First-year biology students take part in lab activities, using the brand new facilities of the Bioscience Complex on September 21 – the very first day that the labs were opened for classroom instruction.
Three floors of the complex comprise some of the best-equipped undergraduate biology and biochemistry labs in Canada. The 400 biology workstations in 10 labs include top-of-the-line electronic microscopes and digital imaging cameras and software.
A digital network allows a lab instructor to broadcast images captured by one microscope to any or all workstations in the same room or even to other labs. Students can also retrieve images via the network to work on them at remote locations. “This means that the lab experience is not shut down after three hours but can be extended outside the classroom,” said biology professor Jon Houseman.
“Such advanced equipment will allow our students to become highly skilled in imaging techniques,” Houseman said. “Ultimately, this will accelerate the pace of research and lead to faster discoveries.”
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Virtual tour of the Bioscience Complex
