The Ahmanson Center was completed in 1966 and consists of a group of five-story towers linked to each other by walkways. Ahmanson houses a number of molecular biology laboratories with their associated equipment such as centrifuges, electrophoresis tanks, autoclaves, culture rooms, and so on. Beyond the Ahmanson Center our students have access to other resources on this campus. The Seaver Science Library houses most of the research and review journals. The Center for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis has several transmission and scanning electron microscopes and also microtomes and photographic dark-rooms.
Vivaria are available for the housing and care of research animals.
USC maintains a Marine Science Research Center on Catalina Island which is available for marine research and for small conferences and retreats. Some of our students are based in labs outside of the Ahmanson Center. Current students have worked at the Cancer Center and in the Pathology Department at the USC Health Sciences Campus, at research facilities at the City of Hope hospital complex, in the USC Gerontology School, and in the Denny Mathematics Research Building. Other facilities are available in other Biology Department buildings on the University Park Campus.