Professor Dr Tosso Leeb

Tosso Leeb is a molecular geneticist working with domestic animals. Since 2005 he is the director of the Institute of Genetics at the Vetsuisse-Faculty of the University of Berne. His research focus is the elucidation of causative mutations for hereditary traits in domestic animals (dog, cat, horse, cattle, sheep, pig, goat). His group discovered the mutations underlying hairlessness in dogs, dominant white coat color in horses, and several hereditary diseases in various domestic animal species. He is also a member of several international animal genome projects and has specifically contributed to the sequencing of the horse genome.