1. Overview of disease resistance 2. Concept of Disease resistance 3. Major diseases of livestock and Poultry and the problems encountered for its control diseases 4. Disease resistant traits-analytic tools - Indicator traits Section 2: Genetics and Genomics for Disease resistance 5. Basic concepts of immunogenetics 6. Genetics for innate immunity 7. Genetics for Humoral immunity 8.

Immune response genes 9. Techniques to study immune response genes 10. Genes conferring immunity against bacterial infections 11. Genes conferring immunity against viral infections 12. Genes conferring immunity against protozoal infections 13. Genes conferring immunity against parasitic infections 14. Identified immune response genes pertaining to livestock species 15. Advanced Genomic techniques for studying immune response genes 16.

Strategies for exploiting Immune response genes 17. Breeding for disease resistance 18. Phenotypic traits for disease resistance 19. Selection of Livestock and Poultry for disease resistance 20. Heritability, repeatability, genetic correlation for disease resistance traits. 21. Disease resistance for Cattle and Buffalo 22. Disease resistance for goat and sheep 23.

Disease resistance for pig 24. Disease resistance for poultry 25. Breeding methodologies for development of disease resistant stock of livestock 26. Advanced Breeding Techniques 27. Future application for studies on disease resistance.