University of Murcia
Dra. Maria Antonia Gil is a professor at the University of Murcia, Spain. She obtained her degree in Veterinary Medicine in 1995 and her PhD in 2001 from the University of Murcia. She spent 9 months as PhD student and 6 months as a postdoc at the Animal Science Center at the University of Columbia-Missouri (USA) under Prof. Billy N. Day. Since then, she has held research positions at the University of Murcia and has been a full professor since 2020. Her research has primarily focused on porcine reproductive biotechnologies including deep intrauterine insemination, cryopreservation of gametes and embryos, in vitro production of embryos, embryo collection and non-surgical embryo transfer and sexing sperm technology. Her group has achieved several milestones, including producing the first piglets worldwide born by non-surgical deep uterine embryo transfer with in vivo fresh and vitrified embryos, the first litters of pre-selected sex by minimally invasive procedures and the first litters born through a combination of a low number of frozen sperm and deep intrauterine insemination. Currently, the group is investigating the regulation of the oviductal and uterine maternal environment by gametes and embryos in vivo and genome edition with CRISPR/Cas technology.
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