Graduate student (PhD candidate)

Education:

B.S. Animal science – South Dakota State University, South Dakota, USA

PhD candidate, Reproductive physiology – University of Missouri, Missouri, USA

Positions:

2015 – 2017      Undergraduate Researcher, Department of Animal Science, South Dakota State University

2016 – 2017      Gilt Selector, Genesus Genetics, Summer 2016  Intern Researcher, USDA Meat Animal Research Center

2017 –           PhD. Student, Department of Animal Science, University of Missouri

Awards/Honors:

2021: University of Missouri CAFNR Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Award

2020: H. A. Herman Memorial A. I. Industry Scholarship

2018: Student oral presentation competition prize, Biannual Meeting of the Association for Applied Animal Andrology, New Orleans, July 14-16, 2018.

2017    1st Place Undergrad poster, Presented at Gamma Sigma Delta poster competition, South Dakota State University.

2018    Larry Ewing Memorial Trainee Travel Award, Presented at 51th Annual Meeting of the Society for Study of Reproduction, 10-13 July 2018 in New Orleans, LA.

2018    Student Competition Finalist Presenter, 11th Biannual Meeting of Association for Applied Animal Andrology, 14-16 July 2018 in New Orleans, LA.

2021 MU CAFNR Thesis Improvement Award

Publications:

Mao J, Zigo M, Zuidema D, Sutovsky M, and Sutovsky P (2021) NEDD4-like ubiquitin ligase 2 protein (NEDL2) in porcine spermatozoa, oocytes, and preimplantation embryos and its role in oocyte fertilization. Biol. Reprod., 104(1):117-129.

Zigo M, Maňásková-Postlerová P, Zuidema D, Kerns K, Jonáková V, Tůmová L, Bubeníčková F, Sutovsky P (2020) Porcine model for the study of sperm capacitation, fertilization and male fertility. Cell Tissue Res., 380(2):237-262.

Zuidema D. & Sutovsky P. (2020). The Domestic Pig as a Model for the Study of Mitochondrial Inheritance, Cell & Tissue Research, 1-9, Doi: 10.1007/s00441-019-03100-z

Sutovsky P., Kerns K., Zigo M., Zuidema D. (2019). Boar Semen Improvement through Sperm Capacitation Management, With Emphasis on Zinc Ion Homeostasis, Theriogenology, Doi: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2019.05.037

Major scientific meeting abstracts:

Mammalian Cell-Free System for the Study of Mitochondrial Inheritance, Poster and Oral presentation. Presented at the 11th Biennial Conference of Association for Applied Animal Andrology (AAAA), 14-16 July, 2018 in New Orleans, LA.

Mammalian Cell-Free System for the Study of Mitochondrial Inheritance, Poster. Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR), 10-13 July, 2018 in New Orleans, LA.

Comparison of Igenity Silver Profile and Zoetis PredicGEN DNA Tests in Crossbred Beef Cattle, Poster. Presented at the Midwest American Society of Animal Science Annual Meeting, 13-15 March, 2017 in Omaha, NE.