Poznan University of Life Sciences

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Area of interest: Optimizing genomic selection for improving novel traits Genetic aspects of methane emission from dairy cattle Education: 2009 – 2013:       Wageningen University, The Netherlands, PhD – Animal Breeding and Genetics 2009 – 2013:       Poznan University of Life Sciences, PhD  Candidate – Animal Breeding and                                              Genetics 2007 – 2009:       Wageningen University, The Netherlands,  MSc – Animal Breeding and Genetics 2003 – 2007:       Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland, BEng – Animal Husbandry Professional experience:  2014 – …:              Assistant Professor at Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland 2013 – 2017:         Short Term Scientific Missions Coordinator in Methagene COST Action FA1302 2008:                     Four months training in Animal Breeding and Genetics Group w Athens, Georgia,                                 USA at University of Georgia. 2006:                     Three months professional training at farm in Hodowla Roslin Strzelce Sp. z o.o.                                   Borowo, Poland. 2005 -2007:         Technical staff at Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznan                                                   University of Life Sciences, Poland Supervision: 2016:                     Marcin Szalanski, MSc Thesis „Variability of dairy cows’ methane emission from individual breath measurements” Invited talks: 2015:                     ‚Current status of genomic selection in Polish dairy cattle breeding’, 66th EAAP Annual Meeting, 31 August – 4 September, Warsaw, Poland 2015:                     ‚Methane emission data handling’ COST-METHAGENE Workshop, 7-9 October Wageningen, The Netherlands Scholarships, awards: 2014:                       Scholarship for Young Excellent Scientists, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland 2014:                       Scholarship for Young Scientists ‘START’, Foundation for Polish Science (success rate 10%) 2013:                       Scholarship for Young Scientists ‘START’, Foundation for Polish Science (success rate 11,8%) 2012:                       BSAS President’s Prize for the best theatre presentation at BSAS Annual Meeting, Nottingham, UK 2012:                       Best young scientist’s oral presentation prize at 25th Genetic Days, Wrocław, Poland 2011:                       Rommert Politiek Award for the best poster presented at EAAP Annual Meeting 2011, Stavanger, Norway 2011:                       Award for best PhD students of Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology (Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland) 2010:                       “H. Wilhelm Schaumann Stiftung Scholarship” to attend the 9th WCGALP in Leipzig and to present a paper at the congress 2007-2009:            MSc scholarship from The Koepon Foundation (Amersfoort, The Netherlands) Research grants: 2015:                       Grant for young scientists at Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology (Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland), main investigator 2013 – 2016           Grant from Polish National Science Centre (NCN), Genetic and phenotypic contribution to variability of methane emitted by dairy cows ,main investigator 2013 – 2017           EU COST Action (FA1302) Large-scale methane measurements on individual ruminants for genetic evaluations, management committee member. Short term scientific missions coordinator 2014:                       Grant for young scientists at Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology (Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland), main investigator 2011- 2013:           EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network grant, Greenhouse Milk, participant 2011:                       Grant for young scientists at Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology (Poznan  University of Life Sciences, Poland), main investigator 2011:                       Pre-doctoral grant of National Science Centre (Krakow, Poland), project leader and main investigator 2011:                       Grant for young scientists at Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology (Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland) , main investigator Associations Membership: 2011-…:                European Federation of Animal Science – EAAP 2013 – …:              Marie Curie Alumni Association 2013-…:                Polish Society of Genetics – PTG 2011-2012:          British Society of Animal Science – BSAS Selected papers: Dadousis C., Veerkamp R.F., Heringstad B., Pszczola M., Calus M.P.L., 2014, A comparison of principal component regression and genomic REML for genomic prediction across populations Genet Sel Evol 46:60 Pszczola M., Optimizing genomic selection for scarcely recorded traits, PhD thesis, 2013, ISBN 978-94-6173-766-3, Wageningen: Wageningen UR Pszczola M., Veerkamp R.F., de Haas Y., Wall E., Strabel T., Calus M.P.L., 2013, Effect of predictor traits on accuracy of genomic breeding values for feed intake based on a limited cow reference population, Animal 7(11):1759-1768 Calus, M.P.L., Y. de Haas, Pszczola M., Veerkamp R.F., 2013, Predicted accuracy and response of genomic selection for new traits in dairy cattle, Animal 7(2):183-191 Pszczola M., Strabel T., Mulder H.A., Calus M.P.L., 2012, Reliability of genomic selection for animals with different relationships within and to the reference population, Journal of Dairy Science 95:389-400 Pszczola M., Strabel T., van Arendonk J.A.M, Calus M.P.L., 2012, The impact of genotyping different groups of animals on accuracy when moving from traditional to genomic selection, Journal of Dairy Science 95:5412-5421 Pszczola M., Mulder H.A., Claus M.P.L., 2011, Effect of enlarging the reference population with (un)genotyped animals on the accuracy of genomic selection in dairy cattle, Journal of Dairy Science 94: 431-441 Pszczola M., Aguilar I., Misztal I., 2009, Short communication: Trends for monthly changes in days open in Holsteins, Journal of Dairy Science 29: 4689-4696