Welcome to the 4 PhD Programs of the School of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine

Agripolis Campus, Legnaro 4th November, 2014

Outline

www.agrariamedicinaveterinaria.unipd.it

•  Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals, Environment (DAFNAE)

•  Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science(BCA)

•  Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health (MAPS)

•  Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF)

School of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine

First-cycle Degrees - Undergraduate

Second-cycle Degrees Graduate PhD

Agricultural and Forest Area

-  Agricultural Science

-  Viticulture and Enology

-  Forest and Environment Technology

-  Land and Landscape Restoration

-  Environmental Science

-  Crop Science

-  Land, Environment, Resources and Health

-  Animal and Food Science

-  Veterinary Sciences

Food Area

-  Food Science and Technology

-  Food Biotechnology

Animal Area

- Animal Science and Technology

Food Area

-  Food Science and Technology

-  Gastronomy and Service

-  Food Safety

Animal Area

-  Animal Science and Technology

Agricultural and Forest Area

-  Agricultural Science

-  Forest and Environmental Science

-  Forest science (English)

-  Land and Environment Science

Veterinary Medicine

Susanne Klöhn

Erasmus Office “Agripolis”

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE

The campus “Agripolis”

•  Faculty of Agriculture (established in 1946) •  Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (established in 1994) •  Closed at the end of 2011 •  New School of Agricultural Science and Veterinary

Medicine •  4 Departments:

–  Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment Dipartimento di Agronomia Animali Alimenti Risorse Naturali e Ambiente - DAFNAE

–  Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health Dipartimento di Medicina Animale, Produzioni e Salute – MAPS

–  Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry Dipartimento di Territorio e Sistemi Agro-forestali – TESAF

–  Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science Dipartimento di Biomedicina Comparata ed Alimentazione - BCA

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•  Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment - DAFNAE

•  Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health - MAPS

•  Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry

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•  Main lecture room (Aula magna) •  Lecture rooms •  Laboratories and Study rooms •  Wireless internet •  Computer Labs •  Library

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Erasmus+ and other •  Erasmus+ studio

–  For internships inside universities with Erasmus agreement –  Call in January for a.y. 2015/2016 –  Scholarship 230-280 Euro/ month

•  Erasmus+ for placement/ tirocinio –  Call for 2014/2015 –  Ufficio stage e carriere service –  For internships in other public or private institutions, universities without

Erasmus agreement

–  “Internship” without scholarship

! “Erasmus Day” on 21 november 2014, 12.00 Aula magna

Erasmus+ and other

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Maggiori informazioni

Ufficio Erasmus Agripolis Susanne Kloehn

tel. 049 827.2538 fax 049 827.2529 e-mail: erasmus.agripolis@unipd.it

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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 9.30 – 12.30

Martedì, Mercoledì, Giovedì: 9.30 – 12.30

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The 4 PhD Programs

The 4 PhD Programs

•  Animal and Food Science Coordinator: Stefano Schiavon Web site: http://147.162.137.246/dottorato/index_en.html

•  Crop Science Coordinator: Antonio Berti Web site: www.sciproveg.com/eng

•  Land, Environment, Resources and Health Coordinator: Davide Pettenella Web site: http://www.tesaf.unipd.it/en/research/doctoral-degrees-phd-programmes

•  Veterinary Sciences Coordinator: Gianfranco Gabai Web site: www.dottorato.veterinaria.unipd.it/index.php?lang=en

The Animal and Food Science PhD Program

Research topics: •  Animal Science

–  Husbandry, feeding, conservation and genetic improvement of animal populations

–  Animal feeding and nutrition –  Quality of animal products and food safety

•  Food Science –  Food quality, traceability and safety –  Food technology and enzymology –  Wine, alcoholic beverages and distillates technology and quality –  Novel and functional foods –  Food service and food industry by products

The Crop Science PhD Program

Research topics: •  Plant genetics, genomics and proteomics •  Dynamics of epigenetic states •  Genetic improvement of traits influencing yield •  Resistance to biotic and abiotic stress •  Alteration of plant architecture and control of flowering •  Genetic determinants of apomixis •  Plant-environment interaction •  Interactions between crop production and agronomic techniques; crop rotation •  Potential productivity and soil fertility; root systems and microbial symbionts •  Ecophysiology and productivity of agricultural and forest plants •  Biochemical, physiological and molecular responses of plants to pathogens •  Insect-plant relationships in agricultural and forest ecosystems •  Plant protection from pests and diseases •  Ecological and molecular analysis of pest and disease populations •  Regulation of fruit development and ripening •  Fruit post-harvest physiology; fruit allergenicity •  Molecular basis of fruitlet abscission

