Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory
The central facility of the Aquatic Toxicology and Transgenics Facilities and Services Core is the Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory (SARL), a unique national and international resource. The SARL supports two animal models for researchers, rainbow trout and zebrafish.
Why do researchers use animal models, and what does a fish experiment have to do with human health? Learn more at the Unsolved Mysteries of Human Health.
The SARL has a large self-contained rainbow trout hatchery that is equipped to maintain and propagate Shasta strain rainbow trout, incubate and hatch artificially spawned eggs, and rear fry to varying experimental endpoints.
The zebrafish area is equipped to rear up to 10,000 experimental zebrafish in addition to brood stock. The core facility serves a number of Center investigators by providing essential services. For example, investigators are provided study design assistance, research animals, tank space, complete fish husbandry services, standard and custom diets, and experimental data collection assistance. These services are also provided to researchers at OSU, other US institutions or with international research groups to support, small pilot projects as space and resources are available.
Take a look at what is going on inside of SARL!
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Sheila Cleveland is using a microtome to cut thin slices of fixed tissue which will be mounted on a microscope slide. |
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Sheila puts the thin slices of fixed tissue in water. The tissue floats. This is an effective way to handle this delicate material. The best tissue samples are separated and mounted on slides. |
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There are many rows of zebrafish in mounted tanks. These tanks allow for efficient ue of space. The tanks are back-lighted.
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Dr. Robert Tanguay holds one of the tanks from the rack system (seen in background) to check the health of the zebrafish within.
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Eric Johnson checks the status of the computer controlled water processing system used to supply the zebrafish racks. |
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Eric Johnson has the net ready to capture one of the Rainbow trout brood-stock. |
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Cari Buchner tends to a trough of Rainbow trout fry which were produced by the hatchery at the SARL lab. |
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Cari Buchner feeds one of the experimental tanks of Rainbow trout. The yellow diet, seen in the cup, is a semi-purified diet developed at OSU. |
water processing equipment for the Rainbow trout.
