PhD Student
University of Missouri
My name is Natalie Zelenkova, I am a visiting Ph.D. student in Dr. Peter Sutovsky's lab in the Division of Animal Sciences at the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, originally from the Department of Veterinary Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic. My research is focused on the mammalian sperm post-fertilization mitophagy using a porcine model. I am studying proteins that are possible candidates to be involved in the degradation of porcine sperm mitochondria shortly after fertilization.