Volodymyr Ladyka
Academician of the NAAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Department of Livestock Production and Processing Technologies and Cynology
General Information
Date and place of birth: August 23, 1962, village of Pidlypne, Konotop District, Sumy Region, Ukraine.
Education
1984 — Graduated from the Sumy Branch of the V. V. Dokuchaev Kharkiv Agricultural Institute; qualification: zoo-engineer.
Professional Experience
1984–1987 — Chief livestock specialist at an agricultural enterprise in Krolevets District, Sumy Region.
1987–1989 — Full-time postgraduate student.
1990–1996 — Associate Professor, Sumy Agricultural Institute.
1996–2002 — Vice-Rector for External Affairs of Sumy NAU, Head of the Department of Specialized Animal Science.
1999–2000 — Dean of the Zooengineering Faculty, Sumy NAU.
2002–2003 — First Vice-Rector, Sumy NAU.
2003–2005 — Director of the Sumy State Breeding Center.
2005–2011 — Rector of Sumy National Agrarian University.
January–April 2011 — Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
May–July 2011 — Vice-President of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.
July–December 2011 — Acting Rector of Sumy NAU.
2011–2024 — Rector of Sumy National Agrarian University, Professor of the Department of Livestock Production and Processing Technologies and Cynology.
Main courses taught: “Milk and Beef Production Technology,” “Occupational Safety,” “Innovative Technologies for Processing Livestock Products,” “Horse Breeding.”
Research Work
Research areas: preservation of the gene pool of local and endangered cattle breeds; breeding of Ukrainian dairy cattle breeds; improvement of breeding programs and technologies for dairy and beef cattle; creation of high-yielding breeds, herds, and types of cattle; development of breeding and technological programs in dairy farming; certification of the genetic structure of the Brown cattle population based on genotyping Lebedyn cows by microsatellite markers; monitoring and forecasting genetic differences and molecular genetic research; semen quality analysis of Lebedyn and Ukrainian Brown dairy sires; modern standards for descriptive conformation traits; herd optimization by body type; natural resistance of dairy cows and its relation to milk yield; genealogical structure of the Ukrainian Brown dairy breed; biotechnological measures to preserve its gene pool.
Additionally: Chair of the Specialized Academic Council of Sumy National Agrarian University; member of the Specialized Academic Council of the M. V. Zubets Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics of the NAAS.
Publications indexed in Scopus and WoS:
• Ladyka, V., Skliarenko, Y., Pavlenko, Y., Metlytska, O., & Ivankova, I. (2019). Molecular-Genetic Analysis of Cows Genetic Structure and Determination of Genealogical Relatedness Level of Bulls of Modern Dairy Breeds. Advances in Animal and Veterinary Sciences, 7(5).
• Fotina, T. I., Fotina, H. A., Ladyka, V. I., Ladyka, L. M., & Zazharska, N. M. Monitoring research of somatic cells count in goat milk in the eastern region of Ukraine. Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society, 69(3), 1101-1108.
• Nazarenko, Y., Ladyka, V., Opara, V., & Pavlenko, Y. (2019). Determining the influence of the composition of milk from cows of different breeds on quality indicators for the Dutch-type cheese. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 1/11(97), 23-33.
• Nazarenko, Y., Ladyka, V., Opara, V., & Pavlenko, Y. (2019). Research of organoleptic parameters of Dutch cheese produced from milk of cows of different breeds. EUREKA: Life Sciences, (1), 52-58.
• Ladyka, V. I., Khmelnychyi, L. M., Lyashenko, Y. V., & Kulibaba, R. O. (2019). Analysis of the genetic structure of a population of Lebedyn cattle by microsatellite markers. Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystems, 10(1), 45-49. DOI
• Ladyka, V., Pavlenko, Y., & Sklyarenko, Y. (2021). Uso del polimorfismo del gen de la β-caseína en términos de preservación del ganado lechero marrón. Archivos de Zootecnia, 70(269), 88-94. (Scopus) DOI
• Ladyka, V., Drevytska, T., Pavlenko, J., Skliarenko, Y., Lahuta, T., Drevytskyi, O., & Dosenko, V. (2022). Evaluation of cow genotypes by kappa-casein of dairy breeds. Acta fytotechnica et zootechnica, 25(1), 1–6.
• Ladyka, V., Skliarenko, Y., Pavlenko, Y., Kovtun, S., Drevytska, T., Dosenko, V., Vechorka, V., & Malikova, A. (2023). Evaluation of stud bulls by beta-casein genotype in the context of conservation of local cattle breeds in Ukraine. Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, LXVI(1), 42-47. (WoS)
• Ladyka, V., Shcherbak, O., Trotskyi, P., Skliarenko, Y., Pavlenko, Y., & Vechorka, V. (2023). Application of modern biotechnological and genetic methods in the system of creating micro populations with the desired genotype to preserve the gene pool of the Ukrainian Brown dairy breed. Scientific Papers Series Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 23(3), 485-491. (WoS)
• Monograph: Ladyka V. I., Zhukorskyi O. M., Hrytsyniak I. I. et al. Genetic Resources of Domestic Farm Animal Breeds. Odesa: Oldi+, 2023. 336 p.
Industry Links; Grant, State-Funded and Contract Research
- “Substantiation of the methodology for improving and preserving the Brown cattle population in the North-Eastern region of Ukraine” (0117U004253; 2017–2019).
- “Improvement of dairy and dual-purpose cattle in open populations using modern methods of genotype evaluation and a breeding data collection system” (0116U005386; 01.01.2016–31.12.2021).
- “Methodology for forming cattle micropopulations with unique productive traits using breeding, genetic, and biotechnological methods” (0120U102006; 2020–2022).
- Partners: agricultural enterprises of Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions; Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics of the NAAS; Institute of Animal Science of the NAAS.
