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Department of Exercise Science
916-752-2540
The Adult Fitness Program serves as an educational laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students en-gaged in advanced study of the role of exercise and nutrition in the management of optimal physiological function. Basic and clinical research studies focus on cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic functions. The program emphasizes risk reduction for cardiovascular disease and development of cardiorespiratory endurance. Studies stress fitness, relaxation, and weight reduction and control through appropriate diet and exercise programs that are individually prescribed after extensive medical and physiological testing.
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College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
916-752-1610
The California Agricultural Experiment Station has branches in Davis, Riverside and Berkeley. The Davis branch includes 500 faculty in more than 30 departments in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Division of Biological Sciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine. In addition to laboratory facilities, it has approximately 3,000 acres devoted to agricultural research in the areas of experimental crops, orchards and animal facilities. The Experiment Station facilitates research in agricultural production, food processing, nutrition, animal care and disease prevention, consumer sciences and community development and environmental quality, with emphasis on resource conservation and management, water and soil pollution and regional planning.
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West House of Child and Family Study Center
916-752-2888
The Center for Child and Family Studies is a research, teaching and demonstration laboratory of the Division of Human Development and Family Studies in the Department of Human and Community Development. At the laboratory, students enrolled in Human Development courses develop observational techniques and participate with peers, children, parents and professionals in a fully integrated laboratory of developmental programs for young children. Students study theories of development in a naturalistic setting. Students link theory to principles of interaction and develop a recognition and respect for individual differences. Selected undergraduate students participate in faculty and graduate student research at the laboratory.
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Leo M. Chalupa, Director
1544 Newton Ct., Davis
916-757-8708; Fax: 916-757-8827
The Center for Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary unit that serves as the focal point for the study of the neurosciences at UC Davis. Faculty affiliated with the center are from 13 departments and sections. The center sponsors a seminar series, conferences and symposia, distributes a quarterly newsletter, provides research space for center members and supports graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and distinguished visitors.
Faculty and students are engaged in the study of brain mechanisms responsible for normal human cognitive and perceptual processes. A core group of cognitive neuroscientists uses various imaging techniques and electrophysiological techniques to study both the normal and lesioned cortex to increase their understanding of how the normal brain produces behavior. Four faculty members use animal models to understand how information is processed in the cortex.
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1323 Academic Surge
916-754-9489
This program aims to help focus Division of Natural Resources (DANR) research and extension on high priority natural resource issues in California, coordinate and facilitate connections among existing DANR academic staff and programs, increase collaboration between DANR academics and other UC and non-UC programs and experts, and increase programmatic links between DANR and state and federal agencies with natural resource management responsibilities in California.
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9 Hutchison Hall
916-752-0284
The Facility for Advanced Instrumentation is a training and research center where students, faculty and staff have access to major scientific instruments. An electron microscope laboratory houses scanning and transmission electron microscopes with x-ray microanalytical capabilities and an atomic force microscope. A mass spectrometer laboratory consists of a research-grade GC/MS, a high resolution instrument; a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer, and an HPLC/MS equipped with electrospray ionization for analysis of proteins and peptides. The facility also coordinates access to additional instruments located in other departments on campus.
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TB 33
916-752-7516
The Food Intake Laboratory supports predoctoral and postdoctoral research in nutrition and behavior, emphasizing studies on the control of food intake and the nature of the factors that govern feeding choices. The laboratory promotes collaborative research involving the roles of metabolic, psychological, neurochemical, hormonal, gender, genetic and sensory inputs in the feeding behavior of experimental animals.
The Health Sciences Research Laboratories are biological science facilities with research staff and assistance for faculty, staff and students.
Animal Surgery Laboratory
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Buildings H and J--ARS
916-752-7756
Animal Surgery Laboratory provides facilities in compliance with NIH/AAALAC standards for researchers who perform both survival and non-survival experimental animal surgeries.
Biochemistry and Special Instrumentation Laboratory
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TB 161
916-752-0320
This central facility provides investigators access to certain common but expensive laboratory equipment. Equipment includes ultracentrifuges and high-speed centrifuges with rotors, scintillation and gamma counters, UV/VIS spectrophotometers, densitometers, Betaplate and Elisa readers.
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164 Hickey Gym
916-752-0965/ 916-754-8675
The Human Performance Laboratory houses equipment for the study of blood and muscle chemistry and enzymology, metabolism and energetics, muscle mechanics and electromyography, movement kinetics and kinematics, body composition and anthropometry, cardiorespiratory function during exercise in a controlled environment, control and acquisition of motor skills and the psychosocial aspects of human performance. The laboratory has Apple Macintosh and IBM microcomputers that can be used for data collection, reduction, graphing and statistical analysis as well as for biomechanical, physiological systems and human performance modeling.
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2223 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
916-752-2295; fax: 916-752-4263
The Davis Humanities Institute organizes interdisciplinary research seminars open to graduate students and faculty and promotes creative exchanges between the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences. Its fellowship program enables campus fellows and distinguished visitors to participate in year-long seminars on designated themes. The seminar theme in 1997-98 will be "Communities of Belief." The institute also sponsors distinguished visiting lecturers, supports interdisciplinary research clusters and a graduate student research assistantship program, co-sponsors lectures with other departments, organizes a Friday noon series of talks and films entitled "Problems and Paradigms," produces a calendar of events and publishes a newsletter, Humanities at Davis.
