Facility Upgrade

In 2006, the Facility began a major upgrade, which included:

• The purchase and installation of 3 stand-alone units and 1 bench top unit (established as a secondary nursery) from Aquatic Habitats.
• An additional photoperiod unit in the original facility room (tripling embryo production of the old facility room)
• The completion of a second facility room to house the second fish colony (opened for user access in March 2007)

In 2007, the Facility continued the upgrade with:

• Opening of the expanded second facility room
• All light cycle systems are operational and are running at full capacity, the total Facility brood stock is now ~4,500 fish (5 x the original output capability)
• Upgraded Facility website, allowing online access to brood stock booking,  and Facility promotion through general browsing (Launched March 20, 2008)
• Beginning the development of a new Live Stock Storage Facility (Waite Campus)

  In 2008:

• OTGR certified Live Stock Storage Facility (Waite campus), acting as a second storage location for vital stock lines
• Converting old digital imaging room into a micro injection room
• Launched cost recovery "Pay for Service" system
• Applied to become an AIB Lab

Continuing in 2009:

• Introduction of a Techniplast ZebTec MiniZeb system
• Introduction of a Facility database documenting all fish populations within the Facility
• Further developing website to include Facility database search for users, List of In situ Hybridization Probes, file sharing capabilities.