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