Research

The Department of Biology is known nationally and internationally for its scientific excellence. Faculty, research personnel, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students work in a broad spectrum of research areas, including cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, neuroscience, physiology and systematics.

The Department of Biology is the focal point of life science research at Penn State, and it enjoys close ties with other departments in the Eberly College of Science, especially the Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Statistics. The Biology faculty participate in intercollege graduate programs in ecology, genetics, physiology, and plant physiology, and interdepartmental and intercollege research collaborations are common. Some Biology faculty also are members of the The Huck Institute for Life Sciences, the Center for Gene Regulation, and the Penn State Institutes of the Environment.

The Huck Institute for Life Sciences
Shared Technology Facilities

• University Park Campus

  • Center for Quantitative Cell Analysis
  • DNA Microarray Facility
  • Electron Microscope Facility
  • Hybridoma and Cell Culture Laboratory
  • Nucleic Acid Facility
  • Transgenic Mouse Facility

• Hershey Medical Center

  • Cell Science/Flow Cytometry Core Facility
  • Macromolecular Core Facility
  • Molecular Genetics Core Facility
  • Transgenic Core Facility
  • Additional Services/Research Resources

On-line Funding Locator

Funding Alert, an e-mail-based personalized notification service to help researchers locate funding sources, is a new service from the Community of Science (COS), Inc. The service will automatically e-mail information on funding sources of specific interest to researchers in COS's profile database. For more information on COS, visit its homepage at http://www.cos.com/. To add your profile to COS and become eligible for the Funding Alert Service, click on the COS Expertise button at the top left-hand corner of their screen.

Other Related Resources

• Caribbean Databases
  • Caribherp - West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles
  • Caribmap - A Cartographic History of the West Indies
• Statistical Ecol. & Environ. Statistics
• Drosophila Research at Penn State
• Penn State Institutes of the Environment
• Expansin Research
• Hydrothermal Vents Research
• IMEG - Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics
• Penn State Neuroscience Institute (PSNI)
• Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
• Research at Penn State
• Penn State Astrobiology Research Center
• Penn State Industrial Research Office
• The Biotechnology Institute