Infrastructure
- PC1, PC2 and PC3 holding
- Digital ventilated caging (DVC)
- Behavioural spaces
- Reverse light cycle spaces
- Surgical spaces with anaesthesia machines
- Holding rooms for projects working with hazardous agents
- Varied microbiological exclusion conditions, inlcuding open to germ-free
- Housing including static micro isolators, open-top, EVC and IVC technologies
Standard capability
- Providing holding facilities and a standard level of husbandry for day-to-day-care of research animals .
Technology supports behind the scenes processes
Facilities designed for large scale holding
Colony management capabilities
- Expert colony management for genetically modified rodents
- Provision of time mated rodent on-site
- Animal purchases from UQBR or commercial colonies
Research project capabilities
- Animal purchases from UQBR or commercial colonies
- Animal monitoring as a research activitiy
- Veterinarian services, including research participation for veterinary activities
- Technical assistance on approved research projects to perform procedures
- Import and export including international of animals supporting release compliance
Advanced reproductive technique capabilities
- Advanced reproductive techniques including IVF and Ovary transplantation
- Rederivation services, to “clean” and move animals from one facility/institution to another
- Cryopreservation services, for reproductive tissue (embryos, sperm, ovaries)
- Genetic modification services for established techniques such as microinjection and electroporation, and CRISPR/Cas9
