BROOKINGS – Dignitaries, South Dakota State University faculty and staff, and others from the agricultural community celebrated the new Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory with a ribbon cutting on campus Friday afternoon.
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BROOKINGS – Dignitaries, South Dakota State University faculty and staff, and others from the agricultural community celebrated the new Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (ADRDL) with a ribbon cutting on campus Friday afternoon.
Ag professors and deans spoke and attended the event alongside SDSU President Barry Dunn and Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden, who’s shown above center after cutting the ceremonial ribbon.
The laboratory was built in 1967 and with the growth of agriculture and veterinary technology, the lab needed a structural and technological renovation. The 80,000-square-foot expansion and remodeling cost $58.6 million. Plans for this expansion were signed off by Gov. Dennis Daugaard.
The ADRDL has been on the front lines of fending off animal- and plant-based diseases for more than five decades, said John Killefer, South Dakota Corn Utilization Council endowed dean of the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. This lab has been ranked in the top of several fields of research for several years.
The ADRDL has 11 areas of major function: bacteriology, DNA sequencing and bioinformatics, clinical pathology/parasitology, serology, food safety microbiology, virology, histopathology, molecular diagnostics, extension/outreach, research and specialized research testing.