Facilities

BUILDINGS

Molecular Genetics faculty are housed in several buildings:

• The Biological Sciences Building, which houses offices, classrooms and research laboratories.
• The Biomedical Research Tower, which houses research laboratories, seminar rooms, and core facilities.
• The Riffe Building (adjacent to the Biological Sciences Building)
• Rightmire Hall, which houses facilities for Zebrafish aquaculture and Plant Biotechnology.
• Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute, which houses research laboratories, seminar rooms, and core facilities.
• Aronoff Laboratory, which houses many of the plant molecular genetics faculty.
• Jennings Hall, which houses teaching laboratories for our General Plant Biology Courses.
• Biological Sciences Greenhouse

For a better idea of where these buildings are on campus, view the OSU Campus Map.

LIBRARIES & DATABASES

• Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Library
• Health Sciences Libraries
  The John A. Prior Health Sciences Library and its associated libraries provide health information for the needs of educators, clinicians, researchers, staff, and students of The Ohio State University and its affiliates. As a secondary mission, we support the health information and resource needs of the global community.
• Thompson Library 
• The Arabidopsis Gene Regulatory Information Server (AGRIS)
• Grass Regulatory Information Server (Grassius)

OhioLINK

The Ohio State University Library system participates in OhioLINK, a statewide network providing access to databases & library catalogs of more than 50 colleges and universities. Electronic access is available to hundreds of full-text journals & numerous databases.

RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

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:

• 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.
• Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Microarray Resource
  Services include gene expression profiling using commercial and customized DNA chips.
• Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Nucleic Acid Shared Resource
  Services include sample preparation, DNA methylation analysis, and next generation DNA sequencing.
• Campus Chemical Instrument Center (CCIC) Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility
  Services include protein identification using Mass Spectrometry.
• Human Cancer Genetics Genotyping Facility
  Services include DNA sequencing and genotyping.
• Mathematical Biosciences Institute
  An Institute supported by NSF to promote the application of mathematical and computational tools to biological systems.
• Analytical Cytometry Shared Resource  
  Flow cytometry is a quantitative analytical method that can measure physical and chemical properties of cells and particles as well as separate cells based on specific characteristics. The ACSR’s University Cell Analysis and Sorting Core Laboratory provides instrumentation, technical operation and support for cell identification, characterization and cell separation. The resource provides the primary means of rapidly and accurately analyzing multiple cell characteristics up to thirteen markers as well as sorting pure populations of cells for cancer investigators.  A number of educational opportunities are available for researchers to use and apply flow cytometry. These include scientific seminars, cancer-specific meetings, instrumentation overviews, application workshops and full day training sessions  Additionally, the Mid Ohio Cytometry Associates (MOCA) regional “users group” has been established, which meets regularly to discuss relevant cytometry issues and to generate educational ideas. 

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.