Hasan Khatib Associate Professor 632 Animal Sciences Building 1675 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706-1284 Phone: (608) 263-3484 Fax: (608) 263-9421 hkhatib@wisc.edu

Biographical Information

Welcome to Dairy Cattle Genetics

Hasan Khatib, Associate professor of Dairy Science. He earned his BS degree in Biology (1985), MS degree in Human Genetics (1988), and Ph.D. in Genetics (1995) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Israel. From 1997 to 2001 Dr. Khatib had an appointment in teaching strategies of teaching and sciences at David Yellin College in Jerusalem. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison in 2002, he served as genetic counselor in Israel on prevention of genetic diseases among Palestinians and a director of the "Institute for Genetic Identification" in Israel. Dr. Khatib’s current research interests are identification of genes of economic importance in dairy cattle (milk production, health and reproduction traits) and studying the imprinting status of the cattle genome and investigating sequence characteristics of imprinted genes in mammalian species.

Research

1. Identification of candidate genes affecting milk production, health and fertility traits in dairy cattle.
2. Genomic imprinting and allelic variation in expression of bovine genes: correlation between allele-specific expression and phenotypic variability.
3. Investigation of candidate genes affecting embryonic survival in cattle.

• Peer Reviewed Publications
• Patents
• Presentations
• Abstracts
• Chapters in Books

Links

• UW-Madison Dairy Science Department
• UW-Madison Graduate School