Equipment and Instrumentation

The revitalized Neidig-Garber Science Center offers biology, chemistry, and physics students laboratory experiences with a range of equipment and instrumentation. Neidig-Garber Science Center has:

• eight teaching laboratories including two first-year labs
• nine student research laboratories
• a biotechnology suite
• a microscopy suite with SEM and TEM
• two greenhouses
• an animal room with cage washer
• an aquatics room
• cell and tissue culture rooms
• photographic darkrooms and a printing room
• a walk-in environmental chamber
• wireless access through the entire building
• several study rooms and lounge areas

Students benefit from hands-on training with modern instrumentation. Major teaching/research instrumentation includes:

• ISI scanning electron microscope
• Zeiss transmission electron microscope
• ultramicrotomes
• photomicroscopes
• fluorescence microscopes
• IWorx data collections stations in the physiology labs
• ultracentrifuge
• high-speed centrifuges
• several Ocean Optics spectrometers
• a UV/VIS spectrophotometer
• biological safety hood
• a Panasonic micro-video system
• projection systems for micro-video cameras