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• Handle, examine and treat all species of animals, primarily pets/companion animals.• Care for inpatient animals, including examining and advising on treatment.• Consult with many different owners.• Treat and dress wounds, set fractures, perform surgery, and advise owners about animal feeding, behaviour, and breeding.• Perform routine health status examinations on all animals in the facility.• Perform spay and neuter surgeries for adoptable animals.• Carry out diagnostic tests, such as X-rays, blood samples and ultra-sound.• Supervise and train personnel.

• Extraction, purification, analysis, identification and quantification of antimicrobial residues to monitor potential toxic effects to animal tissue and bovine milk using technologies such as antimicrobial inhibition tests (culture based technologies), mass spectrometry (structural and molecular based technologies)• Evaluation of residual pesticides posing potential toxic effects due to the contamination of dairy products as result of aerial spraying on pasture• Development of methods for the determination and evaluation of toxic residues in animal and plant tissue• Working in collaboration with scientists in multidisciplinary projects associated to toxic residue analysis and evaluation• Method development and validation