The Zebrafish Facility Ghent (ZFG) uses the zebrafish as an increasingly popular vertebrate model organism and provides services to both UGent and external users. These services mainly include zebrafish caretaking, breeding and genetic management, zebrafish disease modeling and zebrafish toxicology testing.
Services
- Breeding programs for zebrafish
- Housing for zebrafish during experiments
- Direct supply of various developmental stages from embryos to adult zebrafish
- Basic molecular techniques (including genotyping, transgenesis, in situ hybridization, microscopy)
- Sperm cryopreservation
- In vitro fertilization
- Biobanking.
Contact details
Website: https://www.zebrafishfacilityghent.org/
E-mail: zfg@ugent.be
Phone number: +32 9 332 43 96