Hasan Khatib, Associate Professor

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

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.

Professional background

2008- date: Department of Dairy Science, The University of Wisconsin. Associate Professor
2002- 2008: Department of Dairy Science, The University of Wisconsin. Assistant Professor
1998-2001: Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Post-doc
2001-2002: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Researcher at Department of Genetics.
2000-2002: Institute of Genetic Identification, Jerusalem. Director
1997-2002: The David Yellin College of Education, Jerusalem, Israel. Lecturer.
1995-1997: Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. Genetic counseling.

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