The Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences has several teaching and research labs.
Biology
We have labs dedicated to conduct animal and plant research (molecular or organismal, especially in the following areas
- Animal Behavior
- Cell and Molecular Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Ecology and Evolution
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology
- Neurobiology
There is also a greenhouse, as well as ample equipment and supplies for our students to conduct cutting-edge research. Students are involved in the entire process of scientific investigations, from learning about a subject to building and testing hypotheses, conducting experiments, analyzing results and evaluating data in the context of previous scientific evidence.
Chemistry
The chemistry laboratories provide state-of-the-art instrumentation including:
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility
- An X-ray generator
- Fourier-transform infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers
- A double-monochromator fluorimeter
- A recording double beam absorption UV and visible spectrophotometer
- Computer interfaced, scanning spectrophotometers
- A mass spectrophotometer
- An atomic absorption spectrophotometer with graphite furnace
- Four high-performance liquid chromatographs, rotovaps and gas chromatograph
- Computer simulation facilities using state of the art hardware and software packages
Biochemistry
The biochemistry research laboratory has the following:
- A cold room
- Preparative centrifuges and an ultracentrifuge
- Lyophilizer
- Electrophoresis apparatus
- Automated fraction collectors
- Equipment for protein and nucleic acid biochemistry
Kakos Center for Scientific Computing
The Kakos Center for Scientific Computing opened in 2014 and gives our students access to the same state-of-the-art technology used at the world’s top universities and research laboratories. It boasts a liquid-cooled 64GB high speed GNU/Linux server complete with four Tesla graphics processing units. Projects that our students and faculty use the Kakos Center for include:
- Developing algorithms
- Modeling 3D structures of molecules
- Solving equations that require high performance computing