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American-Israeli agricultural geneticist

Morris Soller (born 1931) is an American-Israeli research professor in the Department of Genetics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is especially interested in livestock- and crop- genetics including trypanotolerance in cattle.

Early life and education

Soller was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1931. At the age of 12 he was first inspired to learn about genetics by reading The Theory of the Gene by Thomas Hunt Morgan. While an undergraduate he read Jay Laurence Lush's Animal Breeding Plans and learned much from it – and interestingly would receive the award named for Lush 50 years later – see below. Soller also learned much from the writings of Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright during this time. In 1951 he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture and then in 1956 both a Master's Degree in Applied Statistics and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Animal Breeding from Rutgers University. He would later return to his birth country for further postdoctoral education at Indiana University and Roosevelt University in biochemistry.

Research and teaching career

In 1957 he was hired by the Volcani Center as their senior scientist for animal breeding and by Bar-Ilan University as a senior lecturer of Biology and Genetics. He moved his family to Israel where they have lived most of their lives since. Between 1966 and 1972 Soller was a lecturer at Roosevelt University in the USA. In 1972 he returned to Israel to lecture at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of Genetics. He would eventually become a full professor and emeritus professor in 2000. He has since continued actively in lecturing and research including sabbaticals as the Cotswold Visiting Scientist at Iowa State University, at the University of Illinois and elsewhere.

Soller is the originator of quantitative trait locus mapping and marker-assisted selection. He began noticing the statistical patterns and composing the mathematical tools that would be required for these techniques in 1974, while studying crop genetics and livestock genetics. He went on to collaborate with his students and peers to create the F2, backcrossing, full sib, half sib, granddaughter, AIL and selective DNA pooling techniques in QTL mapping. Along with other laboratories around the world, his group developed some of the earliest restriction fragment length polymorphism markers for cattle and microsatellite markers for chickens.

He has especially become known for using these techniques to analyse trypanotolerance in cattle, especially in the N'Dama breed. Soller has also applied QTL analysis to dairy traits and Marek's disease.

Professional recognition

discovery of genetic science"

Publications

As of 2012 Soller had authored and coauthored over 170 peer reviewed publications, and many book chapters and encyclopedia articles. The organisms he has studied include cattle and chickens, but also extend to plants, viruses, mice, pigs and others.

—Popularly cited including by
— An autobiography Soller was invited to write by Annual Reviews

References

  1. ^ Soller, Morris (2015-02-16). "If a Bull Were a Cow, How Much Milk Would He Give?". Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 3 (1). Annual Reviews: 1–17. doi:10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110751. ISSN 2165-8102. PMID 25493539. S2CID 46733451.
  2. ^ "Soller" (PDF). International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG).
  3. ^ Khatib, Hasan (2012-06-28). "Foreword". Animal Genetics. 43 (s1). International Foundation for Animal Genetics (Wiley): 1. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2052.2012.02390.x. ISSN 0268-9146. PMID 22742497. S2CID 26400727.
  4. Womack, James E. (2012). Bovine genomics. Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. xi+271. ISBN 978-0-8138-2122-1. OCLC 780445244. ISBN 978-1-118-30173-9.
  5. Iowa State University (2011). pp. 1–120 https://www.graduation.iastate.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/programs/program-s11.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. "Honorary Members". International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  7. van der Waaij, Elisabeth Hillechien. Breeding for trypanotolerance in African cattle (phd). Animal Breeding and Genetics Group Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences. ISBN 90-5808-458-2. S2CID 80958484.
  8. Kemp, S.J.; Teale, A.J. (1998). "Genetic Basis of Trypanotolerance in Cattle and Mice". Parasitology Today. 14 (11). Elsevier: 450–454. doi:10.1016/s0169-4758(98)01334-9. ISSN 0169-4758. PMID 17040846. S2CID 3253779.
  9. Darvasi, Ariel (1998). "Experimental strategies for the genetic dissection of complex traits in animal models". Nature Genetics. 18 (1). Nature Portfolio: 19–24. doi:10.1038/ng0198-19. ISSN 1061-4036. PMID 9425894. S2CID 25815459.
  10. Naessens, J. (2006). "Bovine trypanotolerance: A natural ability to prevent severe anaemia and haemophagocytic syndrome?". International Journal for Parasitology. 36 (5). Australian Society for Parasitology (Elsevier): 521–528. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.384.4142. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.02.012. ISSN 0020-7519. PMID 16678182. S2CID 11889368.
  11. d'Ieteren, G.D.M.; Authie, E.; Wissocq, N.; Murray, M. (1998-04-01). "Trypanotolerance, an option for sustainable livestock production in areas at risk from trypanosomosis". Revue Scientifique et Technique de l'OIE. 17 (1). O.I.E (World Organisation for Animal Health): 154–175. doi:10.20506/rst.17.1.1088. ISSN 0253-1933. PMID 9638808. S2CID 1188831.

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