Prof. Pedro Y. de la Fé Rodríguez, PhD

Agrobiodiversity education in the frame of theMaster Program Advanced Animal Health

Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de La Villas, CUBADepartment of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry

Head of Department of Vet Medicine and Animal Husbandry. Ctra. a Camajuani Km 5 S. Clara VC Cuba 54830.

Tel.: +5342208905 e-mail: pedrodlfr@uclv.edu.cu

Introduction

Courses Module CreditsObligatory    Research Methodology I 3Molecular Biology I 3Biostatistics I 3Molecular Epidemiology II 3Proteins: studies and application in biosciences

II 3

Immunology II 3Nutrition and Health III 3Biosafety III 3Programs for Diseases Control III 3Methodologies for the diagnose III 3Optative    Bioinformatics IV 2Advances in animal nutrition IV 2Poultry diseases IV 3Zoonosis IV 3Food safety IV 3Internal Diseases of Animals IV 3Reproduction: biology and pathology IV 3

Introduction

Research activities CreditsPublication in a national journal 2Publication in an international journal

4

Presentations in national events 3Presentations in international events 4Publication of a monograph 1Approval of projects, patents or registers

2

Resume of the program CreditsObligatory courses 30Optative courses 20Thesis 38Optative from research activities

16

Total 104

Methodologic work

Selected Courses for emphasizing on agrobiodiversity

Course ModuleCredit

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Time distribution

Presential Independent

workTotal

Nutrition and Health

III  3 

 36h (25%)

 108h (75%)

 144h

 

Programs for diseases control

Biosafety

Molecular biology I

Current target topics in every selected course: how agrobiodiversity education should be implemented

Course Nutrition and health

Antinutritional factors. Strategies in animal feeding: Introducing sustainable strategies to attenuate antinutritional factors from local plants (candidates for animal feeding) in order to efficiently use them as alternative local resources.

Biostimulants in animal nutrition: Deepen in the study of biostimulants of vegetal origin that can be obtained locally. Also, special emphasis on bee products should be considered.

Prebiotics, probiotics and cofactors: Explaining the fact that the diverse surrounding environment is a source of these elements.

Nutrients: Importance of recovering, maintaining and enriching biodiversity in order to have different sources of the diverse nutrients.

Uses of biotechnology for the preparation of food for animal feeding: Regulations regarding the use of genetic modified organisms for animal feeding and during the preparation of food, as well as their repercussion on agrobiodiversity.

Toxics and toxic plants in animal feeding: Studies on how to diminish the toxic effect of some plants and how they can be controlled by environmental friendly methods.

Methodologic work

Current target topics in every selected course: how agrobiodiversity education should be implemented

Course Programs for diseases control

In most of topics related with infectious diseases: Hemolytic, Diseases of the Central Nervous System, Gastroenteric, Respiratory diseases, Skin and muscles diseasess, Swine red diseases, Granulomatous diseases, Retroviral diseases

Emphasizing in the sources and ways of transmission of pathogens, especially in how the wild fauna affect farm animals, but also must be introduced the ways livestock influence on wild fauna

Focusing the majority of problems of emerging and reemerging diseases as the result of disruptions of ecosystems and biodiversity.

Introduction to researches in wild fauna genomics, aimed on looking for pathogens-resistant genes or even antibiotic/antiparasitic susceptibility genes for application in livestock.

Multispecies farms and biodiversity. Epidemiological risks of multispecies farms because of multispecies adaptation of pathogens. Improving biodiversity by diversification of animal strains, and also by diversification of pathogens.

Use of alternative methods for controlling pathogens identifying/using biotic relations and medicinal plants from the same agroecosystem.

Methodologic work

Current target topics in every selected course: how agrobiodiversity education should be implemented

Course Molecular Biology

Mechanisms of genetic conservation: Explaining how to use genetics in order to recover, maintain and enrich biodiversity.

Transposons and Transposable elements: Explaining the mechanisms of transmission of resistance through mobile genetic elements from animal microbiota to microbial ecology, and vice versa.

Course Biosafety

Regulations regarding biotechnology policies, ethics, property rights, safety and socio-economic problems.

Biosafety and biotechnology. Definition and perception of risks for the agriculture: Emphasizing on genetic modified organisms and the role of veterinarians in the interface wildlife-livestock/domesticated animals/laboratories: what do they have to know about biodiversity?

Methodologic work

Methodologic work

Evaluation of the courses

Routine evaluations (seminars, practicums, homework, informs)

Final exam (Programs for Diseases Control and Molecular Biology)

University libraries (faculty and university ones, Institute of Plant Biotechnology and Centre for Agriculture Research).

Every course has a folder in the central server of the faculty network containing the program of the course, electronic books, scientific papers, materials elaborated by professors, thesis of former students, PhD thesis, virtual laboratories.

Interactive platform in Moodle.

The central library of the University warrant access to the main international databases.

Every student has an University account to access internet and international mail.

Bibliography for the courses

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