Research facilities

Research laboratories for Molecular and Cellular Biology are housed in the Biology Building and in Nott Hall. A molecular biology core facility houses a high pressure liquid chromatography work station with multiple detection units, thermal cyclers, gel and image documentation and analysis systems, scintillation counters and ultracentrifuges. In summer 2009 many MCB research labs will kove to a new state of the art building that is currently under construction.

 

The Molecular Systematics Laboratory in Mary Harmon Bryant Hall is a community facility that houses an automated DNA sequencing system. The laboratory has additional facilities for DNA extraction, amplification and manual sequencing and is well equipped instruments including centrifuges, thermal cyclers, vertical and horizontal electrophoresis systems, and gel dryers to carry out these tasks.

 

The Optical Analysis Center located in the Biology Building houses transcmission and scanning electron microscopes, a laser confocal microscope and a light microscope equiped for digital imaging. Ancillary facilities and equipment include negative and print darkrooms, ultramicrotomes, vacuum evaproation and sputter coaters, and a critical point dryer. An animal care facility in Nott Hall, greenhouses, environmental chambers, and sterile transfer facilities are available for growth and maintenance of experimental organisms.

 

The Eric and Sarah Rogers Library of Science and Engineering includes over 1700 current periodicals and 200,000 monographs and a scientific communications laboratory. The University maintains a computer laboratory in the Biology Building. Graduate students have access to the central computer facilities of the University for data analysis and internet access.