2024-05-182024-05-18https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/714850The Department is an integrated, dynamic research, education and extension. Our mission is to provide students with a rigorous and systematic education to effectively respond to challenges facing the sustainable animal production; and become a leading force in the research of biotechnology and management of domestic animals to benefit society. The Department provides undergraduate, Master and Ph. D programs and offers opportunities for our students to work in our animal farms and laboratories, conduct research, and participate in internships. We study production efficiency, physiology, nutrition, processing of animal products, animal welfare, waste management of dairy cattle, sheep, pig and poultry. Our program not only solves animal sciences problems but also secures the food safety and sustainable animal production. The courses in companion animal offer a good opportunity to learn nutrition and behavior for our best friends. Research Feature: Novel Indigenous miniature pig breeds for biomedical researches Pig is an optimal animal for conducting biomedical research in model animals because of their genetic, anatomical and physiological resemblance to humans. In terms of elevating output value of unit pig, to construct the bridge of agriculture and medical science is requisite, especially miniature pigs possess white coat color and skin or harboring fluorescent gene. In contrast to the abundant documents available in rodent, the long lifespan of miniature pigs would suitable for human-related validation of valuable preclinical information.  Miniature Lanyu pig is an indigenous pig breed with remote genetic distance to Asian and European pigs. Miniature Lee-Sung pig derived from Lanyu pig, was established by Professor Sung and Lee in our department, for the purpose of as a laboratory pig breed in 1983. The miniature pigs are extensively be used in variant research fields, including developmental biology, regenerative medicine, xenotransplantation, eye development, angiogenesis, cancer research, reproductive science, bone development, tissue engineering. Lee-Sung miniature pig had been successfully developed various disease models, including diabetes type 1 and 2, hepatitis, anophthalmia and Aniridia. The fluorescent protein-harboring transgenic porcine models are available for preclinical studies. Pig harboring fluorescent gene can serve as a host for other fluorescent-labeled cells in order to study cell microenvironment interactions, and provides optimal fluorescent-labeled cells and tissues for tracking the differentiation cells in developing and regenerative medicine researches. These unique miniature pig models provide new powerful and applicable tools for medical studies in the future.本系為一兼具教學、研究、及推廣等功能之園區。配合國際趨勢及社會發展，本系訂定教育目標為培育具備經濟、實驗及伴侶動物飼養管理能力、熱衷應用科學研究、符合環境及產業需求、兼顧動物與人類福祉之人才。逐年逐步修正課程規劃方向為固守基礎課程，以「乳牛、豬、家禽、伴侶動物、實驗動物」為課程主軸，基礎與應用科學課程為輔助。 特色研究領域：生物醫學研究利用之罕見原生小型豬品種 豬在解剖生理學上與人較相似，因此在所有模式動物中，最適合做為生物醫學研究用途之實驗動物。就提高單位豬隻之產值而言，建構農業與醫藥科學研究之橋樑是必要者，尤其使用白皮膚及毛色或表現螢光基因之小型豬，相較於常用之實驗嚙齒類動物而言，有較長壽命的迷你豬適合作為人類疾病臨床前研究之模式動物，其所獲得之結果將更具臨床應用之參考價值。 蘭嶼豬是臺灣原生小型豬。於1983年，本系李教授及宋教授利用蘭嶼豬育成新品種之李宋迷你豬。目前李宋迷你豬已被廣泛運用在不同生物醫學領域，如發育生物學、再生醫學、器官移植、眼球發育、血管生成、癌症醫學、生殖學、骨骼發育與組織工程。此迷你豬在本系已成功發展出數種人類疾病之豬模式如：第一型糖尿病、肝炎、無眼球與無虹膜缺失等。同時，我們也成功開發帶有不同螢光蛋白的基因轉殖實驗用豬。螢光蛋白的轉殖豬將提供研究細胞與微環境交互作用的一個平台，其表現螢光蛋白的理想標定細胞或組織可以供作未來生醫發育與組織工程研究的細胞發育分化追蹤利器。這些獨特的實驗用迷你豬模式未來將提供人類醫學研究有應用價值之新平台。Academic Institute