Prof. Pedro Y. de la F

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Universidad Central Marta Abreu de La Villas,
CUBA Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal
Husbandry
Agrobiodiversity education in the frame of
the Master Program Advanced Animal Health
Prof. Pedro Y. de la Fé Rodríguez, PhD
Head of Department of Vet Medicine and Animal
Husbandry. Ctra. a Camajuani Km 5 S. Clara VC
Cuba 54830. Tel. [phone] e-mail
pedrodlfr_at_uclv.edu.cu
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Introduction
Courses Module Credits
Obligatory    
Research Methodology I 3
Molecular Biology I 3
Biostatistics I 3
Molecular Epidemiology II 3
Proteins studies and application in biosciences II 3
Immunology II 3
Nutrition and Health III 3
Biosafety III 3
Programs for Diseases Control III 3
Methodologies for the diagnose III 3
Optative    
Bioinformatics IV 2
Advances in animal nutrition IV 2
Poultry diseases IV 3
Zoonosis IV 3
Food safety IV 3
Internal Diseases of Animals IV 3
Reproduction biology and pathology IV 3
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Introduction
Research activities Credits
Publication in a national journal 2
Publication in an international journal 4
Presentations in national events 3
Presentations in international events 4
Publication of a monograph 1
Approval of projects, patents or registers 2
Resume of the program Credits
Obligatory courses 30
Optative courses 20
Thesis 38
Optative from research activities 16
Total 104
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Methodologic work

• Selected Courses for emphasizing on
  agrobiodiversity

Course Module Credits Time distribution Time distribution Time distribution
Course Module Credits Presential Independent work Total
Nutrition and Health III   3     36h (25)   108h (75)   144h  
Programs for diseases control III   3     36h (25)   108h (75)   144h  
Biosafety III   3     36h (25)   108h (75)   144h  
Molecular biology I   3     36h (25)   108h (75)   144h  
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Methodologic work
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.

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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.

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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?

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Methodologic work

• Evaluation of the courses

• Routine evaluations (seminars, practicums,
  homework, informs)
• Final exam (Programs for Diseases Control and
  Molecular Biology)

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Bibliography for the courses

• Access to information

• 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.

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