| Animal Enterprise Management |
- Faciliites for animal behavior, weight gain, milk yield, body temperature, respiration rate, and general health measurements
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| Biomass Utilization and Microbial Ecology |
- Faculty laboratory (Columbus)
- Wooster anaerobic digesters of different scales with sophisticated monitoring and controls
- Laboratories for microbiology, nutrition, feed, chemistry research
- Computing capabilities to model and analyze research results
- Classical microbiological methods and molecular biology techniques (e.g., real-time PCR, recombinant DNA techniques, DGGE), metagenomics, comparative genomics, proteomics, and microarrays
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| Genetics |
- Columbus faculty lab: animal cell culture incubators and hood, PCR machines, Western blot equipment, and facilities for experiments in general molecular and cellular biology
- Meat Science Laboratory (see below)
- Access to core molecular biology facilities
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| Mammary |
- Areas used for mammary physiology and mastitis trials include customized stalls for intensive sampling and video recording
- Faculty laboratory: microscopy, protein characterization, cellular, and molecular biology
- OARDC Dairy Nutrition Laboratory: microbiology, mastitis diagnostics, and cytology
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| Meat Science |
- Meat Science Laboratory (Columbus)
- Access to food animal species: swine, cattle, sheep, goats, and poultry
- Harvest and sample collection, carcass composition and fabrication, fat and muscle quality assessment, chemical composition, mechanical tenderness assessment, and sensory panel capabilities
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| Muscle Biology |
- Instruments for muscle cell culture, gene manipulation in cells and animals, gene cloning, protein purification and quantification, quantification of mRNA and protein, and flow cytometry
- Facilities for experiments in general molecular, cellular, and developmental biology
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| Nutritional Science |
- Specialized facilities at animal centers located on both campuses for nutrient digestion, metabolism, and environmental impact of animal feeding.
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| Physiology |
- Faculty laboratories in Columbus and Wooster: equipped to handle endocrinological and molecular biology techniques such as hormone analyses, PCR, protein determination, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and tissue culture
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