Core Scientist Moved to career track fellow position at the Roslin Institute Image Research at the Highlander Lab My main research interest is in the development of novel breeding methodologies and tools. This work involves a synergy between theoretical, quantitative genetics and practical animal breeding. Ongoing research: Optimisation of long-term selection in layer chickens Role of dominance in optimal contribution selection Impact of mitochondrial genome on milk production traits in cattle Development and optimisation of scalable genomic evaluation models Background Before taking a post at the Roslin Institute with Gregor Gorjanc, I have been a postdoc with Ignacy Misztal at the University of Georgia, US, where I also obtained my PhD. My main expertise is the application of genomic selection on big datasets for various species (pig, chicken, cattle, etc.) and various models, with emphasis on single-step genomic prediction. Previously, I worked at the Croatian department for breeding value estimation and obtained an MSc in Animal Genetics and Breeding, and BSc in Agricultural Economics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. I am specifically interested in: Animal breeding Quantitative genetics Long-term sustainability of breeding programmes Models for genomic evaluations Mega-scale genomic evaluations Programming language and software: Bash shell scripting R, SAS, JMP Git version control system (CLI, GitHub, GitLab) AlphaSimR AlphaMate Basic Fortran BLUPF90 family of programs MS Office Experience with various server and cluster (HPC) environments Experience with various OS (macOS, Windows and Linux distributions) Hobbies and personal interests Football Videogames Reading Playing guitar Relevant links Google Scholar GitHub ORCID Twitter LinkedIn Research Gate This article was published on 2024-09-02
