The Biological Sciences Building and the Riffe Building are connected. The Biological Sciences Building , which houses offices, classrooms and research laboratories. Rightmire Hall , which also houses the Neurobiotechnology and Plant Biotechnology Centers, which houses facilities for plant genetic engineering, and the transgenic mouse facility. The library is located in the Riffe Building, which is adjacent to the Biological Sciences Building. These include standard equipment items such as ultracentrifuges, liquid scintillation counters, phosphorimagers, spectrophotometers, high pressure liquid chromatographic equipment, constant-temperature rooms, PCR machines, electronic imaging systems, luminometers, growth chambers, and cell culture facilities.
More specialized equipment is available in a variety of campus instrumentation facilities.
This includes light, electron and confocal microscopy. Transgenic Mouse Facility . Capabilities include pronuclear injections as well as embryonic stem cells for the creation of gene knock outs. Analytical Cytometry Laboratory . This facility provides modern flow cytometric hardware and software for cell characterization and sorting.