Community Outreach
Lasher Hosts 4-H Day Camp Visitors
When biosecurity protocols can be met, Lasher Lab staff enjoy welcoming area youth to visit the laboratory; shown is a visit in 2019 with attendees of a Sussex 4-H day camp. Student campers enjoyed practicing biosecurity by suiting up in personal protective gear, observing the different roles of the Lasher team and learning how important Lasher Lab is for the health of Delmarva poultry.
Lasher Laboratory primarily serves both commercial and non-commercial clients across the Delmarva Peninsula. The lab provides outreach with the poultry industry beyond diagnostic testing and applied research. Through collaboration with Georgie Cartanza, University of Delaware Poultry Extension Agent, solutions to current poultry issues have been identified through various projects. The lab also supplies outreach research by supporting the Jones-Hamilton Poultry Research House which deliveries research for poultry environmental issues. Outreach to backyard growers is accomplished by offering free diagnostic services. Lasher Lab tours, when available, provide information to the public on the scientific testing that takes place daily and how that data supports the poultry community which effects the entire Delmarva peninsula.
At Lasher Lab, biosecurity is paramount. Therefore, we cannot always open our doors for public tours! The above virtual tour is the next best thing to being there. Come inside and meet the dedicated scientists and staff as they explain their work and the beautiful lab facility renovated in 2015.
Lasher Lab's 2015 Makeover Helps With Poultry Disease Diagonistics and Research, Response
April 29, 2015--The newly renovated Lasher Laboratory avian diagnostic, disease and research facility was the focus as community members attended an open house held Friday, April 17, at the University of Delaware’s Elbert N. and Ann V. Carvel Research and Education Center in Georgetown, Delaware.