As the SJDAWC is an integral part of a veterinary school, there is a wide range of expertise and resources available for animal welfare research.
Full details can be found on the Atlantic Veterinary College website.
The following are some examples of the expertise, resources and facilities available for animal welfare research:
Behaviour and Physiology
Department of Biomedical Sciences
- Animal Behaviour and Welfare
- Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Cell Biology and Immunology
- Neuroscience
- Endocrinology
Atlantic Centre for Comparative Biomedical Research
- laboratories with specialized research suites and access to facilities and equipment for inter-disciplinary comparative biomedical research
- Bacteriology
- Clinical Pathology
- Electron Microscopy
- Endocrinology
- Histopathology
- Necropsy
- Parasitology
- Toxicology
- Virology
Epidemiology
Centre for Veterinary Epidemiological Research
- animal health epidemiological research and biostatistics
Veterinary Clinical Welfare
- veterinary services for both large and small animals
Department of Companion Animals
- Small-animal medicine, and surgery
- Anesthesia
- Radiology
- Ophthalmology
- Cardiology
Department of Health Management
- Animal welfare
- Animal production systems
- Large-animal internal medicine and surgery
- Theriogenology
- Population health
- Epidemiology
- Regulatory medicine
- Veterinary public health
- Biostatistics
- Farm service to equine, dairy, beef, swine, and fish farms
Department of Pathology and Microbiology
- Anatomic pathology
- Clinical pathology
- Bacteriology
- Immunology
- Parasitology
- Virology
- Molecular biology
Areas of expertise in specific types of animalsĀ
- Companion animals
- Horses
- Swine
- Atlantic Swine Research Partnership
- Dairy cattle
- Wildlife
- Aquaculture and Fisheries
- AVC Lobster Science Centre
- Centre for Aquatic Health Services