CSIRO Livestock Industries
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CSIRO Livestock Industries provides research solutions to enable Australia’s livestock and allied industries to be globally competitive. CSIRO Livestock Industries is located over five main sites with a number of associated research/field stations
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CSIRO poultry research
CSIRO Livestock Industries has many facilities available for poultry research including Laboratories, specialised equipment and small animal housing. For example, numerous PC2 laboratories are fully equipped for a wide range of work including Virology, Immunology, Diagnostics, Pathology, Cell Culture, and Molecular Biology laboratories. In addition there are smaller specific use rooms for radioisotopes and gel-electrophoresis work as well as centrifuge and cold rooms. All equipment to perform tissue culture and molecular biology experiments is available. This includes CO2 incubators, Biosafety class 2 cabinets, fume hoods, laminar flow hoods, tissue culture microscopes, immunofluorescence microscopes, coulter counter, flow cytometer, high and low speed centrifuges, microfuges, refrigerators, freezers, gel electrophoresis equipment. The laboratories also contain Taqman real time PCR capability, liquid handling robotics system and a new 16 capillary sequencing facility.
Microarray suite
The Australian Facility for Poultry Immunogenomics occupies a large adjacent lab (approximately 100M2) and houses a full microarray suite including robotics, printing and analysis capability. Recently, AAHL acquired a 454 Sequencer, which is one of very few available in Australia. The microbiologically-secure laboratories (PC3 and PC4) contain similar equipment and capabilities.
Animal experimentation
Our small animal facility for endemic research is located close to the PC2 laboratories. We house SPF poultry in 24 flexible positive pressure isolators. We also house rabbit and mice for poly and monoclonal antibody production. This facility is service by a hatchery, post mortem room and autoclaves etc. In the secure area there are numerous negative pressure animal experimentation rooms that are rated at BL3, BL3Z (Zoonotic) and BL4 and are run by trained staff. We also have a large PC2 animal facility located in Werribee that houses up to several hundred chickens under commercial-like conditions
CSIRO poultry research projects
- Genomics-based technology for new health products
- Avian influenza: improved diagnostics for detecting antibodies to H5N1
- Boosting innate immunity
- Diagnostics and surveillance of infectious bronchitis
- RNA interference for genomic studies and therapeutics
- Subunit vaccine against Infectious bursal disease virus
- Vaccine antigens from C. perfringens and C. jejuni
CSIRO people involved with poultry research
- Professor John Lowenthal
- Dr. Rob Moore
- Dr. Tim Doran
- Dr. Sandra Sapats
- Dr. Andrew Bean
- Dr. Mark Ford
- Dr. David Strom
- Dr. Tamsyn Crowley
- Dr. Tracey Hinton
- Dr. Peng Guo
- Dr. Volker Haring
- Dr. Sharon Bishop-Hurley
See Also
External links
- CSIRO Livestock Industries research solutions to enable Australia's livestock and allied industries to be globally competitive.
