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Peter Dovč
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Agricultural Science
Genetics
Molecular Biology
Veterinary Medicine

Peter Dovč

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Summary

Peter Dovč graduated from the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana in 1981 and entered graduate course in Genetics and Animal breeding at the same Faculty. In 1984 he entered the doctoral program at the Technical University of Munich, from which he received his PhD degree in 1988. After having postdoctoral positions at Justus Liebig University in Giessen and at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, he joined Gendiagnosezentrum in Grub, Munich in 1992. In 1994/95 he was visiting scholar at the Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis. From 1995 he is teaching Genetics, Animal breeding, Animal Biotechnology and Molecular Biology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. At the Department of Animal Science of the Biotechnical Faculty is he leading a research group in the field of comparative genomics and genome biodiversity. He is serving as a reviewer for several international scientific journals and for different research agencies. He is visiting professor at the University of Sarajevo, University of Osijek and Erasmus/Socrates professor at the University of Milan. He received scientific awards from Technical University of Munich (1990), Joung professor's award from the University of Ljubljana (1997), International Society for Animal Genetics (1998), Slovenian national Sigismund Zois research award (2007), University of Ljubljana Award (2018) and Fran Jesenko Award for life achievements (2019).

Agricultural Science Animal Behavior Biotechnology Genetics Genomics

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Ljubljana

Work details

Full professor

University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty
October 1995
Department of Animal Science
Teaching genetics, animal biotechnology, animal breeding, genomics, horse breeding, bee genetics

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
July 31, 2019
TLR2 polymorphism (rs650082970) is associated with somatic cell count in goat milk
Jernej Ogorevc, Mojca Simčič, Minja Zorc, Monika Škrjanc, Peter Dovč
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7340 PubMed 31396440