Ain Shams Center of
Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology
About Animal Molecular Genetic Lab:
Animal genetic resources are the essential force for livestock development, along with animal health, modern feeding programs, and advanced breeding programs. It is based on the characterization of animals, conservation, and support of genetic improvement processes for modern breeding programs. Animal genetic resources provide genetic information that helps strongly in supporting the sustainable development of the livestock sector to increase the production capacity to the highest level to bridge the food gap from diversified animal production, produce new breeds capable of facing and adapting to continuous climate changes, producing modern breeds and hybrids capable of resistance The spread and emerging diseases, as well as the study of obtaining animal breeds with high nutritional transformation efficiency to meet the challenges and consequences of shrinking the agricultural area resulting from human intervention or climatic changes and the lack of water resources, which made there is competition between the human element and animals in cultivating the requirements of each of them on this agricultural area Available to all, which led to a shortage of produced fodder and exacerbated problems and changing market requirements.
Therefore, the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry of Animal Genetic Resources was established to contribute to the study,development, and consolidation
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of animal genetics in the development, development, and preservation of livestock, based on molecular genetics and biochemistry, which aims to: Study the flow of genetic information within the biological system at the molecular level through Study of the structure and function of genes, study of expression and regulation of gene expression, study of important biological processes and pathways affecting the necessary biological functions, the study of the animal genome and its link to genetic disorders that result in mutations or genetic changes benign or benign. To properly understand the animal model to maximize the productive benefit.
Lab Vision
The Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry of Animal Resources is a distinguished and specialized laboratory for researching animal genetic sources, as well as for training and conducting scientific research related to animal genetics.
Lab Mission
The lab contributes to advancing scientific research and harnessing it in the service and development of society, by adapting molecular genetics and biochemistry techniques for animal sources to help provide solutions to the problems and challenges facing the agricultural animal sector, increase different production rates, raise their efficiency, preserve the genetic diversity of animal resources, and improve breeding programs animal.
Lab Services
1. Providing consultations and scientific expertise to all academics, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students from within the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, all departments of the Faculty of Agriculture, all faculties of Ain Shams University, and other universities, colleges, institutes and other research centers with common research and scientific interests.
2 . Availability of equipment, materials, laboratory tools, and chemicals to conduct the necessary research, experiments, and genetic analyzes.
3 . Assisting, implementing, and presenting research projects to various funding bodies.
4 . Assistance and implementation in conducting genetic experiments and analyzes.
5 . Providing training courses and workshops that serve the educational process and students of scientific research.
6 . allowing hiring lab hours to start and end experiments for researchers and students of scientific research.
7 . The laboratory seeks to hold corporate protocols and cooperation between it and the various laboratories within the Faculty of Agriculture and Ain Shams University, as well as other local and international research laboratories, as well as various funding bodies for applied research projects to improve the educational and research level.
Education Goals
1. Improving the educational and research process and effective participation in community service and development.
2 . Organizing training courses and workshops for the use of basic equipment in the laboratory.
3 . Organizing training courses and workshops to apply different genetic techniques to different animal models.
4 . Organizing training sessions to extract and isolate DNA, RNA, and protein from different animal models.
5 . Organizing training courses for polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
6 . Organizing training courses and workshops to diagnose various diseases using RT-PCR.
7 . Organizing training courses and workshops to study, isolate and identify the genes controlling the traits of increased meat and dairy production and fertility in the case of large and small ruminants, as well as in the economic productive traits in poultry (meat, eggs, heat stress, resistance diseases (.
8 . Organizing training courses and workshops in the conservation of genetic assets and genetic variation at the animal level.
Research projects in which the lab participated
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"Genotyping of Camels (Camelus dromedarius) Trypanosomiasis in Egypt" Egyptian-Czech research projects-2018 founded by Science and Technology Development Fund "STDF three years.
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“Improved Production of Some Important Anti-Cancer Active Ingredients from Medicinal Plants by Modern Biotechnology" Funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt (2006-2009).
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“Molecular genetic Approach to detect Inter-Species Meat Adulteration” Funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt (2006-2009).
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“Microarray profile Differentially Expressed genes in Bronchail Asthma” Funded by Misr University for Science and Technology (2006-2007).
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“Molecular Genetic Characterization and Identification of Camel Herds in Egypt” Funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt (2004-2007).
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ASRT-230 (Genetic Diversity of Indigenous Breeds of Sheep & Goat) Funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt (1998- 2001).