Animal & Bioscience Research Department
Facilities
The Animal & Bioscience Research Department has
an extensive range of state of the art laboratory
facilities and technical resources available to all
researchers within the Department.
Genomics & Proteomics
- Illumina GA II & Roche 454 GS
FLX
- Transcriptomics & qPCR
- Chemiluminescence, fluorescence
and radioisotope detection
- Offgel, large-scale 2-D
electrophoresis & Progenesis image
analysis
- FPLC, Nano LC & Mass
Spectrometry
Endocrinology
- Full RIA and ELISA assay suite
- Fluorescent and visible plate
readers
- Gamma counters and data
reduction software
Computational Biology
- High performance 72GB RAM/node
LINUX cluster
- Web and database servers
- Access to ICHEC supercomputers
Animal Models
- Disease susceptibility –
nematodes, TB, mastitis
- Compensatory Growth
- High & Low Fertility
- Feed Efficiency – RFI, methane
- Growth & carcass composition
- Dairy crossbreeding
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Immunology & Infectious Disease
- Automated haematology & clinical
analysis
- Flow cytometry
- ELISA processing
- Tissue culture suite
- Class II containment facilities
- Real-Time cell-assays
Chemical Composition Analysis
- Gas Chromatography – Mass
Spectrometry
- High Performance Liquid
Chromatography
- Gas Chromatography
- Near & Mid Infra-red Reflectance
Spectroscopy
Large Animal Facilities
- Large dairy, beef and sheep
research farms
- Automated animal behaviour
monitoring
- Individual & group feed intake
monitoring
- Milk quality and component
analysis
- Ultrasonography
- Ruminal methane measurement
system
- Continuous culture rumen
simulation system (RUSITEC)
- Tissue biopsy facilities
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The Animal & Bioscience Department also maintains
a comprehensive biobank of DNA, tissue and clinical
samples from both research and commercial herds.
