Awards and Honors
2004 Gamma Sigma Delta Alumni Award of Merit
2004 Animal Growth and Development Award, ASAS
2003 Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award, Iowa State University
2003 Faculty Citation,
Iowa State University Alumni Association
Endocrinology Cover Story, March 2002
2002 Gamma Sigma Delta - Mission Award for Research
2002 Short Course at Voorhees College
2001 Outstanding Achievement in Research
1995 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1989-90 Honor Lecturer, Mid-America State Universities Association
1988 Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award, ASAS
1987 Fellow, American Society of Animal Science
Professional Affiliations
National Institutes of Health, Reproductive Biology Study Section (1984-88)
and Reviewers Reserve (1988-92)
American Association of Anatomists
Endocrine Society
American Physiological Society
Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
Society for the Study of Reproduction
British Society for the Study of Fertility
Society for Neuroscience
Iowa Physiological Society
Pituitary Society
American Society for Cell Biology
Cooperating Faculty Member, ISU Neuroscience Program
Cooperating Faculty Member, ISU Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program
Editorial Board, Domestic Animal Endocrinology (1992-96, 2003-06)
Editorial Board, Animal Reproduction Science (1978-2004)
Editorial Board, Endocrinology (1993-99)
ISU Department of Animal Science Animal Physiology section coordinator.
Research
Dr. Anderson's areas of research are mechanisms regulating relaxin and progesterone
secretion and their effects, effects of antiprogesterone, and neuroendocrine mechanisms
regulating growth and reproduction in farm animals.
Instruction
Dr. Anderson teaches:
AnS 332 - Laboratory Methods in Animal Reproduction
AnS 533 - Physiology and Endocrinology of Animal Reproduction
AnS 590F - Special Topics - Physiology of Reproduction
AnS 633 - Seminar in Animal Reproduction
AnS 699F - Research in Animal Reproduction
Publications
(from a total of 209 research papers)
Lee, J.S., M.S. Mayes, M.H. Stromer, C.G. Scanes, S. Jeftinija and L.L. Anderson. 2004.
Number of
secretory vesicles in growth hormone cells of the pituitary remains unchanged
after secretion. Experimental
Biology and Medicine 229:632-639.
Anderson, L.L. 2004. Invited minireview titled: Discovery of a new cellular structure:
The
Porosome, Elucidation of the molecular mechanism of secretion. Cell Biology International
28:3-5.
Anderson, L.L., S. Jeftinija and C.G. Scanes. 2004. Invited minireview titled: Growth
hormone
secretion: Molecular and cellular mechanisms and in vivo approaches.
Experimental Biology and
Medicine 229:291-302.
Glavaski-Joksimovic, A., K. Jeftinija, C.G. Scanes, L.L. Anderson and S. Jeftinija. 2003.
Stimulatory effect of ghrelin on isolated porcine somatotropes.
Neuroendocrinology 77:366-378.
Cho, S.-J., K. Jeftinija, A. Glavaski, S. Jeftinija, B.P. Jena, and L.L. Anderson. 2002.
Structure and dynamics of
the fusion pores in live GH-secreting cells revealed using
atomic force microscopy. Endocrinology 143:1144-1148
(cover illustration).
Anderson, L.L., D.L. Hard, A.H. Trenkle, and S.-J. Cho. 1999. Long-term growth after
hypophyseal stalk transection
and hypophysectomy of beef calves. Endocrinology
140:2405-2414.
Anderson, L.L., D.L. Hard, L.S. Carpenter, E.K. Awotwi, M.A. Diekman, A.H. Trenkle,
and S.-J. Cho. 1999. Pregnancy,
parturition, and lactation in hypophyseal stalk-transected
beef heifers. J. Endocrinol. 163: 463-475.
