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About Erdogan Memili

Cooperative Agricultural Research Center College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, Prairie View A&M University

Dr. Memili graduated as a veterinarian with DVM at Istanbul University, followed by graduate research in microbial genetics and mammalian embryo development during his MS and Ph.D. studies at Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. He did epigenetics stem cell research during his postdoc at Harvard followed by basic and applied research on development of transgenic animals in Boston at Genzyme Transgenics. In fall of 2015, Dr. Memili did sabbatical research at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He served as a faculty member from Assistant to full professor in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at Mississippi State University where he had research, teaching and service appointments.
 
He has a wide experience from genomics and industry to animal and veterinary sciences dating all the way back to his childhood on his Mediterranean farm with sheep, goats and cattle as well as horses that he would ride from the age of six. He completed his postdoctoral training and faculty sabbatical at Harvard and Cornell, respectively. In research, he leads a globally recognized research group pursuing fundamental research to improve fertility in livestock for food security using systems biology approaches within the concept of systems physiology. The collaborative and multidisciplinary research is aimed at uncovering sperm fertility markers and improving sperm cryopreservation. The research with his collaborators and students has been funded by diverse agencies and published and presented in numerous journals and conferences, respectively.
 
His passion and purpose are to make positive impact on agricultural science, education and the society. Currently, he oversees the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center and facilitates success of the faculty in research which is linked to the other two missions of the land grant university: Education and Extension.

Positions

2022 - Present Executive Associate Director, Prairie View A&M University ‐ College of Agriculture & Human Sciences
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2017 - 2022 Professor, Mississippi State University ‐ Dept. of Animal and Dairy Sciences
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2011 - 2016 Associate Professor, Mississipi state university ‐ Dept. of Animal and Dairy Sciences
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2004 - 2010 Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University ‐ Dept. of Animal and Dairy Sciences
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2001 - 2004 Research Scientist, GTC Biotherapeutics
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1999 - 2001 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin- Madison ‐ Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology
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1999 - 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School ‐ Harvard Institute of Human Genetics
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Disciplines

Research Interests

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Education

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Sabbatical. Genetics, Cornell University
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Postdoc. Genetics & Epigenetics, Harvard Medical School
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Ph.D. Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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M.S. Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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D.V.M. Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University
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Recent Works (13)

Journal Publication (63)