Habib+Jan

Habib U. Jan is from Pakistan.
====He was selected for the award of EU PhD fellowship as Early Stage Researcher (ESR) in an open International competition. He is working as Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (PhD Student) in the lab of Prof.Dr.Rod Snowdon at Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen,Germany under the Marie Curie INTERCROSSING programme which is INnovative Training Environment for Researchers Combining the Resources Of Statistical Science, Informatics N& Genetics. ====

**Current research Interests **
====The title of his PhD project is "Genome-wide Prediction of agronomic traits in hybrid Rapeseed (//Brassica napus//) using single-nucleotide polymorphic (SNP) markers". ==== ====During his project,he will test genomic prediction statistical models for higher accuracy and will select the best parental combinations which could give high heterosis! He will use both phenotypic (field) and genotypic data (Single Nucleotide Polymorphic markers).Habib will also work on genome-wide association mapping using SNP marker data to correlate these molecular markers with heterosis for different traits in canola. ====

**Collaboration **
====They are collaborating with the commercial partner i.e. NPZ Lembke (Germany) and academic partner Prof.Richard Nichols (Professor of Genetics) and Andrea Hatlen (ESR) in Queen Mary, University of London. ====

**Previous Academic Background and Awards **

 * ====Habib did his Bachelor (Honours) in Animal Sciences and M.Sc (Hons) in Animal Breeding & Genetics from KPK Agricultural University Peshawar,Pakistan.He was among the top three students during his studies in Pakistan and awarded Bronze medals in both Bachelor and Master respectively. ====
 * ====He is the recipient of European Master scholarship under Erasmus Mundus (M.Sc in Animal Breeding & Genetics) executed at BOKU, Vienna (Austria) and AgroParisTech,Paris (France), session 2009-2011. During his European Master thesis, he worked in the lab of Biology, Development and Reproduction (BDR) INRA Jouy-en-Josas (France) under Dr.Amelie Bonnet-Garnier and Dr.Nathalie Beaujean. ====
 * ====He worked on the ribosomal RNA genes during early embryonic development (both embryos and oocytes). ====
 * ====He is also the recipient of EU funded Marie Curie PhD scholarship under INTERCROSSING 2012. ====

**Publication(s) **

 * ====Jan HU, Abbadi A, Lücke S, Nichols RA, Snowdon RJ (2016) Genomic Prediction of Testcross Performance in Canola (//Brassica napus//). PLoS ONE 11(1): e0147769. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147769 ====
 * ====Bonnet-Garner et al.2013 "Genome organization and epigenetic marks in mouse germinal vesicle oocytes". Int. J. Dev. Biol. 56: 877-887 (2012)doi: 10.1387/ijdb.120149ab ====
 * ====Habib U.JanLunwen Qian, Rod J. Snowdon (2016), Genome-wide associations unravel genomic regions contributing to hybrid performance in rapeseed (//Brassica napus//) (In the review process). ====
 * ====<span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lunwen Qian, Kai Voss-Fels, Habib U.Jan, Ruifang Wei, Birgit Samans, Christian Obermeier, Wei Qian and Rod Snowdon (2016) Deletion of a stay-green gene associates with adaptive selection in //Brassica napus//. Mol Plant. 2016 Nov 4. pii: S1674-2052(16)30264-7.doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2016.10.017 ====
 * **<span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.066em;">Oral presentations/Posters (International) **
 * ====<span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Selected speaker at the International Congress of Rapeseed, (IRC2015), Saskatoon, Canada, 5+9, July. 2015. " Genomic prediction of test cross performance in Canola". ====
 * ====<span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oral presentation in Aarhus (Denmark) "Genomic selection in Plant Breeding: Practicable or otherwise” June, 2014. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Invited speaker at BAYER, Crop Science, Ghent (Belgium)”Genomic prediction in hybrid canola” April, 30. 2015. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Presented a poster on "Genome-wide prediction in Brassica napus" in a population genetics conference "PopGen47" held at Bath University, UK, 7-10 Jan.2014. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Participated in "Nature Live" show in Natural History Museum (NHM) in London on 15/10/2014 and explained about his current research to the common audience during a public engagement session. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presented a poster on "Genome-wide association study to unravel genomic regions contributing to hybrid performance in Brassica napus “in Ghent (Belgium) during <span style="color: #261010; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.066em; line-height: 1.5;">INTERCROSSING ESRs conference on April 28, 2015. ====