The Land, Environment, Resources and Health (LERH)

PhD Program Research topics •  Forest pathology and ectomycorrhizal dynamics •  Carbon balance of forest ecosystems •  Landscape ecology •  Forest hydrology, water cycle, GIS and Geomatic •  Soil, water and air pollution •  Wetlands, constructed wetland and phytodepuration facilities •  Silviculture and forest management •  Technologies and machineries in agriculture and forestry •  Water and fertilization management with precision agriculture •  Forest bioenergy •  Agrifood sector competitiveness •  Enology •  Food quality •  European agricultural policy and European rural development •  Marketing of agrifood and forest products •  Forest governance

The Veterinary Sciences PhD Program

Research topics

•  Veterinary basic sciences (molecular and cell biology, microbiology, anatomy, physiology and endocrinology, zoology, pathology, animal behaviour & welfare, bioethics)

•  Veterinary epidemiology, hygiene and public health (including molecular epidemiology and advanced diagnosis)

•  Food safety

•  Animal diseases

•  Animal models to study spontaneous and experimental human diseases

The 4 PhD Programs http://agrariamedicinaveterinaria.unipd.it/en/

Who are the main actors?

"   Introduce briefly yourselves: "  Where do you come from "  Your background "  Your PhD program

"  Your future research topic

You!

Your rights and duties

Your rights "   You have the right to carry on independent, supervised advanced

research; you have a supervisor for your thesis work and two revisers from the PhD program

"   You have the right to a working position with full access to the research facilities

"   You are strongly recommended to have an experience abroad (3 months minimum - a right but also a duty!), normally starting from the 2nd year; for your staying abroad you have a (limited) extra compensation

"   You can access all the services ordinary provided to the UNIPD students (housing and canteen, sport facilities, health care, psychological support, ombudsman, …)

www.unipd.it/en/

On-line resources

Your rights "   You have the right to carry on independent, supervised advanced

research; you have a supervisor for your thesis work and two revisers from the PhD program

"   You have the right to a working position with full access to the research facilities

"   You are strongly recommended to have an experience abroad (3 months minimum - a right but also a duty!), normally starting from the 2nd year; for your staying abroad you have a (limited) extra compensation

"   You can access all the services ordinary provided to the UNIPD students (housing and canteen, sport facilities, health care, psychological support, ombudsman, …)

"   Beside the grant, you have some research funds to be spent in the 2nd and 3rd year (at least 10% of the grant have been allocated)

How to use the funds

1 Partecipation to congresses

The student has to present some research results

Authorized by the Coordinator

2 Partecipation to seminars and workshops

Travel costs and accommodation (outside Padova)

Authorized by the Coordinator

3 Field data collection

When PhD grants are paid by external organizations, a limited extra contribution by the PhD Council can be given

Authorized by the Coordinator

4 Courses, workshops, stages

Cost reimbursement decided on case to case basis by the PhD Council

Authorized by the PhD Council (also on line)

5 Staying abroad Travel costs and accommodation Authorized by the PhD Council (also on line)

6 Others E.g.: courses or workshop organization, books, equipment, …

Authorized by the PhD Council (also on line)

•  External activities: fill out the travel form and give it to the secretary office of the Department before each external activity: mandatory for insurance and to have your money back!

•  Department cars: fill out the authorisation form that will be valid until you are in the PhD Course; each time you need to use a car, it has to be requested by your supervisor

•  If the Department’s cars are not available you can use your own car (authorisation required)

•  If an external activity has to be refunded on PhD Program funds you must attach a request signed by your supervisor; if it has to be paid on supervisor’s research funds your request form must indicate which fund has to be charged

•  Experiences abroad: until 6 months of staying you need an authorisation by the coordinator, for more than 6 months the request form must be presented to the Program Council; the request should be presented before you leave Padova (3 months in advance), attaching a request letter by the supervisor and the letter of acceptance by the foreign institution (http://www.unipd.it/node/8608 - still in Italian… Sorry!)

