Life Sciences Division
1997-98
Progress Report
- Overview
- Mission
- Structure
- Lab Animal Resources
- Operations & Support
- Mouse Genetics Research
- DNA Sequencing Lab
- Gene Expression Chip Lab
- Dosimetry & Biokinetic
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Environmental Assessment
- Biological Sciences
- Functional Genomics & Proteomics
- Structural Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Technology Applications
Laboratory Animal Resources Section
Staff
|
C. J. Foltz |
Animal Care Technicians
|
R. E. Andrews, Jr. |
C. J. Garner |
E. P. Leinart |
J. W. Sharp1 |
1Retired or terminated employment with Life Sciences Division in 1997 or 1998
The section is dedicated to maintaining the highest standard of animal care and welfare, ensuring the best quality of animals for research activities and support of divisional research initiatives utilizing animals. The animal resource program is responsible for ensuring continued accreditation by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International, compliance with federal regulations of the Animal Welfare Act and the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and maintaining standards in accordance with the National Research Council's "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals." Efforts provided by the section support care for the large experimental mouse colony utilized by the Mammalian Genetics and Development Section as well as animals utilized by the Assessment Technology and the Biochemistry and Biophysics Sections. The section is headed by a veterinarian who is a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. Support staff includes a supervisor and 19 full-time bargaining unit animal care technicians. The section provides husbandry requirements for approximately 70,000 laboratory mice and a minimal number of rats and oversees maintenance of the animal facilities' physical plant and equipment to assure provision of acceptable operations standards. In addition, veterinary care is provided to ensure the health and well-being of the division's research animals. Research support is provided through training and guidance of animal care technicians and investigative staff in the care and use of research animals procedures for proper performance of surgery, anesthesia, analgesia, and related non-surgical procedures, and protocol development. Research is additionally supported through cooperative efforts with investigative staff to recognize and characterize phenotypic expression of genetic mutations.