Type of training: Face‐to‐face course
Organizing center: FBN Leibniz (Germany)
Target participants: Early career researchers, Research Technicians, Master or PhD students
Training objectives:
After the training session, the trainee will be able to:
- Understand the principles of respiration chamber and GreenFeed
- Understand the relationships between methane production, intake and composition of feed
- Sample rumen fluid and analyze selected methane proxies
Pre requisite skills: Advanced PhD students and PostDocs with a Master in Animal Sciences or related fields
Program:
- Visit and introduction to Respiration Chamber and GreenFeed
- Dietary factors influencing methane production
- Host Physiology effects on methane production
- Hands on training of oral rumen fluid sampling
- Methane proxies
- Lab analysis of methane proxies from ruminal fluid: Short‐chain fatty acids using GC‐FID
- Lab analysis: Fecal archaeol extraction and subsequent GC‐MS analysis
Pedagogical approach: Lectures, case study, practical sessions
Trainers: Cornelia Metges, Björn Kuhla, Michael Derno (FBN Leibniz)
Location: Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Germany
Duration: 1.5 days
Dates of course: October 7th (afternoon) and 8th, 2019
>>> Register here by 16th September 2019. <<<
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