Biosafety Level-3 Laboratory (BSL-3)
The BSL-3 is available for research with Select Agents. Select Agents are biological agents and toxins that have been determined to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety, to animal and plant health, or to animal or plant products.
Equipment
- An Esco class II type A2 biosafety cabinet
- Priorclave front loading 100L autoclave
- 1 -80oC freezer and 2 4oC refrigerator/-20OC freezer
- Eppendorf 5810R and 5424 Centrifuges
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) maintenance and storage
- 2 370C CO2 incubators
- 1 shaking incubator
- PCR equipment
- 1 microscope
- 1 visible light spectrophotometer
- 1 microplate reader
- 1 biophotometer
Rates
Daily Rate: $550
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (8 hours)
One month of use $9,500. Limited to a max of 8 hours per day, any additional hour (or portion thereof) over 8 hours is billed at $120/ per hour.
Routine services are billed per hour at $120/ hour
- Quarterly compliance review (approx. 2 hours)
- Periodic follow up visits
- Agent transfer paperwork and receipt (approx. 3-4 hours per transfer/receipt)
- Assistance with Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) Protocol Submission and agent specific SOPs
Initial classroom user training (Required; Provided by Responsible Official (RO) or Alternate Responsible Official (ARO)): $350
- Biosafety and Biosecurity
- Facility Operations
- Emergency Response Procedures
Times available are variable based on availability of facility and schedule of RO/ARO.
Individual(s) responsible for contamination of room requiring a gross decontamination of suite will result in $10,000 charge for service
