Facilities & Equipment
The department has multiple large teaching laboratories (4 in the Collier Hall of Science and 3 in the recently built Sally Breidegam Miksiewicz Center for Health Sciences) with seating for 24 students in each. None of our courses have more than 24 students in a laboratory section. We have a small animal facility that is used for short-term housing of vertebrates for teaching and research. We have a greenhouse for course laboratories and research in botany, a room for microscopy and digital imaging of biological samples, and several small laboratories for specialized faculty and student research.
Equipment
The Department of Biological Sciences has the equipment necessary to carry out research in any of the areas available to students, from high-speed centrifuges and electrophoresis rigs to study biomolecules to oxygen sensors and remote data loggers for fieldwork. A partial list of equipment includes:
- Varian Cary 300 Ultraviolet-Visible Dual Beam Absorption Spectrometer
- Olympus BX41 Compound Microscope with digital imaging capacity
- Nikon Optiphot Epifluorescence Microscope system
- Leica sliding microtome
- Miscellaneous research-grade equipment for the Neuroscience and Biochemistry programs, e.g. rotometers and electrophoresis equipment (including a 2-D gel system for proteomics)
- LiCOR Ecophysiology system
- Smith-Root LR-24 Electrofisher
- BioTek µQuant UV/Vis Microplate Spectrophotometer
- Biology MicroLog 1 Microbial Identification System
- YSI 556 Environmental Micrometer
- Bioquant Image Analysis system