The UIS Biology program is proud of: Transmission Microscope at UIS

• Great People
• Great Facilities
• Great Opportunities

Great People:

• Exemplary Faculty
  • Dr. Rebecca Landsberg
• Outstanding Students
  • Angela (McCauley) George
• Successful Alumni
  • What our Biology Students are saying

Scanning Electron Microscope at UIS

Great Facilities:

• Fully-stocked Greenhouse
• Transmission Microscope (above)
• Scanning Electron Microscope (right)
• DNA Sequencer (below)
• State-of-the-art Laboratories and Equipment
• The Therkildsen Field Station at Emiquon DNA Sequencer at UIS
  
• Photograph Facilities (2 dark rooms, macro- and microphotographic equipment)
• The following Molecular Biology equipment:
  
  • -80° C freezer
  • temperature-controled incubators
  • laminar-flow hoods
  • horizontal agarose-gel electrophoresis
  • vertical polyacryalmide gel electrophoresis
  • pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
  • thermocycle
• Quality light microscopes (polarizing, phase, fluorescence)
• Spectrophotometers (UV, infared, visible, atomic)
• Sampling equipment (aquatic and terrestrial habitats)
• Gas Chromatography & Mass Spectrophotometry
• Ultracentrafuges
• Array of organic and biochemistry analysis equipment
• The following Research Laboratories:
  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Botany
  • Cell Biology
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Molecular Biology

Great Opportunities:

• Opportunity to present research at the UIS Science Research Symposium
• Biology Gift Fund for students presenting research at nationwide conferences
• Active Biology Club
• Excellent assistance for Pre-Professional Health Sciences students
• Great chances of success after graduation