Prof. Vlatka Čubrić Čurik, PhD

Professor
Division for Animal Sciences
Department of Animal Science
Office location: 2nd Pavilon, 2nd floor, room 052
Phone: +385 1 239 4008
Email: vcubric ( at ) agr.hr
Languages: Croatain, English, Italian
Consultations: Thursday, from 12:00 pm -14:00 pm
Academic qualifications
- 2005 - 2009: PhD
University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
The diversity of sheep prion gene protein of the Croatian coast and islands - 2001 - 2005: Ms
University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
Genetic polymorphism of sheep milk proteins - 1992 - 1998: Bs
University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
Numerical analysis of level of inbreeding in Croatian simmental Cattle
Employment and work experience
- 2016 - : University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
Associate professor - 2011 - 2016: University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
Assistant professor - 2009 - 2011: University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
Postdoctoral researcher - 2005 - 2009: University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
Assistant - 2000 - 2005: University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
PhD student
Teaching
- Konzervacijska genetika (157195)
- Populacijska genetika (157196)
- Populacijska i kvantitativna genetika u životinja (173827)
- Molekularna genetika životinja (144442)
- Osnove oplemenjivanja domaćih životinja (156990)
- Varijabilnost Y kromosoma i mtDNA (144444)
- Animalna genetika (185435)
- Struktura i analiza animalnog genoma (116380)
- Genetika mesa (87436)
- Oplemenjivanje životinja i planovi selekcije (246891)
Research interests
- Laboratory methods for molecular biodiversity
- Analysis of molecular- genetic data
- Study of the population of domestic animals and their wild relatives
- Study of prion protein gene of the different species of animals
- Archaeogenetics
Training and research experience
- 2001/02/01 - 2002/06/01: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Animal Genetics, Vienna, Austria (scientific)
Genetic differentiation of sheep breeds in the eastern part of the Alps - 2000/02/01 - 2000/04/30: nstitut'L. Spallanzani', Milan, Italy (scientific)
Milk protein polymorphism in autochthonous Croatian sheep
Projects
scientific
expert
Title | Funding | Duration | AFZ role |
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Uvođenje trave Miscanthus kao energetske kulture za grijanje plastenika na OPG-u | VIP - Vijeće za istraživanja u poljoprivredi | 2012/11/13 - 2014/11/13 | coordinator |
teaching
Title | Funding | Duration | AFZ role |
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Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Agriculture in Alps-Adriatic Region | EU programi | 2013/12/01 - 2016/11/30 | coordinator |
university support
Title | Funding | Duration | AFZ role |
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Prostorne informacije u istraživanju domaćih životinja | Sveučilište u Zagrebu | 2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31 | coordinator |
Arheogenetika goveda u Hrvatskoj; ekstrakcija i priprema aDNA do sekvenciranja | Sveučilište u Zagrebu | 2016/01/01 - 2016/12/31 | coordinator |
Identifikacija signala selekcije u genomu domaćih životinja pomoću visoko rezolutne genomske informacije | Sveučilište u Zagrebu | 2015/01/01 - 2015/12/31 | coordinator |
Publications
- Iacolina, L., Brajković, V., Canu, A., Šprem, N., Cubric-Curik, V., Fontanesi, L., Saarma, U., Apollonio, M. and Scandura, M. (2016), Novel Y-chromosome short tandem repeats in Sus scrofa and their variation in European wild boar and domestic pig populations. Anim Genet, 47: 682–690. doi:10.1111/age.12483
- Ristov, S., Brajkovic, V., Čubrić Čurik, V., Michieli, I., Čurik, I. (2016) MaGelLAn 1.0: a software to facilitate quantitative and population genetic analysis of maternal inheritance by combination of molecular and pedigree information. Genetics selection evolution 48: 65 doi.org/10.1186/s12711-016-0242-9
- Monteiro Ferreira A, Tomás Marques A, Bhide M, Cubric-Curik V, Hollung K, Knight CH, et al. (2015) Sequence Analysis of Bitter Taste Receptor Gene Repertoires in Different Ruminant Species. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0124933.
- Čubrić Čurik, Vlatka; Feligini, Maria; Ferenčaković, Maja; Džidić, Alen; Salajpal, Krešimir; Ambriović-Ristov, Andreja; Ćetković, Helena; Majhen, Dragomira; Čurik, Ino: Sequence polymorphism of PrP exon 3 gene in Istrian and crossbred sheep. Italian journal of animal science (ISSN 1594-4077) 8 (2009), S3; 86-88 doi.org/10.4081/ijas.2009.s3.86
- Baumung, R., Cubric-Curik, V., Schwend, K., Achmann, R. and Sölkner, J. (2006), Genetic characterisation and breed assignment in Austrian sheep breeds using microsatellite marker information. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 123: 265–271. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0388.2006.00583.x
- Feligini, M., Vlaco, S., Cubric Curik,V., Parma, P., Greppi, G. F. and Enne, G. (2005) A single nucleotide polymorphism in the sheep kappa-casein coding region. Journal Dairy Research.
doi.org/10.1017/S0022029905000932
Bibliography (CROSBI): https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/znanstvenici/263164
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?hl=hr&user=bI31as0AAAAJ
Other professional activities
- 2016 - 1986: Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus
2012 - Guest editor of the scientific editon Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus - 2012 - 2015: Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus
Editorial Board of the scientific editon Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus - 2011 - 1984: Animal Science Days, Primošten
2011 - Organization of conference, Animal Science Days, Primošten - 2001 - 2001: Croatian Scademy of Science and Arts
Organization of conference, Biodiversity in livestock production in Croatia, HAZU Zagreb, Secretary of conference