| Department of Veterinary Pathobiology | |||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | Post experience masters programme | ||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: 48 hours before the examination all examinant get 8 subjects. Each participant prepare a 15 minute lecture on each of the subjects and will draw one subject to present on the examination day. 13-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | |||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||
| The participant will understand principles for breeding and generating laboratory animals, including genetically modified animals, will have a knowledge of their housing and maintenance, and will be able to reflect over the construction of an animal facility. | |||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
| The participant will after the course fulfill qualifications within laboratory animal maintenance, breeding, biology and genetics needed for qualification within animal experimentation on FELASA catgory D level | |||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||
| Laboratory animal genetics including gene modification and cloning; housing, economics and staff organisation in the lab animal facility; basic ethology, behaviour, learning and cognition of laboratory animals. | |||||||||||||
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| Lectures, practical and theoretical exercises | |||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
| Houdebine L-M: Animal Transgenesis and Cloning, Wiley, 2003. Entire book. ISBN 0-470-84827-8 (Hardback) or 0-470-84827-6 (Paperback) Westphal, So Simple, almost anyone can do it, NewScientist, August 2002, 16-17. Silverman J: Managing the Laboratory Animal Facility, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2002, Entire book. ISBN 0-8493-1233-7. The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Mangement of Laboratory Animals, Volume 1, Blackwell Science, 1999.Pp 1-134, 141-188, 262-658, 677-696 Crawley JN: What´s wrong with my mouse? Wiley-Liss, 2000. Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10. | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, dobj@life.ku.dk, Department of Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 35332724 | |||||||||||||
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