The faculty have used these funds to recruit top quality graduate students, post-doctoral associates, and research associates whose presence provide an active environment for scientific interaction. Top Facilities and Research Instrumentation . Excellent facilities and equipment are available to support research and train scientists in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases in animals. Depending on the funding source and the complexity of the equipment, it is either housed in individual faculty laboratories or in centralized laboratory units. Regardless of the location, however, cooperation between programs provides a unique environment in which equipment and facilities are shared between groups.
All equipment is available for graduate students use.
All of the infectious disease research faculty have extensive space and state of the art equipment to conduct modern bio-technical research. Individual laboratories are equipped with all of the routine equipment to conduct experiments in molecular genetics, including specialized equipment like hybridization ovens, transblot equipment, and thermocyclers. Larger, more expensive equipment is available in the various centralized facilities available at the School of Veterinary Medicine. These facilities include Gene Lab, the Microscopy Center, the Cell Culture and Monoclonal Antibody Lab, and the Flow Cytometry Laboratory . Full descriptions of the equipment available in these laboratories is presented in Appendix 12.