Core Facility Type

The Cell Culture Facility, located in 336 Barker Hall, supports research by providing cell cultures (mammalian and insect), media, supplies and expertise on a recharge basis for more than 70 different laboratories on and off the main campus. The Facility provides cell cultures for researchers to take to their labs for experiments, provides media and materials for checkout, and also allows use of laminar flow hoods, incubators and microscope for researchers who are using cells provided by the Facility, to use on site. We also work with off-site companies.

Provides Drosophila food on a recharge basis to over 20 labs on campus and at LBNL. Food is dispensed to narrow polystyrene or wide resin vials, and to 60z. or 8 oz. polypropylene bottles.

Provides bacterial, yeast, C. elegans (worms), Drosophila, or any specialty media you have a protocol for on a recharge basis to over 20 labs on campus and at LBNL.

On-Call Glass Washers/Laboratory Helpers are deployed to five buildings across campus on a recharge basis to replace career Laboratory Assistants who are on leave or vacation.

Greenhouse, growth chamber, lath house, and field space for plant and environmental science research. Resources include mist propagation beds and rooms, work space, supplemental lighting, and biosafety, temperature, and lighting controls. Experienced staff provides horticultural consultation, supplies, plant monitoring and watering, and pest control. The facility is available to UC Berkeley and LBL affiliates and, on a limited basis, to outside users.

Established in 2003, the School of Public Health Biorepository collects, stores, and tracks high quality biospecimens collected for long term studies of human health and disease in children and adults. Sample handling includes processing, aliquotting, and shipping human biospecimens. We house over 500,000 biological and environmental samples from over 40 ongoing and completed research projects in our -80⁰C deep freezers and nitrogen tanks including blood, urine, hair, teeth, dust, DNA, RNA, and buccal cells.