Developing Local Poultry for National Food Security

                        Prof. Dr. Ir. Ismoyowati, S.Pt., M.P., IPU was born in Klaten in July 1969. She completed the Bachelor (S1) program of Animal Production at Jenderal Soedirman University, the Master (S2) program of Animal Science at Gadjah Mada University, then continued her education in the Doctoral (S3) program of Animal Science at Gadjah Mada University.

                        Since 1996 Prof. Dr. Ir. Ismoyowati, S.Pt., M.P., IPU has been a permanent lecturer at Jenderal Soedirman University. During her 27 years of dedication at Unsoed, her research focus is genetic improvement of indigenous local poultry, such as local ducks and local chickens. Some of her recent research include: “The Effect of Dietary Safflower Oil (Carthamus Tinctorius. L) and Inositol Supplementation on Biochemical Profile of Blood of Female Sentul Chickens”, “Date Extract Supplementation in Ringer Lactate-Egg Yolk Extender on Post-Thawing Quality of Pelung Chicken Spermatozoa”, “Egg Production, Egg Quality, and Fatty Acid Profile of Indonesian Local Ducks Fed with Turmeric”, and “Developing Strategy to Reduce the Mortality of Native Chicken Using Qualitative Modeling”.

                        In accordance with Prof. Ismoyowati, improving genetic quality is needed to improve the performance of local poultry for both meat and egg production. Currently. Prof. Ismoyowati is creating a strain called Unsoed-1 Chicken, which is a cross between village chicken and Kedu chicken. The advantage of the strain is that it has good immunity to AI (Avian Influenza) and ND (Newcastle Disease) viruses. Pure strains of village chickens have higher egg production than Kedu chickens. Meanwhile, Kedu chickens have a higher egg weight when compared to village chickens. AI and ND are viral diseases in poultry that result in decreased egg production and hatchability.

“The contribution of meat and egg products in Indonesia mostly comes from poultry, but around 70-80% of poultry seeds are still imported from abroad. The role of local poultry is very small. We are trying to develop local poultry to increase the population in order to increase the contribution of poultry meat and egg production,” she said.

In her scientific oration when she was inaugurated as a professor, she brought the theme of genetic diversity of local ducks in Indonesia and its contribution to local food endurance. Prof. Ismoyowati has received many research grants including from the Directorate of Research and Community Service (Direktorat Riset dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat or DRPM) and Unsoed BLU research. Currently, she actively manages the Livestock Bulletin Journal, Agripet Journal, and Tropical Livestock Journal.

Research Profiles

1. Entrepreneurship, Cooperation, and MSMEs
2. Fundamental Science and Fabrication Engineering
3. New and Renewable Energy
4. Tropical Biodiversity and Bioprospection
5. Food, Nutrition, and Health
6. Marine, Coastal, and Inland Area Management
7. Social Engineering and Rural Development

Exploring Animal Taxonomy for Cultivation and Conservation of Freshwater Fish

               Prof. Dr Agus Nuryanto, S.Si.M.Si completed his bachelor’s degree (S.Si.) at Jenderal Soedirman University in 1994, his master’s degree (M.Si) at Bogor Agricultural Institute in 2000, and doctorate at Bogor Agricultural Institute in 2008. During his bachelor’s education, he became an awardee of Ikatan Dinas Scholarship dedicated from the government. Then after undergoing the master’s program, he was covered by the Postgraduate Program Scholarship (Beasiswa Program Pasca Sarjana or BPPS). Afterward, he received a DAAD Sandwich Program Scholarship to University of Bremen (Germany) when he was pursuing his doctorate. Furthermore, he became a lecturer at Unsoed since 1997, Prof. Dr. Agus Nuryanto, S.Si. M.Si. was inaugurated as a professor in the field of Animal Taxonomy at Jenderal Soedirman University on December 8th, 2020.

