Facilities & Services

The Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory's missions are to provide services (disease diagnostic, quarantine and therapeutic evaluation) to the shrimp industry worldwide, conduct training on shrimp disease diagnostics and carry out basic research in discovering disease etiology, developing diagnostic tools and understanding the molecular basis of microbial pathogenesis in shrimp.

The Ravishankar Lab has been testing food products for their safety and quality since 2013. We conduct testing/analyses in the following areas: shelf-life (of shelf-stable and fresh foods), microbiological testing for indicator bacteria, foodborne pathogenic screening for food products, food quality testing, aflatoxin testing, and more!

We provide services for academic, clinical and commercial entities via our Enterics Research Consortium that has over 15 years of end-to-end expertise in Biohazard Levels 1 and 2 studies on diverse bacteria. Services include: diagnostics, phylogenetic typing, routine bacteriology, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, multi-omics experimentation (whole genome sequencing and annotation, proteomics, metabolomics) and bacterial infection animal models. We are especially facile in studies relevant to infectious disease drug development, pre-clinical trials, and analyses of clinical trial specimens.

The Cooper Laboratory’s Sequencing and Food Safety Consulting Service provides next generation sequencing, bioinformatic analysis, microbiome characterization, foodborne pathogen source tracking, and consulting on effective application of genomics for food safety services for food companies, government agencies, or academic institutions involving whole genome sequencing, metagenomics, transcriptomics, and targeted sequencing.