What facilities are provided to the graduate students in the Biology Department?
Students have access to a wide range of facilities housed in three buildings, Leidy Lab, Goddard Labs, and Carolyn Lynch Laboratory Building. The Lynch Laboratory is new, built in 2006, and has brought Penn to the forefront in research facilities. A new building is being planned that will connect Leidy Lab and Lynch Lab. Construction on that building will start shortly. Facilities found in the Biology buildings include an animal facilities, aquariums for both zebra fish and larger species, plant growth rooms with controlled environments, a greenhouse, advance microscopy and image analysis laboratory with a TCS laser-scanning confocal microsope and digital cameras connected to light- and stereomicroscopes, and a digital imaging facility with the capacity to analyze flourescent and chemiluminescent films, print photographs and scan onto 35 mm film and perform other imaging tasks. Students also have access to the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania located in the Chestnut H
