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Laboratory of Animal Breeding & Husbandry
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Koutsouli Panagiota

Assistant Professor of Animal Breeding
Laboratory of Animal Breeding & Husbandry

Biography
She graduated from the Higher Agricultural School of Athens from the Animal Production Department on 13-1-1988. She won an IKY scholarship after successful exams in November 1988 for a PhD thesis at the Agricultural University of Athens. She received her Ph.D. in December 1995 with a degree “excellent”. The title of her doctoral dissertation was: “Study of the genetic structure of the main Greek sheep breeds”. From October 1992 to April 1995 was researcher with contract in research programs of the Animal Breeding and Husbandry Laboratory. From 2005-2017 she was Lecturer, and from August 2017 to date she is Assistant Professor (Department of Animal Science) with a subject “Genetic Improvement of Farm Animals”. She had participated in six research projects (national and international) and she is author and co-author of 22 scientific publications.
Research Interests
  • Genetic relationships of livestock breeds
  • Genetic improvement of farm animals
  • Quality of sheep products
  • Population, biochemical and molecular Genetics of farm animals
  • Protein and DNA polymorphisms in sheep & goats
  • Genetic and Statistical analyses of population data from farm animals
Recent Publications
  • Armaou E., Simitzis P., Koutsouli P., Zoidou E., Massouras T., Goliomytis M., Bizelis I. and I. Politis, 2018. The effect of extended milking intervals (24, 48 and 72 h) on milk yield, milk composition, mammary physiology and welfare traits in dairy ewes. Journal of Dairy Research 85, 416-422.
  • Nikolaou K., Koutsouli P., Papadimitriou D. and I. Bizelis, 2019. Quality characteristics of beef carcasses produced in Greece, Thessaloniki. Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference on Meat and its Products “From the stable to the plate”. Zootechnia 2019, Thessaloniki 1-3 February 2019.
  • Invernizzi G., Koutsouli P., Savoini G., Mariani E., Rebucci R., Baldi A. and I. Politis, 2019. Oxidative indices as metabolic stress predictors in periparturient dairy cows, Italian Journal of Animal Science, 18:1, 1356-1360,
  • Laliotis G.P, Koutsouli P., Sotirakoglou K., Savoini G. and I. Politis, 2020. Short communication: Association of oxidative stress biomarkers and clinical mastitis incidence in dairy cows during the periparturient period. Journal of veterinary research (accepted).
  • Papachristou D., Koutsouli P., Laliotis G.P., Kunz E., Upadhyay M., Seichter D., Russ I., Gjoko B., Kostaras N., Bizelis I. and I. Medugorac, 2020. Genomic diversity and population structure of the indigenous Greek and Cypriot cattle. GSE (accepted).

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