Preconference workshop on;
1. Animal handling
by Dr. Abdussamad Muhammad Abdussamad,
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry,
Bayero University, Kano.
-The Laboratory Animal
-Biomethodology of Rodents I: The Rat
-Biomethodology of Rodents II: The Mouse
-Handling and restraint techniques.
-Health check, sexing and body weight determination.
-Routes of administration.
-Blood sampling.
-Pain assessment.
2. Bioinformatics
by Dr. Nasir Abdullahi,
Department of Biochemistry,
Bayero University, Kano.
-Introduction to bioinformatics
-Online database search (OMIM, NCBI)
-Sequence analysis
-Introduction to online primer design and evaluation
-Homology modelling
-Phylogenetic tree construction