Biotechnologies Applied to Bioscience and Sustainable Animal Production
The research line Biotechnologies Applied to Bioscience and Sustainable Animal Production was designed based on the analysis of research carried out by professors linked to our graduate program. Evidences support the use of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology tools in order to study bioactive products, techniques applied to reproduction, morphology, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, parasitology, genetics and epigenetics of interest in Animal Bioscience.
It covers research on natural vegetable or microbial products with biological activity, as well as the possibility of their use in bioscience and animal production.
The proposed line includes Sustainable Animal Production, in compliance with the need for food alternatives for ruminants and non-ruminants. Actions may also be included to improve, in a sustainable manner, animal nutrition (study of forages and nutritional value, for example), genetic improvement, selection and crossbreeding; production systems (intensive, semi-intensive, extensive) and products of animal origin
This research line is comprised, in terms of student education, by the mandatory subjects:
- Research Project Writing and Analysis;
- Seminars;
- Experimental statistics applied to animal science.
This research line is comprised, in terms of student education, by the optional subjects:
- Teaching Activity in Health and Animal Production;
- Animal Morphophysiology Bases;
- Hospital Practice in Animal Clinics;
- Hospital Practice in Animal Surgery;
- Quantitative Methods in Morphological Analysis;
- Subjects in Stress Physiology and Animal Welfare;
- Use of Animals as Experimental Models for the Study of Metabolic Diseases;
- Advanced topics in metabolism of teleost fish
- Food Analysis and Evaluation
- Advanced topics in reproductive morphophysiology
- Clinical and surgical aspects related to equine reproduction.
- Integrated nutrition of dairy cattle
- Fish Nutrition
- Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism for Ruminants
The student enrolled in this line will be able to choose, according to its interest and consent of the advisor, the optional subjects that best suit their formation and qualification. The offer of optional subjects will be characterized by flexibility, providing the student with possibilities to compose their syllabus, in agreement with the advisor professor and the need for further research.