Graduate School Bulletin

Spring 2023

Facilities of Microbiology and Immunology Department

The Department of Microbiology and Immunologhy occupies the second floor of the Life Sciences Building as well as space on the lower level, first and third floors of the Life Sciences Building. Program faculty members’ laboratories are also located on the first, second and third floors of the Centers for Molecular Medicine (CMM) and within other departments at Stony Brook University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Approximately 47,000 square feet of research space are available within the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Each research laboratory is fully equipped, and, in addition, the Department provides access to a variety of communal central facilities and services. These include a flow cytometry facility, glassware washing and sterilization facility, analytical equipment lab, deconvolution microscopy facility, environmental rooms, and darkrooms. Major items of equipment are organized into these central facilities, which are readily available to trainees. The Centers for Molecular Medicine, a state-of-the-art research and teaching facility, serves as a physical and intellectual bridge between investigators in the adjacent Life Sciences Building and the nearby University Health Sciences Center. The Health Sciences Library and Barry S. Coller Learning Center, located in the Health Sciences Center, contains collections of biological and medical books and journals presently totaling 262,000 volumes, including more than 3,200 journal titles. In addition, the Health Sciences Library provides access to more than 2,300 full-text electronic journals. Other campus libraries include the Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library