CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), Northern Ireland, paving the way for research-level collaboration between the institutes. According to a statement issued by TANUVAS, AFBI was started in 2006 as an amalgamation of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) Science Service and the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland (ARINI). Considered to be one of the leading institutions in the world in animal diagnostics, the institute in Ireland possessed facilities including modern scientific laboratories with equipment such as sophisticated electron microscopes. The institute was also a leader in techniques like high pressure processing, sensory evaluation of foods, dredge monitoring and seabed habitat mapping.Officials said that the collaboration would ensure smooth transfer of technology and knowledge in animal health research. It would facilitate the exchange of faculty and students to enable the sharing of expertise for the mutual benefit of the two countries. Some of the areas in which collaborative research would be undertaken included molecular mapping of emerging poultry diseases, avian nephritis, diagnosis and survey of avian viruses, diagnostics for tuberculosis, leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis. Such research will largely benefit the vast majority of the livestock dependent populations of both countries, officials said.
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