               Prof. Dr. Agus Nuryanto, S.Si. M.Si. has conducted lots of research. Most of his research focuses on the field of animal taxonomy (systematic) with the object of the research mostly on fish and Crustaceae in the past few years. He proposed that he has had a research interest in fish as the objects since his bachelor education. He chose this focus since his assignment as a lecturer had to be in line with his bachelor program (the scholarship he received required the recipient to become a lecturer). Another reason, he has had a high interest and curiosity in fish since childhood.

               In his scientific oration, Prof. Dr. Agus Nuryanto, S.Si. M.Si conveyed about the general systematics entitled “Revealing Identify, Reaping Benefits”. He stated that his research could help others understand the identity (identification both morphologically and molecularly) of animals so that it could be furtherly utilized in preparing appropriate efforts when carrying out conservation. He connected Covid-19 as a background in his scientific oration because of a similar concept when detecting whether or not someone is positive for covid, it is important to identify RNA (virus). While DNA is for identification in animals. This is highly important to understand the status of species in an organism in order to know how to cultivate and conserve these animals in the future.

               Prof. Dr. Agus Nuryanto, S.Si. M.Si obtained a research grant from Nagao Environmental Foundation (NEF) Japan for research on freshwater fish systematics throughout Java in 2010-2012. Other grants that are often obtained by him are from Directorate of Research & Community Service (Direktorat Riset & Pengabdian Masyarakat or Dikti) since 2018, and from BLU Unsoed since 2010 until now. He has a high initiative and is diligent in publishing his research results both nationally and internationally. He said that every year he always publishes them and has once published five titles in one year. Some of the journal articles were published in Journal of Molluscan Studies, International Journal of Marine Science, Malaysian Applied Biology, Egyptian Journal of Biology and Fisheries, etc.

               Prof. Dr. Agus Nuryanto, S.Si. M.Si is also actively involved as a reviewer for national and international journals. One of the journals managed by him as a managing board is the Indonesian Ictiology journal (Indonesian and English versions). It could not be counted how often he has become a reviewer of articles and journals indexed by Scopus. International articles that have been reviewed by him include Biolnflation and Molecular Ecology. In addition, he has also been trusted to be a thesis examiner for master students at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgia.

Genetic Expertise to Develop Medicinal Plants

            Born in August 1959 in Purwokerto, Prof. Dr. Agus Hery Susanto, M.S. completed his bachelor education (S1) in the Department of Biology at Jenderal Soedirman University in 1983 and master’s degree in 1990 at Padjajaran University with Plant Science as a focus study. Before being named as a professor in 2022, he pursued his doctoral education in the Department of Biology at Jenderal Soedirman University in 2018.

            Prof. Dr. Agus Hery Susanto, M.S.’s research focus is in the field of genetics, especially plant genetics. He said that since becoming a lecturer at Unsoed in 1986, he began to work on various kinds of research in the field of genetics, while his focus was still rather broad, including animals, microbial, fish and plant genetics. Afterward, approximately in 2015, he just began to narrow the focus of research in the field of plant genetics, and approaching his doctoral studies he began researching plant population genetics. Some of his research focuses on examining the population genetics of Catharanthus (tapak dara) as a medicinal plant. In his research, he collaborated with the pharmaceutical sector. While some of his other research collaborated with lecturers from the Faculty of Agriculture Unsoed, especially in the field of plant breeding.

            Prof. Dr. Agus Hery Susanto, M.S. has several books published, some are textbooks and some are teaching books. His textbook entitled Genetics was published by CV. Graha Ilmu in 2011, while his teaching book version of Genetics was published by Unsoed Press as teaching materials for lectures consisting of the materials as well as the questions and answer keys. He also won the Unsoed Award in the field of learning development of genetics lectures in 2015. The National research grants from Ditjen Dikti (Directorate General of Higher Education) that has been achieved by him are competitive and fundamental grants with him as the team leader in 2005. As a researcher as well as inventor in the field of genetics, he has 10 DNA sequence accession numbers that have the potential to be patented. Besides being a researcher, he has also been a reviewer in International journals, such as UNS International Scopus and International MIPA journal, and the editorial board of Biosfera Biology Magazine.