Tags: biotechnology

ILRI News on biotechnology

24 Jun 2021

Former ABCF fellow’s research is conserving and improving indigenous goats in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Livestock farming is an important source of income in rural households in African countries. Goats, which were one of the first animals to be domesticated in the continent, are especially important in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where they are kept by 75% of the rural population and...

Mwihaki MundiaCommunications Officer - BecA

ILRI News

20 Oct 2020

Excursions of a biochemical kind: ILRI hosts CUNY–Regeneron ‘power couple’ working to improve the health of African cattle and COVID-19 patients

Written by Susan MacMillan and Ekta Patel ILRI’s cloned Boran bull named ‘Tumaini’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) . Part 1 For two months at the start of this year, Jayne Raper, a professor of biological sciences at the City University of New York’s Hunter College (CUNY), in Manhattan, took a...

ILRI News

15 Oct 2020

Remembering Michael Blümmel

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Michael Blümmel , a principal scientist and deputy program leader in the feed and forage development program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Michael passed away on Monday, 12 Oct 2020, after a short illness in his...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

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Publications on biotechnology

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

Journal Article

Published2017

Molecular genetic diversity and population structure of Ethiopian white lupin landraces: Implications for breeding and conservation

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ILRI Projects on biotechnology

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...

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...

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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