Introduction to the Lurie Animal Facility

Agenda• Welcome

• Business Plan

• Overview of Lurie Facilities

• Location of your animals

• Logistics

• Accessing the animal facility

• Security and Training

• Presentation Dates

Welcome to Lurie!!

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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

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

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

Sub-Basement Facilities• 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

Location of your animals

• Basement- Barrier rodents

• Sub-basement:

- Conventional rodents

- Amphibians

- Large animals

- Containment- Biohazard animal housing

Operating Room

Necropsy Room

Soiled Cage Wash

Clean Cage Wash with

automatic bedding

dispensers

A typical animal room

A typical Procedure Room

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

Accessing the Facility

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Security

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Training

Prior to entering the new Lurie animal facility

All research staff must attend

Orientation

- Tour

- Training- new facilities, new equipment, new procedures

Question and Answer Session

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