Margaret Eleanor Meyer

Background

Meyer, Margaret Eleanor was born on February 8, 1923 in Westwood, California, United States. Daughter of Herman Henry and Eleanor (Dobson) Meyer.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, 1961.

Career

Public health analyst, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Maryland., 1945-1946; swine Brucellosis control agent, Department Agriculture, Davis, 1946-1947; bacteriologist, University of California, Davis, 1947-1961; research microbiologist, University of California (School Veterinary Medicine), 1961-1977; professor veterinary public health and microbiologist experimental station, University of California (School Veterinary Medicine), since 1977; research microbiologist, University of California Medical School, Los Angeles, 1961-1977; supervisor Brucella identifications laboratory World Health Organization,, University of California-Davis, since 1964; professor veterinary public health, University of California-Davis, since 1973; also director Master of Arts program in preventive veterinary medicine. Consultant subcommittee on Brucella International Committee Bacterial Taxonomy, since 1962, member, since 1966. Member 5th Pan American Congress Veterinary Medicine, Venezuela,1966.

Member International Congress Microbiology, Moscow, 1966, Mexico City, 1970, Munich, Germany, 1978, member, officer, England, 1986. Member International Conference Culture Collections, Tokyo, 1968. Member of advisory commission to Bergey's Manual Determative Bacteriology, 1967.

Consultant in resident Pan American Health Organisation, Zoonoses Laboratory, Buenos Aires, 1968. Member brucellosis technical advising committee United States Animal Health Association, 1977. Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) consultant on brucellosis control in dairy animals, Tripoli, Libya, 1981, member 3d international brucellosis symposium, Algiers, 1983.

Consultant Alaska Department Fish and Game, 1976, Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations), Libya, 1981, Bering Straits Reindeer Herders Association, Nome, Alaska, 1981. Invited speaker International Symposium on Advances in Brucellosis Research, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., 1989, International Bison Conference. Resident consultant on brucellosis control in sheep and goats American Near East Refugee Aid, East Jerusalem, 1989.

Consultant on brucellosis in Yellowstone National Pk., National Pk. Svc., since 1991; invited member of national symposium on brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1994. Consultant on brucellosis control in livestock for Armenia, since 1994.

Achievements

• Margaret Eleanor Meyer has been listed as a noteworthy microbiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors Carmichael Park and Recreation District, California, 1975. Member Sacramento County Grand Jury, 1999-2000. Fellow American Public Health Association, American Academy Microbiology.

Member Society of America Microbiologists, North America Conference Animal Disease Research Workers, American College Veterinary Microbiologists (honorary affiliate), United States Animal Health Association (chairman brucellosis technical advisory committee 1978-1979), International Association Microbiol. Societies (member 1st intersect. congress 1974), American Association of University Women, Northern California Women's Golf Association, University California Alumni Association, Sigma Xi. Clubs: University California Faculty (Davis).

El Dorado Royal Country (Shingle Springs, California). Reno Women's Golf.

Connections

Father:

Herman Henry Meyer

Mother:

Eleanor (Dobson) Meyer