Applied Animal and Human Biotechnology

Description

After having been taught a variety of courses on protein and nucleic acid related techniques (e.g. molecular biology, gene technology, protein chemistry, genetics,...), this course focuses on the actual application of these techniques in today’s animal husbandry setting; as illustrated with examples. This course is taught using a blended teaching approach. We use the overarching theme of finding good scientific questions or problems as transferable skill the students can learn. Therefore students are encouraged to actively search for scientific questions or problems in animal production and design a strategy to answer or solve these problems or questions using biotechnology. On top of this, students will acquire project writing, literature documentation, idea pitching skills.