San Diego Instruments Gemini II Multi-Station Rodent Avoidance Behavioral Testing System

The San Diego Instruments Gemini II Avoidance System is a modular rodent behavioral testing apparatus designed for advanced active and passive avoidance paradigms essential in neuroscience, behavioral pharmacology, and neurotoxicology research. It supports up to 8 independent testing stations configurable for shock and airstim stimuli, enabling versatile behavioral analysis across rat and mouse models.

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This system is critical for biomedical engineering, molecular diagnostics, and behavioral neuroscience workflows, offering a flexible platform for studying memory, learning, and anxiety models in rodents. Although currently sold as salvaged and non-functional, requiring repair due to broken ports, the Gemini II remains a potentially valuable asset for laboratories focusing on gene editing impacts on behavior, bioprocessing of neurological disease models, and synthetic biology research involving live animal phenotyping. The equipment’s robust tracking and stimulation features make it a useful tool widely adopted in preclinical behavioral pharmacology and biopharmaceutical production pipelines involving animal models.