uOttawa Virtual Campus Tour

Hi!  My name is Eleanor and I’m a biotechnology student. I’m here to show you around the science labs and classrooms on campus. Our first stop is the building behind me – the Biosciences Complex. 

Opened in 2004, the teaching labs of the BioSciences Complex are used for both biology and biochemistry classes. In the same year, it was voted the most energy-efficient building in Canada. 

Grab your lab coat and let’s go to the biology lab!

Hi! This lab has state-of-the-art microscopes and computerized workstations. Today we’re looking at Drosophila melanogaster – better known as the fruit fly.  Hey Aman! Can we have a look? Next, let’s go to one of our world-class biochem labs.

Here, students learn to use a wide variety of techniques. This week we’re doing DNA fingerprints … Hey! It looks like you inserted the gene you wanted into your DNA.

I wonder if the proteins are there too.  We have our own dark room on campus so that students can develop the pictures of their lab results right away.

All right!  Looks like this worked too. That makes me think of another question, how do the chemicals actually develop the picture? Let’s go to the chemistry laboratories in Marion Hall and see if they can tell us!

Well, it looks like they’re not doing any photodetection today. We’re doing a distillation – separating out different chemicals. Well that’s done, so now I am ready to add the next reactant. Uh-oh!  That wasn’t supposed to happen. Maybe I should take a break from the labs for a while … let’s go look at the lecture hall in Marion.

Seating 424 students, Marion Auditorium is the largest lecture hall on campus. It’s fully equipped with audio-visual systems, so everyone can see and hear the prof, whether you’re sitting here. Or here! 

This building also has a student lounge, the offices for the uOttawa Science Students Association, or SSA, research laboratories for Chemistry and Geology/Earth Sciences, and a brand new undergraduate geology lab. 

We’re here in one of the physics labs in MacDonald Hall. Today we are studying the temperature of liquid nitrogen. Can I try?

Yeah, that’s cold all right! I have a lab report to finish. In the meantime, how about taking a look at some of the other parts of campus?  Thanks for stopping by!