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Introduction to the Lurie Animal Facility

Introduction to the Lurie Animal Facility. Welcome Business Plan Overview of Lurie Facilities Location of your animals Logistics Accessing the animal facility Security and Training Presentation Dates. Agenda. Welcome to Lurie!!.

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Introduction to the Lurie Animal Facility

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  1. Introduction to the Lurie Animal Facility

  2. Welcome • Business Plan • Overview of Lurie Facilities • Location of your animals • Logistics • Accessing the animal facility • Security and Training • Presentation Dates Agenda

  3. Welcome to Lurie!! This page will contain a picture of the Lurie Animal Care Staff

  4. Business Plan • Animals to be moved to Lurie • Ward and Searle Renovations • Window of opportunity while not all of Lurie space is occupied • Survey to identify faculty needs

  5. Lurie Facilities • 67,706 square feet • Two floors: • - Basement: 33,873 square feet • - Sub-basement: 33,833 square feet • State of the art construction/materials/equipment

  6. Basement Facilities • Automated reverse osmosis watering system for animals • Offices, locker rooms, receiving, quarantine, feed room, and necropsy • 34 animal holding rooms • 18 procedure rooms • Transgenic suite- production and housing • Core unit for behavioral phenotypic testing

  7. 28 animal holding rooms • 16 procedure rooms • Cage wash • Tissue digester room • Operating suite • Gamma-cell irradiator • Offices, locker rooms, receiving, quarantine and containment, feed room, and necropsy Sub-Basement Facilities

  8. Location of your animals • Basement- Barrier rodents • Sub-basement: • - Conventional rodents • - Amphibians • - Large animals • - Containment- Biohazard animal housing

  9. Operating Room

  10. Necropsy Room

  11. Soiled Cage Wash

  12. Clean Cage Wash with automatic bedding dispensers

  13. A typical animal room

  14. A typical Procedure Room

  15. Logistics • Sentinels- Environmental testing • Establish a plan based on survey results- research driven • Ordering new animals/new caging • Moving animals- research driven • Decontamination of existing lab spaces to avoid or minimize contamination of Lurie

  16. Accessing the Facility This page will contain information about how to access the animal facility

  17. Security This slide will contain information on the security measures employed in the Lurie animal facility

  18. Training Prior to entering the new Lurie animal facility All research staff must attend Orientation - Tour - Training- new facilities, new equipment, new procedures

  19. Question and Answer Session

  20. Presentation Dates • Tuesday, January 17th at 3pm in the Hughes Auditorium in Lurie • Wednesday, January 25th at 10:30am in the Baldwin Auditorium in Lurie • Monday, January 30th at 1pm in the Hughes Auditorium in Lurie • Friday, February 10th at 1pm in the Hughes Auditorium in Lurie

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