Senior Research Assistant & Laboratory Manager

Education:

MS Animal Science – Slovak Agricultural University, Nitra, Slovakia, 1991

Positions and Employment

2000-2001: Research Assistant, Division of Reproductive Sciences, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Oregon Health Sciences University, Beaverton, OR

2001-present:   Senior Research Assistant, Department of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

2003–2005 Staff Council member, College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, U. of Missouri

2001-present, member, Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)

Awards

Staff Development Grant award, CAFNR, U. of Missouri 2006

Staff Development Grant award, CAFNR, U. of Missouri 2007

Staff Development Grant award, CAFNR, U. of Missouri 2008

 

Publications  – SCOPUS 2003-2021: Total of 55 publications, 1,578 citations, h index 25

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.

Kerns K, Sharif M, Zigo M, Xu W, Hamilton L, Sutovsky M, Ellersieck M, Drobnis EZ, Oko R, Miller D, Sutovsky P (2020) Sperm cohort-specific zinc signature acquisition and capacitation-induced zinc flux regulate sperm-oviduct and sperm-zona pellucida interactions. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 21(6):2121; Special Issue on Advances in Molecular Regulation of Spermatozoa Function.

Kelsey KM, Zigo M, Thompson WE, Kerns K, Gaurishankar Manandhar G,  Sutovsky M, Sutovsky P (2020) Reciprocal surface expression of arylsulfatase A and ubiquitin in normal and defective mammalian spermatozoa. Cell Tissue Res., 379:561-576.

Huang Q, Liu H, Zeng J, Li W, Zhang S, Zhang L, Song S, Zhou T, Oko R, Sutovsky M, Sutovsky P, Pardi R, Hess RA, Zhang Z (2020) COP9 signalosome complex subunit 5, an IFT20 binding partner, is essential to maintain male germ cell survival and acrosome biogenesis. Biol. Reprod., 102: 233-247.

Kerns K, Zigo M, Drobnis EZ, Sutovsky M, Sutovsky P (2018) Zinc ion flux during mammalian sperm capacitation. Nature Communications, 9(1):2061. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04523-y

Mao J, Pennington KA, Talton OO, Schulz LC, Sutovsky M, Yan L, Sutovsky P (2018) In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to High Fat, High Sucrose Diet Suppressed Testis Apoptosis and Reduced Sperm Count. Scientific Reports 8:7622.

Song W, Yi Y-J, Sutovsky M, Meyers S, Sutovsky P (2016) The art and science of sperm mitophagy. Autophagy 12:2510-2511.

Song W, Yi Y-J, Sutovsky M, Meyers S, Sutovsky P (2016)Autophagy and ubiquitin-proteasome system contribute to sperm mitophagy after mammalian fertilization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113:E5261-70