Facility
The AGGRC occupies ~3 acres next to the Mississippi River and adjacent to the LSU main campus in Baton Rouge. This location
facilitates travel and interdisciplinary collaboration for faculty and students. It encompasses 23,000 ft2 on the main
foundation and has three additional outbuildings for storage and other uses. It is the site of the former LSU Dairy Improvement
Center. AGGRC development has involved continuous alteration and renovation since 2015 to repurpose the facility from
livestock to aquatic species.
The AGGRC Main Building occupies more than 11,000 ft2 and has 16 3-D printers in 5 rooms including a design maker space
(A), a custom fabrication room (B) and a rapid prototyping area (C). For animal holding there is a biomedical (NIH) fish
room (D), a general wet laboratory (E) and a quarantine room (F). A fully equipped electrical engineering laboratory
(G) receives intensive daily use. The former barns located on the building foundation (blue shading) have been converted
to storage space and animal holding areas. Currently a barn is being repurposed for creation of the Advanced Fabrication
Laboratory which will share a roof with the former Bull Semen Collection Arena.
