Fundamentals of Biotechnology Animal Biotechnology Haji Akbar M Phil.
Food Animal Biotechnology · Food Animal Biotechnology The use of biological technologies that are...
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Food Animal Biotechnology
Introduction to Animal Biotechnology and to FAB
Food Animal Biotechnology 2014
Concept
• Food Animal Biotechnology (FAB) expands knowledge of basic animal physiology and biotechnology and applies it to the production of healthy and sustainable animal-derived foods (ADF)
• FAB is relevant to food security, food product quality and the health of the animal and the consumer
• FAB focuses on mammary/milk and muscle/meat but also covers other ADF as well as the use of transgenic animals as pharmaceutical bioreactors
Example: Milk
How is milk made?
Lactation physiology
etc Environmental physiology
Endocrine physiology
Nutrition physiology
How can we use biotechnology to
improve this?
Biotechnology has made the world a different place. Biotechnology has made it possible…
…to identify the genetic causes behind many inherited diseases
…for people to survive to much greater population density by providing more food per acre
So what is biotechnology?
Example: Milk
How is milk made?
Lactation physiology
etc Environmental physiology
Endocrine physiology
Nutrition physiology
How can we use biotechnology to
improve this?
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Food Animal Biotechnology
The use of biological technologies that are based on knowledge of animal physiology to improve..
• Healthy productivity of food animals and hence
achieve greater food security
• Food product quality, and hence improve the health of the consumer
• Environmental impact, and hence sustainability
What’s possible, what’s “good”, what’s not?
Some ”biotech” words
• Recombinant DNA
• Transgenic
• Clone
• Genetically modified (GM)
• Mutant
• Stem cell (ESC, iPSC)
• High genetic merit
• Epigenetic
• The ”omics”:
• Genomics
• Transcriptomics
• Proteomics
• Metabolomics
• Functional Genomics
Levels of biological organisation
• Molecular
• Subcellular
• Cellular
• Tissue
• Organ
• Organ System
• Animal
• Systematic
Issues
Genotype and Phenotype
FAB Focus
• The food animal:
• How food animals work
• How we can improve the way they work..
• …to benefit us and them
The ADF progression
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Food Animal Biotechnology
SLEK10287U
7.5 ECTS A
Meat and Milk Production
SLEK10189U 7.5 ECTS A
Meat as a Raw Material
NFOK13001U 7.5 ECTS A
Meat Processing
NFOK13005U 7.5 ECTS A
Animal
Production unit
Raw product
Processed product
FAB Structure
• 6 units
• Unit 1: Global Food Security (running unit)
• Unit 2: Muscle and Meat (miniproject)
• Unit 3: Mammary Gland and Milk
• Unit 4: Biotechnology in Practice
• Unit 5: Product Quality
• Unit 6: Animal Health and Welfare (miniproject)
FAB Structure
• Each Unit includes lectures and group learning exercises
• Some of the Units also include a mini project that continues into the next week
• The Pensum comprises lecture notes and a collection of scientific articles collected into a Course Manual
• The exam has 6 sections, one for each Unit, and you must answer 4 of the sections
• Each exam section has 5 multiple choice questions and one short essay ques
FAB Manual
Use it!