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UAPB Fish Health Services:
UAPB Disease Labs
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Facilities and Equipment
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| The UAPB Fish Disease Diagnostic Program has four
laboratories located in regions of Arkansas where concentrations of fish
farming exist. There are three field diagnostic labs (Newport, Lonoke,
Lake Village) and a main laboratory on the UAPB campus. The field
laboratories are all staffed by MS and Ph.D. level diagnosticians and BS
trained technicians that have all the equipment necessary to collect and
analyze samples of water and necropsy fish for the diagnosis of infectious
diseases. The main laboratory at UAPB has the same diagnostic capabilities
but is also equipped for molecular biology and diagnostic PCR,
histopathology, virology, and a suite of analytical and preparative
instruments for research. The UAPB facility is also equipped with
aquariums. The facilities and equipment available in the UAPB Fish Disease
Laboratory are listed below.
Virology
- Envirco laminar flow tissue culture hoods (2)
- Fisher Scientific low temperature incubators (2)
- Precision Scientific low temperature incubator
- Precision carbon dioxide incubator
- Olympus inverted tissue culture microscope
- Nanopure ultrapure water system
- Dewar for cell line storage (40 l)
- Seward Stomacher 80 Homogenizer
Histology
- Miles Scientific VIP 4622 tissue processor
- Miles Scientific Tissue-Tek embedding console
- Surgipath microtome
- Shandon Linistain slide stainer with dedicated fume hood
- Electric slide warmer
- MDC Quick Dry slide drier
- TBS Flotation Bath Station
Spectrophotometers
- Molecular Devices Vmax kinetic microplate reader with Vmax software
and pentium computer
- Milton Roy Spectronic 1001 UV/Vis spectrophotometer
Microscopy
- Leica Diastar Microscope
- Leica dissecting microscope
- Olympus BX-50, 5-viewer research photomicroscope with fluorescence.
(The scope is equipped with digital and film cameras and is attached
to a pentium computer so that digital pictures can be shared locally
and through the Internet).
Electrophoresis and Molecular Biology
- Sigma electrophoresis power supply
- Sigma vertical gel electrophoresis apparatus
- Sigma wet blot transfer apparatus
- Fisher UV/vis transilluminator
- Polaroid electrophoresis documentation system
- Fisher DNA hybridization oven
- Promega horizontal gel electrophoresis unit
- Sigma large format horizontal electrophoresis apparatus
- Dot blot apparatus
- DNA Engine PCR machine
Assorted
- Curtis Matheson Scientific Equatherm bacteria incubator
- Boekel Industries bacteria incubator
- Precision Scientific oven
- Lab Line orbital incubating shaker
- Tuttnauer 2540E autoclave
- Fisher Marathon 64 Centrifuge
- Beckman Preparative ultracentrifuge (90,000 rpm) with swinging
bucket and near-vertical rotors
- Cole Parmer Microcentrifuge
- Eppendorph refrigerated microcentrifuge
- IEC Hematocrit Centrifuge
- Bellco platform rocker
- Refrigerators and freezers (3)
- Ainsworth microbalance
- Magnetic stir hot plates (4)
- Corning 220 pH meter
- Peristalic pumps (5)
- Fisher Sonicator
- Pit Tag Reader
- Digital dissolved oxygen meter
Wet Lab Equipment
- Flow-through 10-15 gallon aquariums with drains, inlets, and air
(105)
- Carbon filtered city water supply with water heaters, chillers, and
a mixing valves.
- UV filters to sterilize aquarium effluents
- Aquatic Ecosystems 1/3 hp air blowers (2)
- Water quality tests kits for all conceivable needs
- Assorted nets and fish handling equipment
- Rack of sixty 2.7 l tanks for toxicology.
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Page last updated
on October 29, 2004
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