Prof. Dorota Fopp-Bayat is employed at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Faculty of Animal Bioengineering, Head of the Department of Ichthyology and Aquaculture, UWM, in Olsztyn, Poland. Education background: Professor, 2018, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, Faculty of The Environmental Sciences and Fisheries, Department of Ichthyology; Habilitation, 2010, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, Faculty of The Environmental Sciences and Fisheries, Department of Ichthyology; Ph.D., 2003, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, Faculty of The Environmental Sciences and Fisheries, Department of Evolutionary Genetics; M.Sc., 1998, University of Agriculture and Technology in Olsztyn, Department of Fisheries and Water Protection, Faculty: Fisheries. Specialization: aquaculture, analysis of fish gametes, biology and ecology of fish, molecular genetics, molecular markers in aquaculture, fish embryology, fish genetics, fish reproduction, population genetics, genetic identification of species and hybrids, and genome manipulation in fish. Interests: andrology, fish welfare, sturgeon conservation, cytogenetics, aquaculture biotechnology, and sex determination in fish.