Name:   Tomasz
Surname:  Strabel
Title:  Prof. dr hab. inz.
Citizenship:   Polish
Position:   Professor at Poznan University of Life Sciences

Office address:  University of Life Sciences in Poznan, Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Wolynska 33, 60-637 Poznan, Poland, tel +48 61 8487248, fax +48 61 8487148

e-mail:   strabel@up.poznan.pl.

Education:

2007 - graduated from Agricultural University of Poznan, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, habilitation, "The use of random regression model for genetic evaluation of Polish dairy cattle"

1998 – graduated from Agricultural University of Poznan, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Ph.D. thesis „The use of test day data in genetic evaluations of dairy cattle”, supervisor dr. T. Szwaczkowski,

1992 - graduated from Agricultural University of Poznan, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, M.Sc. thesis „Estimating annual herd milk yield based on weekly production”, supervisor dr. Z. Sobek;

2009 Reward of The Prime Minister for the habilitation
1998 Foundation for Polish Science scholarship;
1991-1992 scholarship at the Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland;

Genetic evaluation of dairy and beef cattle;
Methods to measure and to control inbreeding;
Advanced tools to support breeding decisions;

Teaching:

Animal Breeding Programs
Methods in animal breeding;
Methods in animal breeding;
Introduction to mathematical statistics;
Dairy cattle extension / doradztwo hodowlane;

Other training:
 

2008 - four months at Wageningen University, The Neatherlands

2005 - one week course "Bayesian implementation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques." Department of Animal and Dairy Science, Univeristy of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA (prof. R. Rekaya & prof. I. Misztal)

2002 - two-month visit to the Department of Animal and Dairy Science, Univeristy of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA;

2000 - one month visit to the Department of Animal and Dairy Science, Univeristy of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA;

1998-2000 – 16 months visit to the Department of Animal and Dairy Science, Univeristy of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA; supervisor dr. Ignacy Misztal and dr. Keith Bertrand: writing computer program for dense matrix algebra; estimating genetic parameters for two-lactation model based on random regression test-day models; approximating accuracies for  multiple-trait models; working on multiple-breed evaluation model for beef-cattle evaluations;

1997 - one week course „Random regression in animal breeding” organized by University of Guelph (dr. J. van der Werf, dr. L. Schaeffer);

1994 - a short visit to the Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Agricultural University of Krakow, Poland (prof. A. Zarnecki);

1993 - two weeks at Scottish Agricultural College in Auchincruive (Scotland) and University College Cork (Ireland), training in animal husbandry, sponsored by Tempus;

1993 - one week of study at Saxonian Ministry of Agriculture, Germany;

1991 - one week course „Animal Model” conducted by dr. Ignacy Misztal, in Jastrzebiec, Poland;