Facilities & Resources
Our molecular and cell biology laboratories contain equipment like:
- Thermal cyclers for polymerase chain reaction
- Laminar flow chambers and CO2 incubators for mammalian cell culture
- Epi-fluorescence research microscope with digital image analysis system
- Research lab centrifuges and microcentrifuges
- DNA agarose and PAGE electrophoresis,
- -70°C ultralow freezers
- Media prep facility containing hospital autoclave
- Research Scanning Electron Microscope
- Access to research facilities at Pymatuning Ecology Laboratory, Allegheny National Forest, and old-growth stands in Cook Forest State Park
- Field equipment ranging from GPS units, and soil surveying equipment to wildlife tracking devices, and backpack electro shockers for fish surveys.
- Environmental chambers
- Live animal facility with housing for fish, amphibians, reptiles and rodents
- A water chemistry lab
- Vertebrate teaching collection with more than 2,000 specimens of fish, reptiles and mammals
- Herbarium with more than 1,500 specimens of plants.
- Geoscience laboratories also take advantage of access to diverse field sites on the Allegheny plateau
- Field equipment like handheld GPS and Trebble field research units, and ground penetrating radar
- GIS (Geographic Information Systems) computer lab
- Computer Cartography computer lab
- An extensive mineral collection
The following laboratories available for undergraduate teaching and research:
- Seven undergraduate research labs
- Molecular biology lab
- Cell biology lab
- Microbiology lab
- Media prep facility containing hospital autoclave
- Ecology lab
- Genetics/physiology lab
- Invertebrate biology lab
- Seven "smart" classrooms
- Meteorology lab
- Mineral/Petrology Geology lab
- Hydrogeology lab
- Climatology lab
- Rock preparation lab
- Soils preparation lab
- Physical Geology lab