000 ASAS Morrison Award 2000 American Dairy Society Association Freeman Symposium 1998 Fellow ADSA 1998 ADSA Distinguished Service Award 1996 Fellow AAAS S-1008 Project
Research Dr. Freeman's areas of research interest were dairy cattle breeding, including improving methods of sire and cow evaluation; breeding goals; efficiency of production; milk composition; mitochondrial function-molecular and phenotypic; genetic differences in immunocompetence; and adjusting for preferential treatment in dairy cattle evaluations.
Professional Affiliations American Society of Animal Science American Dairy Science Association Biometrics President of the 6th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Breeding American Society for the Advancement of Science
Selected Publications Freeman, A.E. 1996. What s new on the horizon in animal genetics. Proc. Prof. Dairy Mgt. Seminar. Coop. Extension Service, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA. Boettcher, P.J., D. Steverink, D.C. Beitz, A.E. Freeman, and B.T. McDaniel. 1996. Multiple herd evaluation of the effects of maternal lineage on yield traits of Holstein cattle. J. Dairy Sci. 79:655. Detilleux, J.C., M.E. Kehrli, Jr., J.R. Stabel, A.E. Freeman, and D. H. Kelley. 1995. Study of immunological dysfunction in periparturient Holstein cattle selected for high and average milk production. Vet. Immunology and Immunopathology. 44:251-267. Kuhn, M.T., and A.E. Freeman. 1995. Biases in predicted transmitting abilities of sires when daughters receive preferential treatment. J. Dairy Sci. 78:2067. Detilleux, J C., A.E. Freeman, M.E. Kehrli, Jr., A.B. Deitz, J.E. Butler, I. Kasckovics, L.K. Fox, and D.H. Kelley. 1995. Genetic association between parameters of innate immunity and resistance to infectious diseases in periparturient Holstein cattle. J. Dairy Sci. (Submitted).
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