Facility Details

Our core, which is part of the PennCHOP Microbiome Program, provides access for researchers to isolators and the state-of-the-art Isocage system (individual sterile caging units) for variety of in vivo studies using germ free mice. Core personnel provide technical support for germ-free experiments. A new addition to core is the ability to perform "dirty mouse" experiments in which lab mice are exposed to a cocktail of pathogens typically excluded from specific pathogen free (SPF) facilities.