Konrad Dabrowski

CURRICULUM VITA

Dr. Konrad Dabrowski current research interests concentrate on possible links between nutrition and genetics primarily freshwater fish, walleye, yellow perch, carp and hybrids although Atlantic salmon has become most recently the species that also attracts a lot of attention in the North central region of the US. We work how to better understand the mechanisms governing sex differentiation, viability, and performance in the industrial setting of hybrids and polyploids. Recommendation of the American Academy of Science stipulates that culture of fish as human food should include sterility as part of domestication to minimize or eliminate introgression and potential negative effects on wild fish stocks and general fish species diversity. Students in my lab will be exposed to controlled reproduction, early life history, maturation, sex reversal, gynogenesis of several fish species. Dr Dabrowski collaborates with researchers from China, Czech Republic, Turkey, so there will be opportunity to become familiarized with aquaculture science and practice abroad

Research Interests

• Fish physiology, particularly nutritional biochemistry of larval stages of freshwater species cyprinids, coregonines, salmonids, esocids, and percids
• Fish nutrition, particularly metabolism and requirement of ascorbic acid and tocopherol
• Evolutionary aspects of ascorbic acid synthesis in aquatic animals' aquaculture methods in reproduction and rearing of freshwater fishes with emphasis on fish bioenergetics in intensive systems, ponds, and lake cages
• Sperm physiology, mechanisms of sperm-egg interaction in lamprey, sturgeon and teleost fish.
• Sperm cryopreservation.

Key words

Aquaculture, Nutrition, Early Life History, Fish, Genetics