Center for Integrated BioSystems

The Center for Integrated BioSystems was created in 1986 as a Center of Excellence for the State of Utah to promote biotechnology education and research, and to support technology development and transfer. Education and Outreach programs provide training and technical information for researchers, government agencies, Extension agents, and educators. Service laboratories provide essential products and services to support biotechnology research, and include DNA and protein synthesis and sequencing and antibody production. The Center houses modern research laboratories for faculty and their students from a variety of academic disciplines. Among these faculty are members of the ADVS Department who have expertise in animal molecular genetics, viral disease diagnostics, reproductive physiology and embryo cloning.

Equipment in the ADVS laboratories includes centrifuges, water baths, tissue culture and bacterial incubators, electrophoresis gel systems, power supplies, thermal cyclers, a pulse field gel apparatus, an X-ray developer, a transilluminator with camera, ultra cold freezers, microinjection instruments coupled to a Nikon inverted microscope with phase contrast and Hoffman optics, and equipment required for forging glass microtools. The Center for Integrated BioSystems has a completely equipped dark room and several tissue culture rooms available to ADVS personnel. Also included in the Center are animal holding rooms which serve as an extension to the Laboratory Animal Research Center (LARC). This building is located behind the Agriculture Science building and next to the Biology and Natural Resources Building.