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	Bernard Wentworth, Emeritus Professor                     Department of Animal Sciences; Graduate Trainer, Endocrinology and Reproducitve Physiology Program 560 Animal Science Bldg. 1675 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608.833.5451 Fax: 608.262.5157 email: bcwentwo@facstaff.wisc.edu

Education:
B.S.University of Maine, Orono, Poultry Science 1957
M.S. University of Mass., Amherst , Avian Physiology 1960
Ph.D University of Mass., Amherst, Avian Physiology 1963

Research Interests:

• Administration of an Avian Physiology Laboratory
• Avian Transgenic Technology and Reproductive Physiology \ Endocrinology
            

Courses Taught:

• Animal Science 200: Biology and Appreciation of Companion Animals: (I teach ½ of the course for 300 students a year).
• Animal Science 301: Animal Physiology (I teach 1/6 of the course for an average of 45 students a year)
  
• Animal Science 503: Avian Physiology; (I teach 1/3 of the course for an average of 22 students a year)
  
• Guest Lecturer in various courses on reproduction
  

Advising:

I advise an average of 14 undergraduate students each year.
Normally advise two An Sci. 199 or 699 each year.
Advise a Seniors Honors thesis occasionally. I advise a intern student for 399 credit occasionally and I help place numerous poultry interns.

Graduate Student Trainees
There have been 15 M.S. and 10 Ph.D. students that have received degrees under my supervision. I have also trained five postdoctoral students.

Publications:

Wentworth, A. L. and B. C. Wentworth 2000. The Avian Primordial Germ Cell ...An Enigma of Germline Evolution, Development and Immortality. Avian and Poultry Biology Reviews 11 (4) : 173-282.

Proudman, J. A., A. L. Wentworth and B. C. Wentworth 2001. The Quest for Transgenic Poultry. Birds are not Mice with Feathers. Book Chapter. Klumer Academic Press, Gembloux, Belgium.