From Nigeria at IZSAM for a PhD on CBPP

Doctor Jasini Athanda Musa of the Microbiology and Parasitology Department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, attended a six-month period of training at IZSAM (from the 16^th October to the 1^st of April 2015) financed by the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB).

The activities focused on the molecular characterisation of strains of Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides (Mmm), the causative agent of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), which were isolated in the North of the Nigerian country. The training activities of the semester consisted in: the study of the origin of the samples taken from bovines affected by the disease, the preparation of the fields for the isolation and identification of the mycoplasma, the update of the conduction of diagnostic test and DNA extraction from the isolated strains.

20 April 2015

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The training course "Animal welfare principles" was held from 24 to 26 November as part of the OIE Twinning on animal welfare between IZSAM and the Ecole Nationale de Médecine Vétérinaire (ENMV) of Tunisia.

LEarning GenOmics for food safety - LEGO

The final conference of the LEGO project will be held on 20 Decembre. The initiative, funded by the European Erasmus+ Programme and led by IZSAM, defined the new professional profile of the Food Microbial Bioinformatician (FMB). Registrations are possible until

15 Decembre.

eLearning course: Food Microbial Bioinformatician

IZSAM is the lead partner of the project “LEGO LEarning GenOmics for food safety”. The project is aimed at defining and training an innovative, interdisciplinary professional profile - (FMB) - responding to the need to apply the most modern Genomics to Food Safety.