Anna Kukekova | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

Anna Kukekova is an associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Kukekova graduated from St. Petersburg State University in Russia and obtained her PhD at the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She then proceeded to a post-doctoral program at the Baker Institute for Animal Health at Cornell University where she was a research associate and subsequently a principal research scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Greg Acland. In 2002, she established a collaboration with Dr. Trut’s group at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences to study the genetics of complex behaviors in the fox model of animal domestication. In 2012, Dr. Kukekova joined the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

URLs:

http://ansci.illinois.edu/labs/kukekova-lab

https://ansc.illinois.edu/directory/avk

Primary Areas of Expertise:

Evolution, Genetics, Genomics

Symposium Speaker

Listed here are the 1 symposium sessions for which this person is a speaker.

Date	Media	Session	Symposium
2014-10-10		Fox Domestication and Genetics of Complex Behaviors	Domestication and Human Evolution