Newly renovated and expanded in 2018, the Biology Building houses the UWG Department
of Biology including faculty, staff, and graduate student offices. The 90,000 sq.
ft. building contains Technology-Enhanced Active-Learning (TEAL) classrooms and state-of-the-art
research labs. Surrounding the building are native plantings with pollinator and rain
gardens. Faculty and students also use the 645-acre wooded campus with access to the
Little Tallapoosa River, apiary, and Brock Field Research Site for research and teaching
activities. A list of specific UWG Department of Biology facilities and resources
are included below.
Analytical Physiology Lab: outfitted for detailed, precision measurement of biological tissue samples, as well
as biochemical and hematological analyses.
Animal Collections: contain a wide assortment of vertebrate and invertebrate specimens primarily used
for teaching, but also include approximately 25,000 insect specimens mostly from east
Alabama and west Georgia.
Apiary: approximately 15 honeybee hives and related equipment used as an educational resource
for biology classes, clubs, and community outreach.
Aquatics Lab: offers filtered, temperature-controlled, recirculating animal holding facilities for
freshwater and marine species, with space outfitted for surgical and dissection-based
research.
Bioinformatics Lab: a dedicated computer lab with required software for the pursuit of bioinformatics
research.
Brock Research Field Site: a 5-acre woodland for ecological education and research located 5 miles from UWG at
the confluence of the Little Tallapoosa River and Buffalo Creek.
Cell and Molecular Lab: consists of facilities for research on the molecular, biochemical, and physiological
characterization of green micro-algae and bacteria.
Field Ecology Lab: contains a central prep/storage area and an extensive collection of equipment including
two 4WD trucks, enclosed equipment trailer, and canoes with trailer.
Greenhouses: consist of a central head house for the potting and propagation of plants and four
climatically controlled greenhouses.
Herbarium: collection of about 5,000 vascular plant specimens that are labelled, mounted, and
databased, plus a backlog of 3,500 unmounted and unlabeled specimens of vascular plants
and bryophytes mostly from the west Georgia Piedmont.
Insectary: an environmentally controlled walk-in chamber to rear and maintain agricultural pest
insects for pesticide trials.
Microbiology Lab: consists of two biosafety level II teaching laboratories and one biosafety level
II research laboratory with three sub-labs for the study of virology, immunology,
and bacterial physiology and genetics.
Molecular Ecology and Genomic Analysis (MEGA) lab: a 2,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art research facility for assessment of molecular data
for systematic and ecological research.Neuroscience Lab: facilities for research on neuroscience electrophysiology, histology, and protein
biochemistry.
Proteomics Lab: contains the necessary instrumentation for proteomics and molecular biology including
liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
Terrestrial Ecology Lab: conducts plant (biomass, cover, production, tissue chemistry, and water stress) and
soil (organic matter, pH, and texture) assessments.
Tissue Culture Suite: self-contained unit equipped with biosafety cabinet, centrifuges, inverted microscope
with digital image capture ability, and CO2 incubator.