Lasry中心 for Bioscience
The 生物学 Department is located in the state-of-the-art Cathy ’83 and Marc ’81 Lasry中心 for Bioscience, a 50,000-square-foot space that received a Gold Certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System.
The building houses classrooms, research laboratories, 会议室, 休闲空间, and 教师 offices, with an abundance of natural light. Its teaching and collaborative spaces, and an impressive collection of equipment, are used by 教师 and students in biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, and environmental science.
Designed by Tsoi/Kobus and Associates of Cambridge, Mass., the Lasry中心 for Bioscience was the first building in Worcester to receive a Gold Certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, in 2007.
The LEED Gold is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, 建设, and operation of high-performance green buildings. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health:
- Sustainable site development
- 节约水
- 能源效率
- Materials selection
- Indoor environmental quality
核心设备
The 生物学 Department has an autoclave and dish room as well as the following core equipment:
- A dark room equipped with a UV transilluminator, a gel imaging system, and a phosphorimager
- Molecular biology equipment, including a Qubit fluorometer, Nanodrop spectrophotometer, Agilent AriaMX real-time PCR machine, and Oxford Nanopore MiniON sequencers.
- An image analysis facility housing a Nikon Eclipse e600 compound microscope with fluorescence and DIC capability, a SPOT RT Slider digital camera, and Nikon SMZ stereo microscope
- Four-degree Celsius and 37-degree Celsius walk-in environmental chambers
Within the 生物学 Department and in the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center, additional laboratory and field equipment includes:
- BioRad C1000 and MJ 研究 PTC 200 thermal cyclers
- Fuji FLA4000 imager
- Fuji FLA 7000 Phosphorimager
- Shimadzu UV-1550 PC spectrophotometer
- A collection of Thermo Electron 4001 Genesys 20 digital spectrophotometers
- Sorvall RC6, RC-5C and RC-5B high speed centrifuges
- Sorvall Legend Micro17 and Galaxy 14D microfuge collections
- Percival I-30 algae growth chamber
- Chlorophyll and Walz PAM-2500 fluorometers
- Backpack electroshocker
- Savant SC1100 SpeedVac
- Collections of Canon and Panasonic still and video cameras for use in animal behavior studies
- Shared minus 80°C freezers
- An extensive collection of small laboratory and field equipment used in teaching as well as in undergraduate and graduate student research, including analytical balances, digital and dial calipers, Hewlett Packard and Mac laptop computers, electrophoresis apparatus, hand-held GPS units, 孵化器, heat and stir plates, 显微镜, oscilloscopes and arbitrary function generators, pipettors and pipet aids, 瓶, vortexers, 还有水浴.)
学生 also have on-campus access to a 48-node Linux-based parallel high-performance computing cluster.
Clark’s 生物学 Department partners with other institutions in the Worcester area and beyond, providing additional opportunities for collaboration and equipment access.
