Facilities

Animal Care

The St. Francis Xavier University Animal Care Facility is a CCAC certified facility of GAP - Good Animal Practice®. The facility encompasses 2250 square feet and includes two insect rooms, cleaning rooms, an office, a store room, three small-animal holding rooms, a zebrafish room, three walk-in environmental chambers, and a large aquatic room. This facility can hold a wide collection of species from small rodents to amphibians, reptiles and many species of fish and invertebrates. Most investigators work with zebrafish or aquatic invertebrates at this time. The aquatic room is equipped to accommodate both warm and cold water species in either sea water or fresh water.