Managed by Animal Care, the gnotobiotic core at Rutgers University provides investigators with the ability to work with germ-free and SPF mice. Currently the core maintains a germ-free colony with C57BL/6 GF mice and Swiss Webster mice to support Rutgers investigators.  We offer many technical services that also support gnotobiotic studies.

https://research.rutgers.edu/animal-care/gnotobiotic-core

Our gnotobiotic core provides the following types of technical services to researchers as per their protocol needs:

• Colony management and breeding of germ-free and SPF mice
• Injections
• Blood collection
• Identification & tissue collection for genotyping - ear punch, tail snip
• Body weight
• Fecal collection
• Sterility testing- food, environment, swabs
• Sterile supplies for experiments-available upon request (ex: sterile gowns, gloves, 1.5ml microcentrifuge tubes, needles & syringes)
• Health monitoring - in house microbiological testing, external diagnostic lab for molecular testing
• Animal husbandry services
• Rederivation offered in the future
• Transfer of germ-free mice in autoclavable cages
• Fecal storage at -80