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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Department of Animal and Food Science

Director's Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Mª Dolors Izquierdo Tugas

Professor in the area of Animal Production (2008).
Head of the Department of Animal and Food Sciencie.

Short CV

Academic Education

  • Degree in Veterinary Medicine. UAB. 1992
  • Master's Degree in Animal Production. UAB. 1996
  • PhD in Veterinary Medicine. UAB. 1997

Teaching

  • Subjects:
    • Animal Production and Handling (Veterinary Degree).
    • Ethnology and Ethology (Bachelor's Degree in Veterinary Medicine)
    • Animal Production I (Veterinary Degree)
    • Embryonic biotechnology applied to livestock (Veterinary Degree)
    • Livestock Production and Ecological Agriculture (Veterinary Degree)
    • Production of Raw Materials (Bachelor's Degree in Food Science and Technology)
    • Organic Food Production (Bachelor's Degree in Food Science and Technology)
    • Master's Degree in Food Quality of Animal Origin.
    • Doctoral Programme in Animal Production.
  • Member of the Teaching Innovation Group of the Veterinary Faculty Medicine and participation in teaching innovation projects on transversal competencies in degrees and their assessment, the Service-Learning (SL) methodology and the use of Artificial Intelligence in teaching.

Research

  • Expert in in vitro production of embryos in ruminants. Participation, together with Dr. Mogas and Dr. Morató, in obtaining the first calf produced in vitro in Catalonia (2008).
  • Member of the consolidated research group (SGR) "Reproductive Biotechnology in Livestock Species (BRER)" (2009SGR0621, 2014SGR0547), "Animal Reproduction Biotechnology" (2017SGR1229) and "Mammalian Reproductive Biotechnology" (BioRep) (2021SGR00900)
  • He has published more than 50 international papers, several book chapters and supervised 6 doctoral theses. ORCID: 0000-0002-1954-2868
  • He has participated in numerous competitive research projects of the National Plan, in 3 as principal investigator, and in the thematic network of excellence "In vitro production of embryos of animals of veterinary interest" (07/2017 – 06/2019)

Selection of Recent Posts

  1. Effect of BMP15 and GDF9 in the IVM medium on subsequent oocyte competence and embryo development of prepubertal goats (2025). Theriogenology 234:164-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2024.12.015
  2. Effect of biphasic in vitro maturation (CAPA-IVM) on EGF receptor and embryo development of prepubertal goat oocytes according to follicle size. Animal Biotechnology 35 (1) (2024): 2422316.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10495398.2024.2422316
  3. Impact of semen cryopreservation season on in vitro embryo production of prepubertal goat oocytes. Reproduction in Domestic Animals 59(3) (2024): e14594. https://doi.org/10.1111/rda.14594
  4. Oocyte Competence of Prepubertal Sheep and Goat Oocytes: An Assessment of Large-Scale Chromatin Configuration and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Expression in Oocytes and Cumulus Cells (2024). International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25: 4474.                 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25084474
  5. Fatty Acids and Metabolomic Composition of Follicular Fluid Collected from Environments Associated with Good and Poor Oocyte Competence in Goats. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2022, 23(8), 4141; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23084141
  6. Effect of follicle size on hormonal status of follicular fluid, oocyte ATP content, and in vitro embryo production in prepubertal sheep. Domestic Animal Endocrinology, 2021, 75, 106582; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.domaniend.2020.106582
  7.  Effect of crocetin added to IVM medium for prepubertal goat oocytes on blastocyst outcomes after IVF, intracytoplasmic sperm injection and parthenogenetic activation. Theriogenology, 2020, 155, 70-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2020.06.008
  8. Effect of vitrification of in vitro matured prepubertal goat oocytes on embryo development after parthenogenic activation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (2020). Cryobiology 93:56-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2020.02.011
  9. Reproductive technologies in goats (Chapter 4). In: Reproductive tecnologies in Animals. 2020. Academic Press. ISBN 9780128171073 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817107-3.00004-7
  10. Small Ruminants: Prepubertal Oocyte Donors. In: Herrick J (ed) Comparative Embryo Culture. Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 2006). (2019) pp 155-163. Humana, New York, NY. ISBN: 978-1-4939-9565-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9566-0_11
  11. Activin-A receptor expression patterns in prepubertal goat oocytes and derived embryos. Reproduction in Domestic Animals, 2019, 54, 804-807. https://doi.org/10.1111/rda.13416

University Management

  • Coordinator of the Veterinary Degree and President of its Academic Monitoring and Quality Committee (CSAQ) (2011 - 2014)
  • Coordinator of the departmental unit of Animal Science and of the PhD studies in Animal Production and president of its academic committee (2016 - 2020). Member of the PhD studies Committee of the UAB (2017 –2020)
  • Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs and Quality of Veterinary Faculty (2020 –2023)
  • Veterinary Faculty Equality Policy Representative (1/2020 – 1/2023)
  • Member of the Teaching and Research Staff Protection Committee (PDI) of the UAB as a representative of contracted teaching staff (2018 – 2021)
  • Participation in the evaluation committees:
    • UAB Teaching Innovation Projects 2021 and 2022
    • TFG Awards for Sustainable Development and Global Justice (courses 19/20, 20/21 and 21/22) and TFG on gender (19/20 and 20/21)
  • Head of the Department of Animal and Food Science since January 2023.
  • Member of the CSAQ of the studies of Veterinary Medicine and Food Science and Technology, of the Faculty Board, and of the Senate of the university for several periods.