Research Facilities

The James I. Swenson Science building features research laboratories and shared instrumentation facilities in the state-of-the-art, $33 million building. Features include temperature control rooms, tissue culture labs, and shared use equipment rooms. Traditional research laboratories also are available in the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth, the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Duluth, the Natural Resources Research Institute, and the Environmental Progection Agency in Duluth.

Faculty and students in the Integrated Biosciences Graduate Program also conduct research at shared resources of the University of Minnesota, including the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, the Proteomics Facility, the Advanced Genetics Analysis Center, the CBS Imaging Center, the BioTechnology Resource Center, the Mass Spectrometry Consortium for the Life Sciences and Protein Analysis Facility, the BioMedical Genomics Center, the BioInformatics Research and Computing Facility, the NRRI Geographic Information Systems Laboratory, the Visualization and Digital Imaging Laboratory, the Large Lakes Observatory Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, and the Jean Duluth Research and Teaching Facility.