Genetics and Breeding for Disease Resistance of Livestock

Dr. Aruna Pal is Assistant Professor at West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences (WBUASFSCI). She obtained her MVSc at the National Dairy Research Institute, India, and her PhD in Animal Genetics and Breeding at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute. She has acted as Convenor for the Human Genetics and Genomics Task Force for India’s Ministry of Science and Technology and currently heads the Animal Genomics lab for WBUASFSCI’s Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding. Her research focuses on mitochondrial genetics and diseases using animal models. She has authored multiple books, including Elsevier’s Genetics and Breeding for Disease Resistance of Livestock. Dr. Atish Kumar Chakravarty former head of the Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding at the ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (Deemed University) in Haryana, India.

1. Overview of disease resistance2. Concept of Disease resistance3. Major diseases of livestock and Poultry and the problems encountered for its control diseases4. Disease resistant traits-analytic tools – Indicator traits

Section 2: Genetics and Genomics for Disease resistance5. Basic concepts of immunogenetics6. Genetics for innate immunity7. Genetics for Humoral immunity8. Immune response genes 9. Techniques to study immune response genes10. Genes conferring immunity against bacterial infections11. Genes conferring immunity against viral infections12. Genes conferring immunity against protozoal infections13. Genes conferring immunity against parasitic infections14. Identified immune response genes pertaining to livestock species15. Advanced Genomic techniques for studying immune response genes16. Strategies for exploiting Immune response genes17. Breeding for disease resistance18. Phenotypic traits for disease resistance19. Selection of Livestock and Poultry for disease resistance20. Heritability, repeatability, genetic correlation for disease resistance traits21. Disease resistance for Cattle and Buffalo22. Disease resistance for goat and sheep23. Disease resistance for pig24. Disease resistance for poultry25. Breeding methodologies for development of disease resistant stock of livestock26. Advanced Breeding Techniques27. Future application for studies on disease resistance