| Nutrition and related diseases and deficiencies; diabetes, obesity, non-communicable diseases. Pathologic processes that underlie diseases; molecular basis of carcinogenesis; oncogenes... Toxicology; animal health and disease. Vaccines. Molecular epidemiology. Molecular markers and diseases. Gene expression studies: microarrays; Pharmacogenomics. Cryopreservation techniques, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, embryo split and nuclear transplantation. Identification and manipulation of genes. Marker assisted selection in animal breeding programmes (e.g selection against stress sensitive pigs). Transgenic animals with new traits- less fat, high growth rate, high ovulation rate (e.g Fecundin gene) - transgenic animals as bioreactors for producing pharmaceutically important compounds and therapeutics. Disease diagnosis using DNA tools. Immunmodulation of animal castration and growth. |
Administrative assistant: Kajol Jogarah
Telephone: 4037400
Email: k.jogarah@uom.ac.mu |
