Research Facilities

Michigan State University is a major public research university and is renown for both its basic and applied biological research. The combination of agricultural, health-related and industrial research along with fundamental studies involving cell and molecular biology make MSU a stimulating campus.

To facilitate these research programs, the campus has a broad array of supporting technical services and instrumentation.


The flow cytometer is a laser based optical instrument that analyzes a population of cells for biochemical parameters in seconds.

These include:

Center for Electron Optics
DNA Sequencing Facility
Macromolecular Structure Facility
Max T. Rogers NMR Facility
MSU-NIH Mass Spectrometry Facility
Flow Cytometry Facility
Macromolecular Computing Facility
Confocal Microscopy Facility
X-Ray Crystallography Facility

The University's Science Library is maintained in the centrally located main library. Numerous departmental science libraries are distributed across campus and serve the special interests of various fields. These branch libraries provide convenient reading rooms where subscriptions for up to 50 popular journals are maintained. Students have access to modern computer facilities that provide state of the art research support and worldwide communications with other scientists.

Analytical Core Facilities Directory

Center for Electron Optics
B4C CIPS Building
Phone: (517) 353-8798
Director: Stanely L. Flegler
web site (opens new window): http://www.ceo.msu.edu

DNA Sequencing Facility
29 Plant Biology Building
Phone: (517) 353-0854
Fax: (517)353-9168
Contact: Dr. Tom Newman
E-mail: dna@pilot.msu.edu
web site (opens new window): http://genomics.msu.edu/RTSF/DNA_Sequencing.html

Macromolecular Structure, Sequencing and Synthesis Facility
223 Biochemistry Building
Phone: (517) 355-4755
Fax: (517) 353-8638
Contact: Joe Leykam
E-mail: msssf@pilot.msu.edu
web site (opens new window): http://genomics.msu.edu/MSSSF/MSSSF.html

Max T. Rogers NMR Facility
Labs: B-7, B-8, B-10, 240, 538 Chemistry Building
Office: 27 Chemistry Building
Phone: (517) 355-9715 ext 387
Fax: (517) 535-1793
Contact: Dr. Daniel Holmes
E-mail: holmesd5@msu.edu
web site (opens new window):http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/facilities/nmr/

MSU-NIH Mass Spectrometry Facility
I I Biochemistry Building
Phone: (517) 353-0612
Fax: (517) 353-9334
Contact: Beverly Chamberlin
E-mail: chambe16@msu.edu
web site (opens new window): http://genomics.msu.edu/mass_spec/index.html

Flow Cytometry Facility
419 Biochemistry Building
Phone: (517) 353-1536
Contact: Dr. Louis King
E-mail: kingL@msu.edu
web site (opens new window): http://www.bch.msu.edu/facilities/facs/

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Macromolecular Computing Facility
202 Biochemistry Building
Phone: (517) 353-0814
Fax: (517) 353-9334
Contact: Dr. Kaillathe Padmanabhan(Pappan)
E-mail: padmanab@msu.edu
web site (opens new window): http://www.bch.msu.edu/facilities/computer/computer.html

Confocal Microscopy Facility
B7B CIPS
Phone: (517) 353-0837
Contact: Dr. Joanne Whallon
E-mail: whallon@msu.edu
web site (opens new window): http://www.ceo.msu.edu/CLSM.htm

X-Ray Crystallography Facility
401 Chemistry Building
Phone: (517) 355-9715 ext 217
Fax: (517) 353-1793
Contact: Dr. Donald L. Ward
E-mail: ward@cem.msu.edu
web site (opens new window): http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Facilities/Crystallography/crys_serv.shtml