The Biotron is a controlled environment facility for biological research. The Biotron is a unit within the UW-Madison Graduate School . For UW-Madison investigators, research at the Biotron is subsidized by the Graduate School.
Outside investigators paying unsubsidized rates are welcome when space is available.
The Biotron provides researchers the ability to manipulate parameters of the physical environment to simulate natural environments or changes in the environment resulting from human activities. The Biotron is a complex air conditioning system consisting of 50 rooms with artificial lighting and 29 greenhouse units, each of which is independently controlled and ventilated. We have a number of rooms that can hold temperatures from 10 to 40 degrees Celsius. We have plant controlled environment rooms as well as greenhouses. The greenhouses were completed in 1996.