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Buildings
The Biological Sciences Building
and the Riffe Building are connected.
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Molecular Genetics faculty are housed in three buildings:
- The Biological Sciences Building, which houses offices, classrooms and research laboratories.
- The Riffe Building (adjacent to the Biological Sciences Building), which also houses the Biological Sciences and Pharmacy Library.
- Rightmire Hall, which also houses the Neurobiotechnology and Plant Biotechnology Centers, which houses facilities for plant genetic engineering, and the transgenic mouse facility.
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Libraries & Databases
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The Biological Sciences/Pharmacy Library houses 1,300 journals & 120,000 volumes in the life sciences. The library is located in the Riffe Building, which is adjacent to the Biological Sciences Building.
Substantial resources are also available in the Agriculture & Health Sciences Libraries.
The Ohio State University Library system participates in OhioLINK, a statewide network providing access to databases & library catalogs of more than 50 colleages and universities. Electronic access is available to hundreds of full-text journals & numerous databases.
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Research Equipment
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State-of-the-art Instrumentation and facilities are available to all researchers within the department. 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. These include the following:
- Plant Microbe Genomics Facility. Services include: DNA sequencing, genotyping, DNA microarray, quantitiative PCR, proteomics, robotics, microplate reader.
- Microscopy and Imaging Facility. 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.
- Campus Chemical Instrumentation Center. Analytical services include GC mass spectrometry and NMR facilities, maximum 800-megahertz.
- Fermentation Facility. This facility is used for fermentation research and for obtaining large quantities of cells for enzyme isolation.
- Computer Facilities. These range from departmental microcomputers to a Cray Y-MP8/864 supercomputer. Each laboratory is linked through a campus-wide network to mainframe computers permitting access to programs that include the Wisconsin GCG DNA sequence analysis program and the Lexis/Nexis search system. The College of Biological Sciences operates a Computational Biology Facility for studies on protein and nucleic acids structures.
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