Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Media Expertise

Professor Stefan Hiendleder

Telephone	+61 8 8313 7814
Position	JS Davies Professorial Fellow
Email	stefan.hiendleder@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 7972
Building	J.S. Davies building
Floor/Room	G 05
Campus	Roseworthy
Org Unit	Veterinary Science

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Biography/ Background

Stefan Hiendleder studied Agricultural/Animal Science 1982-1987 at Justus-Liebig-University (JLU) Giessen, Germany where he obtained a PhD working on sheep endocrinology and cellular metabolism in 1989. He was appointed Assistant Professor Animal Breeding and Genetics at JLU in 1990. After sabbaticals at the Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan (1991) and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (1993) he obtained a habilitation degree in Animal Genetics (Dr. agr. habil.) with a thesis on 'Isolation and Characterization of QTL Candidates in Ruminants' in 1996. He worked at JLU as Associate Professor until joining the Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology Group at the Gene Center of the Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany in 2001. Dr. Hiendleder focused on the emerging field of Epigenetics and completed a second habilitation degree (Dr. med. vet. habil.) with the thesis ‘Non-Mendelian Effects in Animal Breeding and Biotechnology’. He was appointed JS Davies Professorial Fellow in 2005 and leads a research group investigating non-mendelian genetic effects.

Qualifications

Dipl.-Ing. agr. (MSc Animal Science) Justus-Liebig-University (JLU) Giessen, Germany

Dr. agr. (Ph.D.) JLU

Dr. agr. habil. (habilitation) JLU

Dr. med. vet. habil. (habilitation) Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Animals and veterinary science, Fertility & reproduction
Expertise	Animal Genetics; Animal Biotechnology; Non-Mendelian Inheritance; Epigenetics; Mitochondrial DNA; Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer; Cloning; Embryo; Fetus; Imprinting; Gene Expression; Evolution of Domestic Animals; Sheep; Cattle

Entry last updated: Friday, 21 Sep 2012

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