| Field of Study: | Biology/Biological Sciences, General Ecology
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| Description: | The Department has facilities for digital image processing, electron and confocal microscopy, analytical chemistry, molecular biology, fermentation, biotechnology, DNA synthesis and sequencing, cultivation of microbial cells and cells of yeasts, plants, insects and mammals. Facilities include large holding tanks for aquatic animals, and controlled environment rooms including an extensive greenhouse complex. Extensive reference collections are available for research with microfungi, vascular and cryptogamic plants as well as vertebrates and invertebrates, including major collections of fishes, fossil plants and vertebrates, insects and parasites. |
| Areas of Research: | Biological Sciences; Ecology; Microbiology and Biotechnology; Molecular Biology and Genetics; Physiology, Development and Cell Biology; Plant Biology; Systematics and Evolution.
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