Facilities

Facilities and Resources Guide

The campus biological laboratories are housed in seven buildings on campus:

Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences
Alles Laboratory for Molecular Biology
Norman W. Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology
Mabel and Arnold Beckman Laboratories of Behavioral Biology
Braun Laboratories
Beckman Institute
Broad Center for the Biological Sciences

Special facilities include rooms for the culturing of mutant types of Drosophila, a monoclonal antibody production facility, a fluorescence-activated cell sorter, scanning and transmission electron microscopes, a confocal microscope facility, a magnetic resonance imaging center, a transgenic mouse facility, a state-of-the-art microchemical facility for sequencing and synthesizing biologically important macromolecules, and a protein expression and purification center.

Following is a partial list of these special facilities and resources:

About 50 miles south of Pasadena, in Corona del Mar, is the William G. Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory, which provides facilities for research in cellular and molecular biology using marine animals, and for collecting and maintaining these animals.

Computer Support
help@biology.caltech.edu

IMSS consulting assists all users in the Division of Biology with computer related issues. IMSS personnel are trained in all areas of computer support including, but not limited to:

Application Support
Email Services
Network Services System
Upgrades
Hardware Related Problems
Software Related Problems
Dial up Services
Computer Repair

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Last modified 2008-09-24 09:48 AM