Research Facilities

Facilities available to the program include several preparative ultracentrifuges, high-speed centrifuges, gamma and liquid scintillation counters, environmentally controlled rooms and chambers, microbial and tissue culture rooms, laminar flow hoods, research microscopes, inverted microscopes, electron microscopes, protein purification and electrophoresis equipment of several types, and microcomputers. Faculty laboratories are equipped appropriately for specialized research activities of the faculty members. Facilities for mass spectrometry, NMR, fluoroimaging, and computer-assisted DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analysis as well as housing for research animals and plants are available to the program participants. Library holdings include 1.1 million volumes; over 8,000 periodicals are received at present. The current literature in molecular and cellular biology is covered particularly well.