Tags: biotechnology

ILRI News on biotechnology

02 Oct 2019

Enlarging on the EAT-Lancet planetary diet report—A fresh look by CSIRO’s Mario Herrero, one of the authors

Mario Herrero, a scientist formerly with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and now serving as chief research scientist of agriculture and food at Australia’s Commonwealth, Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), recently gave a seminar at the University of...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

ILRI clippings

08 Apr 2019

Overuse and misuse of antibiotics – a problem driven by the world’s poor and rich alike

Kibera slum alley (photo via Flickr/Ninara) As reported this week by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel in the New York Times , ‘Kibera residents are prodigious consumers of antibiotics’. Kibera area, one of Africa’s largest urban slums, is located in Nairobi, Kenya, with a population of around one...

Ekta Patel Communications Manager - Biosciences

ILRI clippings

15 Mar 2019

Drug resistance could make millions of people poorer

Jimmy Smith (right) and Ochieng’ Ogodo (SciDev.net). A CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub to help integrate and channel research and development efforts in tackling antimicrobial resistance was launched at ILRI Nairobi, Kenya, 21-22 February 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). As reported this...

Ekta Patel Communications Manager - Biosciences

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Publications on biotechnology

Journal Article

Published2019

The role of public research agencies in building agri-food bioscience impact and innovation capacity in sub-Saharan Africa: The challenge beyond science capability

Journal Article

Published2019

Metagenomics analysis of cocoa bean fermentation microbiome identifying species diversity and putative functional capabilities

News Item

Published2019

The next generation of African women scientists are honing their skills at BecA-ILRI Hub

News Item

Published2019

ILRI’s BecA-Hub is using cutting-edge science to help Africa achieve food and nutrition security

Journal Article

Published2019

iMAP: An integrated bioinformatics and visualization pipeline for microbiome data analysis

Poster

Published2018

Accelerating Africa’s agricultural development through biosciences

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ILRI Projects on biotechnology

Active

Jan 2011Dec 2013

Comparative genome sequence analysis to identify disease and traits related genes under different selection pressures during chicken domestication

Objectives: • To identify candidate genes associated with disease resistance and economic traits through an analysis of signature of selection (SOS) between Asian and African lineage poultry. • To conduct statistical modeling of marker-assisted gene introgression (MAI) based on disease...

Active

Jan 2010Dec 2012

Production of disease tolerant cloned cattle in Africa

Objectives: 1. To reproduce herd through reproductive technique on cattle with disease tolerance in Africa 2. To maximize livestock production through establishment of embryo production with disease tolerance 3. To secure genetic diversity according to production of cloned animal with disease...

Active

Jul 2011Jul 2013

Characterization of Theileria parva specific cytotoxic T. cells

Objectives: The overall objective of the project is to generate a profile of the specific CD8 cells, generated towards T. parva regarding cytokine expression, surface activation markers and memory markers from cattle immunized with the live vaccine. This profile can be used as a guideline for what...

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