Bioscience Research Institute
Facilities
It is not necessary that all participants in the Institute be physically
located in one place. Research is done in laboratories of the participants. It
is important, however, that there be ample opportunities for participants to
regularly interact with one another, both formally and informally. Such
opportunities are provided by frequent seminars by USM faculty and others. The
Institute also works to improve existing research facilities and to build new
ones. Shown below is a new 27,000 square feet research facility, which opened in
May 2003.
This new facility will bring together researchers who are presently scattered among a variety of on-campus and off-campus locations. It will house core facilities for confocal microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, flow cytometry, molecular epidemiology, gene expression, and cell culture and immortalization. At left is the architect´s rendering.
At right is a photograph of the newly completed wing taken in May, 2003.