BIMS

As part of the renovation this summer, our program was asked what equipment we might need to help usher in new teaching and research opportunities for our students.  We were excited to have the opportunity to evaluate what our faculty and students want to do in our labs and to adjust our equipment to allow that work to happen.

Our labs are extremely well supplied with equipment for teaching genetics and molecular biology, so this summer we will add some equipment to help us investigate cell physiology and growth.  One of those items we made sure to include was fermenters.  We ordered five.   These fermenters will allow our students to study growth of microbes.  Maybe they’ll find out how to maximize growth of oil-eating microbes, how to improve antibiotic production by bacteria they isolate (maybe one of them will come up with a new drug?!), or how to modify foods to improve their safety.  Just another example of how BIMS puts learning into action to solve world problems.