From high-tech labs to ocean research vessels, Occidental’s biology department offers sophisticated tools to dive into hands-on science and explore life in all its forms.
The Occidental College Department of Biology is housed within the three-floor Bioscience building. The structure contains the research labs of nine tenure-track faculty members, seven teaching labs, a large seminar room, a stockroom, a cold room, two environmental chambers, and a genomics center. The adjacent Anderson Center for Environmental Sciences is a recently remodeled building that houses the bird and mammal collection of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology as well as the Vantuna Research Group, whose resources include research vessels for nearshore marine studies and SCUBA diving.
Other facilities in our department include a state-of-the-art genomics center, a newly funded center for imaging and data analysis, a greenhouse, a zebrafish facility, a 6,000-gallon recirculating seawater system, and fully equipped molecular biology laboratories. Because of Oxy’s proximity to the Mojave Desert; the seacoast; and the Santa Monica, San Gabriel, and San Bernardino Mountains, we are also ideally suited for field and laboratory studies of environmental biology.
