The Department of Biology is located in the Lewis Science Center and the Conway Corporation Center for Sciences. Overall, the Department occupies over 80,000 square feet of modern classroom and laboratory space. The Department is well equipped with a wide variety of outdoor equipment and state-of-the-art laboratory instrumentation.
Facilities include:
- Tissue culture
- Microscope Core
- Greenhouses (3) and plant growth chambers (5)
- Herbarium
- Storage facility for trucks, boats, motors, ATV, and aquatic nets
- Jewell Moore Nature Reserve
- Culwell Natural Area
Specialized equipment:
Microscopy
JOEL EDS scanning electron microscope, Zeiss laser confocal microscope, epifluorescent microscopes, dissecting microscopes, compound microscopes
Molecular
DNA & protein documentation systems (Biorad & Alpha Innotech), Sorvall Lynx 4000 and 6000 centrifuges, Sorvall legend X1R centrifuge, Sorvall MTX microultra centrifuge, Savant speedvac concentrator, Nanodrop spectrophotometers
Neuroscience
Microtome, neuroprobe amplifiers, micropipette puller, voltage-current clamp
Physiological measurements
Organ baths, DMT pressurized myograph system, Genesis UV-Vis spectrophotometer, Powerlab system, Parr Semimicro calorimeter, Sable metabolic system, EchoMRI body composition analyzer
Ecological Analysis
Hache DR3900 Benchtop VIS Spectrophotometer, Hache HQ440d Benchtop Dual Input, Multi-Parameter Meter for pH, Conductivity, Optical Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, and ISE measurements