Resources and Facilities

The Department of Cell Biology occupies 35,000 square feet of research and teaching laboratories. The department is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation for biomedical research.

Institutional core research facilities provide support for: transgenic animals, peptide synthesis, protein sequencing, nucleic acid synthesis, recombinant DNA technology, electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, X-ray crystallography, tissue culture, fluorescence-activated cell sorting, submicron-particle sizing, monoclonal antibody production, and radioimmunoassay.

The Information Services Department provides access to a comprehensive selection of software and databases for cellular and molecular biology. Electronics and machine shops specialize in the design, construction, and servicing of instrumentation. The Lamar Soutter Medical Library subscribes to over 2,200 journals, houses a collection of over 216,000 volumes and provides computerized literature search facilities.

Research programs incorporate state-of-the-art experimental approaches which combine molecular, cellular and biochemical techniques.