Education:

- M. Sc. in Agriculture (1991), Fac. Agric., Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt.

- B. Sc. in Animal Breeding (1997), Fac. Agric., Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt.

- Ph. D. in Animal Genetics (2002), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Running projects:

• Population genomic analysis of genetic differentiation & selection sweeps in Asian water buffaloes (2018-2022).
• Impact of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Major Candidate Genes on Milk Production Traits in Egyptian Buffalo (2021 to 2023).
• The Sino-Moroccan Joint Laboratory of Sheep and Goat Genetics and Germplasm Innovation (2023 to 2025).

Recent Publications:

1. Lu X. R., et al. (2020). Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals Genetic Diversity, Linkage Disequilibrium, and Selection for Milk Production Traits in Chinese Buffalo Breeds. J. Dairy Sci, 103 (5): 4545-4556.
2. Juan Deng; et al. (2020). Paternal Origins and Migratory Episodes of Domestic Sheep. Current Biology 30 (20), 4085–4095.
3. Xiaoya Maet al. (2021). Evolutionary analysis of the OAT gene family in river and swamp buffalo: potential for the SLCO3A1 gene in milk performance. Genes12 (9), 1394.
4. Shen-he Liu, et al. (2021). Transcriptome-wide m6A analysis provides novel insights into testicular development and spermatogenesis in Xia-Nan cattle. Frontiers in Cell and Devel. Biology, 9 - Article 791221.
5. Feng-Hua Lv, et al. (2021). Whole-Genome Resequencing of Worldwide Wild and Domestic Sheep Elucidates Genetic Diversity, Introgression, and Agronomically Important Loci. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39 (2): msab353.

Shenhe Liu, et al. (2022). Novel insights into heat tolerance using metabolomic and high-throughput sequencing analysis in dairy cows rumen fluid. Animal, 16 (3), 100478