He is an editor for Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, the definitive source on microbial taxonomy, and regularly serves on grant review panels for national and international funding agencies. (unlv.edu)
He has also served on grant review panels for Florida State University, the Community Foundation of Middle TN and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. (njpsa.org)
In my opinion, it's better to fund one novel, exciting paper than 10 pedestrian «dotting i's and crossing t's» papers, but such high - risk research seems to go against the prevailing attitude of grant review panels. (sciencemag.org)