Research Facilities

Graduate students and postdocs carry out their research in well-equipped faculty research laboratories.  In addition to basic research equipment, tools, and facilities, major shared facilities include:

Cutting-edge microscopy facilities: transmission/scanning electron, fluorescence, confocal laser scanning, and photon imaging microscopes

Animal-care: maintenance, experimentation, surgery, mouse transgenic and knockout facilities

Fluorescence-activated cell sorter facility

A recently remodeled greenhouse, plant growth chambers, and controlled temperature rooms

Fresh and salt-water aquaria

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) facility that houses a whole-body 3MRI system

Molecular genetics core with the capacity to analyze genechips

Molecular modeling center

Proteomics facility including ITC, CD, DSC, and SPR instrumentation

Research Links

Research and Discoverywithin the Division of Biology & Medicine (including CORE facilities)
Researchat Brown University
Library System at Brown University

Off-Campus Facilities

As part of their PhD training, students may also conduct research off-campus at institutions affiliated with our graduate programs:

Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Program in Woods Hole, MA
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD