Lasry Center for Bioscience
The Biology Department is located in the state-of-the-art Cathy ’83 and Marc ’81 Lasry Center for Bioscience, a 50,000-square-foot space that received a Gold Certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System.
The building houses classrooms, research laboratories, conference rooms, lounge spaces, and faculty offices, with an abundance of natural light. Its teaching and collaborative spaces, and an impressive collection of equipment, are used by faculty and students in biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, and environmental science.
Core Equipment
The Biology Department has an autoclave and dish room as well as the following core equipment:
- A dark room equipped with a UV transilluminator, a gel imaging system, and a phosphorimager
- Molecular biology equipment, including a Qubit fluorometer, Nanodrop spectrophotometer, Agilent AriaMX real-time PCR machine, and Oxford Nanopore MiniON sequencers.
- An image analysis facility housing a Nikon Eclipse e600 compound microscope with fluorescence and DIC capability, a SPOT RT Slider digital camera, and Nikon SMZ stereo microscope
- Four-degree Celsius and 37-degree Celsius walk-in environmental chambers
