Ino Čurik

 

Personal information

Ino Čurik, PhD.
Professor (2010)
Animal Science Department
Hall II, Ground floor
tel: +385 01 239 4010
e-mail: icurik (add @agr.hr)

Teaching

Undergraduate study programme (BSc)

Basics of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Graduate study programme (MSc)

Quantitative Genetics
Conservation Genetics

Research interests

Estimation of inbreeding and inbreeding depression
Estimation and utilisation of non-additive genetic effecs
Estimation of genetic biodiversity from pedigree and molecular markers in domestic and wild animals
Strategies for elimination of detrimental genes from small and selected populations
Genetic analysis of complex health traits in out-bred populations

Current projects

2012 - 2013, "Analysis of genetic diversity in cattle populations using dense sets of molecular markers", Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Republic of Croatia and OEAD, Austria, Ino Curik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

2012 - 2013, "Estimation of effective population size and inbreeding from high-throughput genomic information", Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Republic of Croatia and ARRS (Slovenia)., Ino Curik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

2011 - 2015, "A collaborative European Network on Rabbit Genome Biology - RGB-Net", EU framework programe COST-TD-1101; http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/rabbit/, Ino Curik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

2011 - 2014, "Advances in Farm Animal Genomic Resource's ("GENOMIC-RESOURCES", ESF (European Science Foundation) networking program; http://genomic-resources.epfl.ch/, Ino Curik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

2006 - 2012, "Strategies for elimination of genetic defects in selected populations", Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Republic of Croatia (#178-1780460-0546), Ino Curik, 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, Johann Sölkner

February 2000 - July 2000, BOKU, Vienna, Austria, Johann Sölkner

September 1999 - December 1999, BOKU, Vienna, Austria, Johann Sölkner

Employment and work experience

1991 - now

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

Past projects

2009 - 2011, "Estimation of dominance components using fraternity coefficients in domesticated rabbits", Hungarian-Croatian Intergovernmental Scientific & Technological Cooperation Programme, Ino Curik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

2006 - 2009, "Dairy products in mediterranean sheep population: quantification of scrapie risk" , EU FP6 project (FP6-2005-SME-COLL acronym RiskScra, Ino Curik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

2005 - 2006, "Estimation of inbreeding depression for fertility and growth in domestic animals", Hungarian-Croatian Intergovernmental Scientific & Technological Cooperation Programme, Ino Curik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

1996 - 2001, "Impact of inbreeding depression on quantitative traits", Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia (#178007), Ino Curik, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

Other professional activities

2010- , Editorial Board Membership, Livestock Science, Elsavier

2012-, Editorial Board Membership, Animal Genetic Resources (FAO), Cambridge University Press

2002 -, Biometric Society of Croatia, Croatian Genetic Society

Scientific publications

Frkonja, A, Gredler, B, Schnyder, U, Curik, I, Sölkner, J. (2012) Prediction of breed composition in admixed cattle populations, Anim. Genet. Article first published online: 23 MAR 2012, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2012.02345.x

Siwek, M, Finocchiaro, R, Curik, I, Portolano, B. (2011). Hierarchical structure of the Sicilian goats revealed by Bayesian analyses of microsatellite information. Anim. Genet. 42 ; 93-95.

Kaps, M; Curik, I; Baban, M. (2010) Modeling variance structure of body shape traits of Lipizzan horses. J. Anim. Sci. 88: 2868-2882.

Nagy, I; Curik, I; Radnai, I; Cervantes, I; Gyovai, P; Baumung, R; Farkas, J; Szendrő, Zs. (2010). Genetic diversity and population structure of the synthetic Pannon White rabbit revealed by pedigree analyses. J. Anim. Sci. 88: 1267-1275.

Curik, I; Ferencakovic, M; Gredler, B; Sölkner, J. Genome-wide heterozygosity and pedigree inbreeding coefficients in Simmental cattle population. In: 9th WCGALP Organzing Committee (Ed.), CD-ROM: Article No. 931, 9th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production1-6.8.2010, Leipzig, Germany. [Conference paper].

Pérez-Pardal, L; Royo, L; Beja-Pereira, A; Chen, S; Cantet, R; Traoré, A; Curik, I; Sölkner, J; Bozzi, R; Fernández, I; Álvarez, I; Gutierrez, J; Gomez, E; Ponce de León, A; Goyache, F. (2010).Multiple paternal origins of domestic cattle revealed by Y-specific interspersed multilocus microsatellites. Heredity, 105: 511-519.

Pérez-Pardal, L; Royo, L; Beja-Pereira, A; Curik, I; Traoré, A; Fernández, I; Sölkner, J; Álvarez, I; Bozzi, R; Chen, S; Ponce de León, A; Goyache, F. (2010). Y-specific microsatellites reveal an African subfamily in taurine (Bos taurus) cattle. Anim. Genet. 41: 232-241.

Pielberg, G; Golovko, A; Sundström, E; Curik, I; Lennartsson, J; Seltenhammer, M H.; Druml, T; Binns, M; Fitzsimmons, C; Lindgren, G; Sandberg, K; Baumung, R; Vetterlein, M; Strömberg, S; Grabherr, M; Wade, C; Lindblad-Toh, K; Pontén, F; Heldin, CH; Sölkner, J; Andersson, L. (2008). A cis-acting regulatory mutation causes premature hair graying and susceptibility to melanoma in the horse. Nature Genet. 40: 1004-1009.

Farkas, J; Curik, I; Csató, L; Csörnyei, Z; Baumung, R; Nagy, I. (2007). Bayesian inference of inbreeding effects on litter size and gestation length in Hungarian Landrace and Hungarian Large White pigs. Livest. Sci. 112: 109-114.

Suwanlee, S; Baumung, R; Solkner, J; Curik, I. (2007). Evaluation of ancestral inbreeding coefficients: Ballou' s formula versus gene dropping. Cons. Genet. 8: 489-495.

Toth, Zs; Kaps, M; Soelkner, J; Bodo, I; Curik, I. (2006). Quantitative genetic aspects of coat color in horses. J. Anim. Sci. 84; 2623-2628.

Druml, T.; Curik, I; Baumung, R.; Aberle, K.; Distl, O.; Sölkner, J. (2006). Individual-based assessment of population structure and admixture in Austrian, Croatian and German draught horses. Heredity 98: 114-122.

Suwanlee, S., Curik, I., Sölkner, J., Baumung, R. Selection criteria to purge deleterious alleles. In: 8th WCGALP Organzing Committee (Ed.) , CD-ROM: 02-04, 8th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, 13.-18.8.2006, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. [Conference paper].

Feligini, M; Frati, S; Cubric-Curik, V; Brambilla, A; Parma, P; Curik, I; Greppi, Gian Franco; Enne, Giuseppe. (2005). Caprine alpha(s1)-casein polymorphism: Characterisation of A, B, E and F variants by means of various biochemical and molecular techniques. Food Technol. Biotech. 43: 123-132.

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.

Curik I, Zechner P, Sölkner J, Achmann R, Bodo I, Dovč 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.

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.

Software

Baumung R, Farkas J, Boichard D, Sölkner J and Curik I. GRain v2.1: A Computer Program to Calculate Various Ancestral and Partial Inbreeding Coefficients Based on Pedigree Records. /GRain21.zip download/

Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)

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

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