Ino Èurik
 

Personal information

Ino Èurik, PhD.
Professor (2010)
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
Animal Science Department
Sveto¹imunska 25, 10000 Zagreb
Hall II, Ground floor
+385 /1/239 4010
+385 /1/239 3947
e-mail: icurik@agr.hr

Teaching

Undergraduate program
Basics of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Graduate program
Quantitative Genetics
Conservation Genetics

Research interests

Inheritance of greying, melanoma and vitiligo in horse
Estimation of inbreeding depression
Strategies for elimination of detrimental genes from small and selected populations
Genetic analysis of complex health traits
Estimation of genetic biodiversity

Current projects

2005 - 2006
"Heterogeneity of inbreeding depression for growth and fertility traits in domestic animals"
Ministry of Science, Sport and Education of Croatia and Hungarian National office for research and technology
Ino Èurik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

Academic qualifications

2000
Ph.D.
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
Inbreeding in empirical and theoretical populations
1995
M.Sc.
Faculty for Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb
Numerical analysis of genetic structure of Croatian Simmental cattle from the aspect of milk protein polymorphism.
1991
B.Sc.
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
Morphometric characteristics of Carnica bee (Apis mellifera P.)

Training and research experience

February 2004 - May 2004
BOKU, Vienna, Austria [http://www.boku.ac.at/nuwi/]
Johann Sölkner
February 2000 - July 2000
BOKU, Vienna, Austria [http://www.boku.ac.at/nuwi/]
Johann Sölkner
September 1999 - December 1999
BOKU, Vienna, Austria [http://www.boku.ac.at/nuwi/]
Johann Sölkner

Employment and work experience

1991 - now
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

Past projects

1996 - 2001
"Impact of inbreeding depression on quantitative traits"
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
Ino Èurik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
1996 - 2001
"Variance components in the estimation of genetic parameters"
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
Nikola Stipiæ, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
1991 - 1995
"The effects of milk genotype on milk; yield, fat, protein, casein"
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
Jasmina Lukaè-Havranek, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

Other professional activities

1996 - 1998
Editorial Board Membership
ACS, Zagreb
scientific editor
2002 -
Biometric Society of Croatia
tresurer

Scientific publications

Achmann R. Curik I, Dovc P, Kavar T, Bodo I, Habe F, Marti E, Sölkner J, Brem G, (2004). Microsatellite diversity, population subdivision and gene flow in the Lipizzan horse. Anim. Genet. 35: 285-292

Curik I, Fraser DG, Eder C, Achmann R, Swinburne JE, Binns M, Brem G, Sölkner J and Marti E. (2003). Association between the MHC gene region and variation of serum IgE levels against specific mould allergens in the horse. Genet. Sel. Evol. 35(Suppl 1): S177-S190, 2003.

Curik I, Zechner P, Sölkner J, Achmann R, Bodo I, Dovè P, Kavar T, Marti E, Brem G, (2003). Inbreeding, microsatellite heterozygosity and morphological traits in Lipizzan horses. J. Hered. 94: 125-132.

Seltenhammer MH, Simhofer H, Scherzer S, Zechner P, Curik I, Solkner J, Brandt SM, Jansen B, Pehamberger H, Eisenmenger E, 2003: Equine melanoma in a population of 296 grey Lipizzan horses. Equine Vet. J. 35: 153-157.

Feligini M, Cubric-Curik V, Parma P, Curik I, Greppi GF, Enne G, 2002: Polymorphism of kappa-casein in Italian goat breeds: A new ACRS-PCR designed DNA test for discrimination of A and B Alleles. Food Technol. Biotech., 40: 293-298.

Curik I, Seltenhammer M and Sölkner J, Quantitative genetic analysis of melanoma and grey level in Lipizzan horses. "Seventh World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production", Le Corum, Monpellier - France, August 19-23, 2002.

Curik I, Sölkner J and Stipic N, (2002). Effects of models with finite loci, selection, dominance, epistasis and linkage on inbreeding coefficients based on pedigree and genotypic information. J. Anim. Breed. and Genet., 119: 101-115.

Eder C, Curik I, Brem G, Cramer R, Bodo I, Habe F, Lazary S, Solkner J, Marti E, (2001). Influence of environmental and genetic factors on allergen-specific immunoglobulin E levels in sera from Lipizzan horses. Equine Vet. J. 33: 714-720, 2001

Curik I, Sölkner J and Stipic N, (2001). The influence of selection and epistasis on inbreeding depression estimates. J. Anim. Breed. and Genet., 118: 247-262, 2001.

Filipèiæ L, Èurik I and Sölkner J, Genetic variability and structure analysis of the Croatian Simmental breed based on pedigree information. Proceedings of 19th International Conference on ITI "Information Technology Interfaces", June 17-20, p. 169-174, 1997. Pula, Croatia.

Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)

http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=201152

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