Research Support Facilities

The Department of Microbiology occupies more than 34,000 square feet of space in the Biological Sciences Building. Facilities are also available for environmental studies at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. Departmental laboratories are equipped for state-of-the-art research in microbiology.

Professionally staffed University research facilities include:
> Bioexpression and Fermentation Facility
> Center for Complex Carbohydrate Research
> Center for Ultrastructural Research: electron and laser-scanning confocal microscopy
> Chemical and Biological Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility
> Georgia X-ray Crystallography Center
> Integrated Biotech Laboratories: Sequencing and Synthesis, Proteomics Resource (mass spectrometry, 2d-gel electrophoresis, multi-dimensional chromatography), and Functional Genomics Resource (microarrary, real-time PCR, and genotyping)
> Molecular Graphics Laboratory
> Monoclonal Antibody Facility