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Christina Marie Rochus


Position/Title: Research Associate
email: crochus@uoguelph.ca
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I am a Research Associate and Mitacs Elevate Fellow working in Christine Baes’ group on the Resilient Dairy Genome Project.  My research interests include working with genomic data to study genetic diversity and adaptation in domestic and wild animals.

 

Education

  • PhD in Agriculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden), 2017
  • PhD in Animal Genetics, AgroParisTech (Paris, France) and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Tolosan-Castanet, France), 2017
  • MSc in Integrative Biology, University of Guelph (Guelph, ON, Canada), 2013
  • BSc in Animal Biology, University of Guelph (Guelph, ON, Canada), 2011

 

Postdoctoral research experience

  • Wageningen University and Research (Wageningen, the Netherlands), 2019-2021
  • Visiting postdoctoral researcher, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA), 2018
  • Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden), 2017-2018

 

Publications

  • Cole JB, Makanjuola BO, Rochus CM, van Staaveren N, Baes CF (2023). The effects of breeding and selection on lactation in dairy cattle. Animal Frontiers, 13(3):55-63 (https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfad044)
  • Pettersson ME, Fuentes-Pardo AP, Rochus CM, Enbody ED, Bi H, Väinölä R, Andersson L (2023). A long-standing hybrid population between Pacific and Atlantic herring in a subarctic fjord of Norway.  Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023:evad069 (https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad069)
  • Steensma M, Lee YL, Bouwman AC, Pita Barros C, Derks MFL, Bink MCAM, Harlizius B, Huisman AE, Crooijmans RPMA, Groenen MAM, Mulder HA, Rochus CM (2023).  Identification and characterisation of de novo germline structural variants in two commercial pig lines using trio-based whole genome sequencing. BMC Genomics, 24:28 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-023-09296-3)
  • Wu Z, Bosse M, Rochus CM, Groenen MAM, Crooijmans RPMA (2023). Genomic insight into the influence of selection, geography and crossbreeding on population structure.  Genetics Selection Evolution, 55:5 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-022-00775-x)
  • Steensma M, Lee YL, Bouwman AC, Pita Barros C, Derks MFL, Bink MCAM, Huisman AE, Crooijmans RPMA, Groenen MAM, Mulder HA, Rochus CM. 2022. Detection and characterisation of de novo structural variants in pigs. In: Book of Abstracts of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_562).
  • Rochus CM, Wood BJ, Baes CF. 2022. Variation in male autosomal recombination in turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo). In: Book of Abstracts of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_592).
  • Martin AAA, Oliveira HR, Fonseca PAS, Rochus CM, Id-Lahoucine S, Canovas A, Baes CF, Schenkel FS. 2022. Is stillbirth genetically unstable? Influence of transmission distortions and copy number variants on stillbirth. In: Book of Abstracts of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_678).
  • Oliveira Jr GA, Rochus CM, Alcantara L, Lynch C, Schenkel FS, Baes CF (2022). Genetic architecture of fertility traits in hormonally synchronized and heat detected dairy cows.  Interbull Bulletin, Proceedings of the 2022 Interbull meeting (No. 57): 4-7 (https://journal.interbull.org/index.php/ib/article/view/1847/1840).
  • Martin AAA, Id-Lahoucine S, Fonseca PAS, Rochus CM, Alcantara L, Tulpan D, Leblanc S, Miglior F, Casellas J, Canovas A, Baes CF, Schenkel FS (2022).  Gametic incompatibility: unravelling the genetics of non-random fertilization.  Scientific Reports, 12:22314 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26910-8)
  • Ghoreishifar SM, Rochus CM, Moghaddaszadeh-Ahrabi S, Davoudi P, Ardestani SS, Zinovieva NA, Deniskova TE, Johansson AM (2021).  Shared ancestry and signatures of recent selection in Gotland sheep.  Genes, 12(3), 433 (https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12030433)
  • Rochus CM, Jonas E, Johansson AM (2020).  Population structure of five native sheep breeds of Sweden estimated with high density SNP genotypes.  BMC Genetics, 21 (27) (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-0827-8)
  • Pettersson, ME, Rochus CM, Han F, Chen J, Hill J, Wallerman O, Fan G, Hong X, Xu Q, Zhang H, Liu S, Liu X, Haggerty L, Hunt T, Martin FJ, Flicek P, Bunikis I, Folkvord A, Andersson L (2019).  A chromosome-level assembly of the Atlantic herring – detection of a supergene and other signals of selection.  Genome Research (https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.253435.119).
  • Rochus CM, Westberg Sunesson K, Jonas E, Mikko S, Johansson AM (2019).  Mutations in ASIP and MC1R: Dominant black and recessive black alleles segregate in native Swedish sheep populations.  Animal Genetics (https://doi.org/10.1111/age.12837).
  • Holborn M, Rochus CM, Ang KP, Elliott JAK, Leadbeater S, Powell F, Boulding EG (2019).  Family-based genome wide association analysis for salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) resistance in North American Atlantic salmon using a 50K SNP array.  Aquaculture, 511 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2019.734215).
  • Rochus CM, Tortereau F, Plisson-Petit F, Restoux G, Moreno C, Tosser-Klopp G, Servin B (2018).  Revealing the selection history of adaptive loci using genome-wide scans for selection: an example from domestic sheep. BMC Genomics, 2018:19(71) (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4447-x).
  • Rochus CM, Holborn MK, Ang KP, Elliott JAK, Glebe BD, Leadbeater S, Tosh JJ, Boulding EG (2018).  Genome-wide association analysis of salmon lice (Lepeoplhtheirus salmonis) resistance in a North American Atlantic salmon population.  Aquaculture Research, 2018:1-10 (https://doi.org/10.1111/are.13592).
  • Rochus CM, Johansson AM (2017).  Estimation of genetic diversity in Gute sheep: pedigree and microsatellite analyses of an ancient Swedish breed.  Hereditas, 154:4 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s41065-017-0026-4).
  • Mukiibi R, Rochus CM, Andersson G, Johansson AM (2015).  The use of endogenous retroviruses as markers to describe the genetic relationships among local Swedish sheep breeds.  Animal Genetics, 46(2):220-223 (https://doi.org/10.1111/age.12264)
  • Rochus CM, Mikko S, Näsholm A, Johansson AM. 2014. ASIP and MC1R mutations causing black coat colour in five Swedish sheep breeds. In: Book of Abstracts of the 10th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Vancouver, Canada (http://www.wcgalp.org/system/files/proceedings/2014/asip-and-mc1r-mutations-causing-black-coat-colour-five-swedish-sheep-breeds.pdf)