Dr hab. Heliodor Wierzbicki UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Faculty of Biology and Animal Science Department of Genetics  e-mail: heliodor.wierzbicki@up.wroc.pl phone: +48/71/3205780, fax: +48/71/3205758 Kożuchowska 7, 51-631 Wrocław, POLAND

Research projects/interests:

• Evolutionary and landscape genetics
• Population and quantitative genetics
• Marker assisted selection (MAS)
• Statistical genetics
• Genetic diversity in wild animals

Scholarships and courses:

• Postgraduate study in biology, University of Opole, 1994 - 1996.

• International Workshop on "Intensive dairy cattle and sheep production", Shefayim, Israel, November 12 -  December 16, 1997.

• Postgraduate course on "The design and economics of animal breeding strategies"" Warsaw Agricultural University, August 10 - 21, 1998.

• Danish Government's Scholarship at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Copenhagen, Denmark, September 1, 1998 - January 31, 1999.

• Course on "Advanced animal breeding", The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Copenhagen, Denmark , September 1 -  December 15, 1998.

• Course on "Teaching sustainable use of animal genetic resources", The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, May 31 -  June 11, 1999.

• Finnish Government's Scholarship at the MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Animal Production, Jokioinen, Finland, August 1 - September 30, 2001.

• Socrates/Erasmus (teaching staff mobility) - lectures at the University of Applied Sciences, Triesdorf, Germany, June 16 - 22, 2003.

• Socrates/Erasmus (teaching staff mobility) - lectures at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, September 18 - 25, 2005.

• Socrates/Erasmus (teaching staff mobility) - lectures at the University of Lleida, Spain, June 5 - 10, 2006.

• Socrates/Erasmus (teaching staff mobility) - lectures at the University of Applied Sciences, Triesdorf, Germany, June 19 - 25, 2006.

• Course "Basics of quantitative genetics. Genetic variation and breeding value estimation" - lectures for the Ukrainian scientists and academic teachers. Institute of Pig Breeding, Poltava, Ukraine, September 20 - 27, 2008.

• "Genetic association course" - Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, May 3 - 7, 2010.

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