The “Centre for Laboratory Animal Studies (BSL II)” built with a cost of about Rs. 7 Crores has the capacity for housing about 7,000 lab animals, such as, rat, mice, rabbit and hamsters etc.
Dr Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR) inaugurated the state-of-the-art “Centre for Laboratory Animal Studies and Centre for Climate Resilient Animal Adaptation Studies” during the Silver Jubilee celebrations at the ICAR- recently. Dr Mohapatra also inaugurated the Indo-Australian International Workshop on “Transfer of mitigation technologies for heat stress in farm animals” organized during the occasion.
The Director urged to take the Institute forward towards an international arena. He opined the significance of developing the ICAR-NIANP as a “Global Institute of Excellence in frontier areas of Animal Nutrition and Physiology”. Dr Mohapatra signified the importance of developing a blueprint of targeted breeds and build appropriate programme to achieve the targets.
In his address, Dr Joykrushna Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries Science), ICAR insisted on effectively utilizing the facilities for the ongoing research programme on climate change and livestock production.
Dr Bhupendra Nath Tripathi, Deputy Director General (Animal Science) released the research highlights on “Climate resilient goat production: Current scenario and way forward” during the occasion.
The “Centre for Laboratory Animal Studies (BSL II)” built with a cost of about Rs. 7 Crores has the capacity for housing about 7,000 lab animals, such as, rat, mice, rabbit and hamsters etc. The animals will be used for the investigations on bio-availability of nutrients, stem cell biology, stress models and for breeding and supply of laboratory animals to the other organizations.
Built with an estimated cost of about Rs. 2 Crores, the “Centre for Climate Resilient Animal Adaptation Studies” has 24 micro-climatic controlled chambers – 12 for thermo-neutral zone and 12 for heating / cooling. The chambers will be used for the quantification of epigenetic changes associated with the climate change in small ruminants, pathway analysis study for heat stress, etc.
Earlier, in his welcome address, Dr Raghavendra Bhatta, Director, ICAR-NIANP provided an overview about the Indo-Australian Workshop organized during the occasion.
A total of 30 participants from all over the country India and Heads of all ICAR Institutes at Bengaluru participated in the event.
Around 4 delegates from University of Melbourne, Australia also participated in the workshop.
