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 Discovery within the Division of Biology and Medicine (including CORE facilities)
• Research at Brown University
• Brown Library System

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 Program in Woods Hole, MA
• National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD