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The Biological
Sciences Building and the Riffe Building are connected.
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.
For a better
idea of where these buildings are on campus, view the
OSU
Campus Map.
Biological
Sciences/Pharmacy Library
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.
 Agriculture
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.
OhioLINK
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.
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.
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.
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
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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