Department of Animal Science Advantages of Domestic Species As Dual Purpose Models

Because agriculturally important domestic species have enormous value both to biomedicine and agriculture and may be underutilized as biomedical models, this workshop has four objectives:

• To identify specific areas of research in reproduction and developmental biology, developmental origins of disease, metabolism, and infectious disease that could benefit both animal agriculture and biomedicine.
• To advance concept and explain advantages of using agriculturally important domestic species as animal models to investigate each area of research.
• To prioritize the common areas of research in animal agriculture and biomedicine that could be advanced by domestic species as models.
• To consider recommendations from stakeholder scientists for a potential joint USDA-CSREES and NIH effort to advance domestic species as unique models to resolve high priority problems common to both animal agriculture and biomedicine.