Your duties "   Your main duty is to produce good pieces of scientific

research in the field of science you have agreed with your supervisor and that has been approved by the PhD Program

"   You will work full time at the Program. Your physical presence at the university in requested

"   You must remain at the academic siege at each stage of your Learning program in the 1st year

"   You have to prove your scientific productivity updating your profile in the web site U-GOV.

An individual working plan for the 3 years, agreed with your supervisor, has to be presented and formally approved by the PhD Council; you will receive a request in 2-3 months time.

The plan will describe: a. Your research project b. Your individual learning program

A template will be available The learning program is based on 3 type of activities !

PhD program procedures: first step

Learning activities

"  Compulsory courses of the 1st year

"  Courses defined on a voluntary basis and agreed with your supervisor

"  Internal seminars, workshops, conferences, …

A final assessment of your learning level will be requested

Your 3-years learning and research program should be approved by your PhD Council

Compulsory courses of the 1st year (1/2)

Course “Choose, design, write and present PhD research projects and results” 16 hours; 2.5 ECTS 1-3 December, 2014 Teachers: Davide Pettenella; Edi Defrancesco; Laura Secco and Alessandro Leonardi Department – Legnaro PD - AGRIPOLIS Course “Applied Statistics: use of R software” 24 hours; 3 ECTS 23-27 February, 2015 Teacher: Matteo Dainese Pentagono – Computer room Course “Scientific Writing in English” 24 hours; 3 ECTS Spring 2015 Teacher: Mark E. Olson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico Department TESAF – Room 2040, 2° Floor – Legnaro PD – AGRIPOLIS

Compulsory courses of the 1st year (2/2)

Bibliographic research, data bank sources and references ? ECTS Spring 2015 Teacher: from the Arduino Library Agripolis Course “Ethics and Science” 24 hours; 1.5 (Introduction) + 1.5 (Monographic lectures) = 3 ECTS Spring 2015 Teacher: Barbara de Mori Agripolis Course “English” FULL placement test + Course “English – B1” or Course “English – B2” 30 hours; 4 ECTS To be defined Teacher: CLA

Admission procedures "   At the end of each year of the Program you have to

present a Report (approved by your supervisor) to the Council. In the Report you are asked to give evidence of: "   Your learning activities (only at the end of the 1st year) "   Your research advancement "   Al other relevant information about your work: publications,

papers and posters presented to congress, participation to scientific events, …

"   You will be asked to make an oral presentation of your annual work to the Program Council that will decide about your admission to the following year or to the final examination

Don’t give for granted your admission to the 2nd and 3rd year!

Admission procedure to the final exam

"   The structure of the thesis can be agreed with the supervisor and the Council (monograph, set of papers with an introduction to frame your work)

"   Your PhD Program Council may define special requirements, e.g. at least one publication in a peer review (international) journal

"   You will have to present your thesis approved by the supervisor and checked by two internal reviewers (i.e. members of the Council)

"   The PhD Council will give an assessment of the thesis that finally will be peer reviewed by an external commission

"  You are allowed to request a prolongation of your research activities of the 3rd year of 6 months

"  No grant will be provided for the prolongation period

"  The request of prolongation can be done for max 2 times (max. prolongation: 1 year)

"  Maternity leave are of course allowed

Your future expected skills

Source: EU - Directorate General for Research & Innovation. Report of Mapping Exercise on Doctoral Training in Europe "Towards a common approach”. 27th June 2011

Transferable skills (ensure that researchers have the skills demanded by the knowledge based economy):

•  learned in one context (for example research) & useful in another (for example future employment)

•  enable subject- and research-related skills to be applied and developed effectively

Examples: communication, teamwork, entrepreneurship, project management, ethics, standardisation etc.

A recommendation:

“Change mentality” (metanoèite; Mt 4,17): •  be pro-active •  develop new ideas, new approaches •  build your network •  … “Imagination is power” An example: “Dance your PhD” competition by the journal Science (video – 5 min.)

Your future: Interaction with the work environment

www.unipd.it/en/interaction-work-environment-0

http://www.unipd.it/en/research/results-research/spin-offs

One option for your future: start up a spin off

Spin-off

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Spin off: some examples

Spin-off

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Spin off: some exampes

Final wish to you as a PhD student in Padova

“REDIBO PLENIOR”

“I shall come back richer, more mature” motto by G.V. Pinelli, second half of XVI Century