An X-ray machine for mutagenizing Drosophila is available in the Department of Zoology. The Department of Animal Medicine and the Regional Primate Research Center of the University of Washington provide important animal resources for scientific investigation. The Departments of Zoology and Botany have walk-in cold rooms with running sea water. The Friday Harbor Laboratories is a modern facility for collecting, storing, and studying marine animals and plants. All student and staff home directories are kept on a central disk store of 30,000 megabytes that is backed up to tape daily.
All graduate students have accounts.
A full- time systems programmer maintains this facility and often writes customized computer programs to help with various student research tasks. The departmental confocal microscope and a new transmission EM store video picture files directly to this central disk store. The basic research facility consists of about 30 laboratories. A number of the staff scientists hold affiliate professorships in academic departments of the University of Washington and are active in university teaching and the supervising of graduate students. The Faculty and Their Research Department Of Biochemistry Paul Bornstein Regulation of expression of collagen and thrombospondin genes.