Lithuanian Veterinary Academy and the collaboration with JRC

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Lithuanian Veterinary Academy and the
collaboration with JRC

• Antanas Sederevicius
• Vicerector of the Lithuanian Veterinary Academy

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Lithuanian Veterinary Academy (LVA)

• Founded in 1936, LVA is a university training
  veterinarians, animal husbandry technologists and
  specialists of public health
• 1500 students
• 50 PhD students
• Total number of staff 380
• 142 researchers and lecturers

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Teaching facilities

• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• 6 departments
• Faculty of Animal Husbandry Technology 5
  departments
• Continuing Education Centre
• Library

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Research and teaching facilities

• Milking Training Centre
• Practical Instruction and Research Centre
• Teaching Farm, Modern Cold Storage Farm
• Large and Small Animal Clinics
• Laboratory of Meat Characteristics and Quality
  Assessment
• 12 Research Laboratories

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Priorities in the Field of Research

• Development of research technologies
• Improvement of research publications
• Improving level and process of doctoral studies
• Joint research projects with industry
• Risk Assessment in the field of food, feed,
  animal health and welfare.

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Fields of future collaboration

• The impact of probiotics and fitobiotics on
  animal health (contact person dr. V. Oberauskas,
  vaidas_at_lva.lt)
• Animal productivity and production quality
  (contact person prof. R. Gruauskas,
  gruzauskas_at_lva.lt)
• Cholesterol reducing in animal production by the
  means of genetic improvements (contact person
  prof. C. Jukna, jukna_at_lva.lt)

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Fields of future collaboration

• Analysis of epidemiological features and
  molecular epidemiology of zoonotic diseases
  (contact person dr. M. arkunas, minsar_at_lva.lt)
• Studies of host/parasite interaction (contact
  person prof. S. Petkevicius, petkevicius_at_lva.lt)

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Thank you for attention