Form for ordering animals
Description of the Animal Colony for Use in Proposals
The Animal Care Facility (ACF) at LBNL will house the mice involved in this research. The ACF is a state-of-the-art facility with a soft-wall design that is easy to modify as research needs change and with filtration design that creates individual clean rooms. This allows a controlled environment that permits continuous visibility of the individual environmental units through freestanding vinyl wall bio-Bubble transparent enclosures. Each bio-Bubble provides a separate enclosure for each specific animal colony, special projects, procedures and quarantine rooms. A total of six bio-Bubbles are designated to hold animals with a total capacity of 3000 cages (current occupancy is at ~1300 cages). One bio-Bubble is set up as the procedure room and is equipped with an isoflurane-anesthesia machine, a CRi Maestro in-vivo fluorescence imaging station, and other basic molecular biology equipment (centrifuge, microscopes, incubator, etc). Another bio-Bubble houses the transgenic production facility. If necessary, mice will be obtained from the Jackson Laboratory, an LBNL-approved source. The LBNL ACF is accredited by AAALAC International, and the animal laboratory staff at the ACF is devoted to full-time care of housed animals.
