Our Team
Prof. Tomasz Sadkowski
Lab Director / Principal Investigator
Research interests focus on genes, muscle development, gene expression, and animal physiology, particularly in livestock species such as cattle, bovine models, and horses. Work includes transcriptomic approaches such as microarray analysis, miRNA/microRNA profiling, pathway analysis, and gene regulation studies.
Dr. Anna Ciecierska
Researcher
Research focuses on muscle and skeletal muscle biology, with emphasis on gene expression, biochemistry, cellular differentiation, and myogenesis. Studies explore muscle-related processes in animals including horses, and the effects of nutritional compounds such as gamma-oryzanol and β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB).
Dr. Zahra Roudbari
Researcher
Zahra Roudbari is an Associate Professor at the University of Jiroft, specializing in animal genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics. Her research applies high-throughput transcriptomics and RNA-seq analysis to study livestock traits, including muscle development, marbling, and genetic diversity. She investigates lncRNAs, circRNAs, and alternative splicing to advance livestock breeding.
Abdolvahab Ebrahimpour Gorji
PhD Student
PhD project, supervised by Tomasz Sadkowski, investigates the molecular basis of 3-hydroxy-3-methylbutyrate (HMB) in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The research integrates bioinformatics, transcriptomics, and multi-omics approaches to study muscle regeneration, myogenesis, and the molecular mechanisms through which HMB may support therapeutic strategies for muscular dystrophies.
Marta Gozdek
PhD Student
Research interests include Holstein and Holstein Friesian cattle genetics, with a focus on haplotype analysis, genotyping, and the identification of genetic markers associated with important biological and production traits.
Farideh Tahmoresi
PhD Student
Farideh Tahmooresi is a PhD researcher in Molecular Biology studying Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Her research focuses on the effects of beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate on dystrophic muscle cells using in vitro cell culture models, miRNA/mRNA expression analysis, Real-Time qPCR, Western blotting, fluorescence microscopy, and bioinformatics approaches. Her work aims to investigate muscle regeneration, oxidative stress, inflammatory responses, and key cellular signaling pathways involved in dystrophic muscle pathology.