Gnotobiotic Animal Facility

The University of Utah is fully accredited by the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) and is committed to maintaining AAALAC accreditation. The germfree animal facility that has just been newly renovated and occupies a total of 1200sq ft. This room is located right next to an autoclave and has restricted access. All chambers have been assembled and sterilized and animals are breeding and maintained germfree. This facility is equipped with two Aria TECH60 Dual BSC/cage change stations,  14 breeder chambers and 16 experimental chambers from CBC, housing 214 cages and 128 cages respectively, and 106 hermetic ISOcages from Tecniplast that allow us to perform “out of the isolator” experiments. We have C57BL/6, Rag1-/-, Swiss Webster, T-MyD88-/-, 129S6/SvEv, IL10-/-, IL17GFP/GFP, and NOD germ-free animals in our facility.  Importantly, we have the capacity and expertise to rederive animals to a germfree state.