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Richard L. Lander
325 Physics/Geology Building
916-752-1780
This institute conducts research that uses the unique facilities at national and international accelerator laboratories, particularly the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Enrico Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Japanese accelerator laboratory (KEK) and the German laboratory (DESY) in Hamburg. High-energy particle physics is the dominant area of research. The institute also promotes seminars and lectures by visiting researchers at individual campuses.
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104 Mann Laboratory
916-752-1410; fax: 916-752-4554
Plant scientists in the Louis K. Mann Laboratory direct their physiological, biochemical and molecular research to improving the quality of harvested fruits, vegetables and seeds. The five faculty housed in this facility are members of the Department of Vegetable Crops and are assisted by numerous students, postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists. Research ranges from the basic molecular biology of fruit ripening and seed development to practical storage technologies for lightly processed fruits and vegetables. Results are communicated to other researchers and to growers, shippers, marketers and consumers. The facility is equipped with 18 controlled-temperature rooms, seven research laboratories, a teaching laboratory and a conference room and library.
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Office of Research
410 Mrak Hall
916-752-6949
World Wide Web: http://nrs.ucop.edu/
The Davis campus administers seven natural reserves that are available for teaching and research.
The university maintains over 30 reserves throughout the state, many of which are available for teaching and research.
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Medical Sciences 1D
916-752-7677
The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility provides qualified researchers in the biological, medical and physical sciences access to state-of-the-art NMR instrumentation for spectroscopy and imaging. At present, the facility operates six spectrometers of varying purposes and capabilities. Three horizontal magnet bore spectrometers are used for in vivo spectroscopy and imaging of small animals and materials, and in vitro spectroscopy of perfused organs. Two vertical bore spectrometers are used primarily for solution studies of biomolecules, with an additional vertical bore instrument for in vitro studies. All of the spectrometers are multinuclear, and a large variety of high resolution, surface and imaging coils are available for use. The facility also has SUN and Silicon Graphics workstations for off-line data processing and molecular modeling.
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1145 Surge 1
916-752-6228
The Protein Structure Laboratory provides state-of-the-art biotechnological instrumentation for protein sequencing, amino acid analysis, and protein and DNA synthesis and consultation for protein related research. Also available are a micro-protein sample preparation (in-gel and on-membrane digestions) and various analyses (amino acid analysis, sequencing, peptide mappings and MS analysis) for protein identification.
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107 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
916-752-6063
The Social Science Data Service (SSDS) is a unit of the Institute of Governmental Affairs (IGA). SSDS provides consulting, computing and specialized support services to faculty involved in quantitative social science research on the UC Davis campus. SSDS staff provide consulting on a wide range of software used by social scientists and assist with questions regarding the use of SSDS computers, as well as statistical and data-related programming. SSDS manages a UNIX system that provides a platform for quantitative social science computing. Specialized support is available for extramurally funded research projects managed by IGA.
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Student Experimental Farm
916-752-7645
The Student Experimental Farm is an innovative teaching and research facility located on 25 acres of university land just west of the Recreation Pool. Since its inception, the Student Experimental Farm has provided students with unique opportunities to explore alternative agricultural technologies and philosophies through classes, special projects, internships, work study jobs and original research. Because the farm includes several acres of land that have been managed organically for two decades, it provides researchers with a facility for conducting field research into sustainable agriculture.
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132 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
916-752-2320
The UC Agricultural Issues Center, headquartered at Davis, is a universitywide research and outreach unit that draws on expertise from many disciplines. The center is particularly interested in issues such as the impacts of demographic change on agriculture, natural resources and rural life in California; the social, economic and environmental effects of agricultural technologies; food consumption and international trade; and local and national policies that affect Western agriculture or its workers.
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Section of Plant Biology
916-752-1091/0617
The UC Davis Herbarium is used for research in plant systematics and ecology, as well as for public service requests (especially identification of weeds and poisonous plants). The herbarium contains more than 200,000 plant specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and algae. The majority of these specimens are angiosperms (flowering plants), mainly from California, but the collections are worldwide in scope, with strong holdings from North America, Ecuador, Baja California and regions with Mediterranean climate regimes. The herbarium is well known for its collection of weeds and poisonous plants, although it also has world-class collections of grasses, oaks and spurges.
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Horse Bloodtyping Laboratory, Armstrong Tract, 916-752-2211
Cattle Bloodtyping Laboratory, Armstrong Tract, 916-752-7383
The laboratory is recognized for its pioneering research on animal blood groups and biochemical polymorphisms. Current research activities include gene mapping and discovery and screening of DNA markers and biochemical polymorphisms. Knowledge acquired is applied to detecting disease relationships, parentage and solving questionable parentage cases arising from the breeding of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas and dogs. The laboratory continues to utilize red cell, serum and karyotyping for diagnosis of clinical diseases.
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UC Davis VMTRC
18830 Road 112
Tulare, CA 93274
209-688-1731
VMTRC is a clinical teaching and research center within the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. The center offers a forum for teaching, research and service programs for D.V.M. students, M.P.V.M. students, graduate students, residents, university faculty and visiting researchers interested in food animal medicine. VMTRC programs emphasize herd health medicine, epidemiology and preventive medicine, production management, agricultural economics, environmental protection, food safety and animal welfare.
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1323 Academic Surge
916-752-8070
The center supports water-related research in such areas as agricultural and biological sciences, economics, engineering, history, geography, law, meteorology, physical sciences and political science. Research interests include drought responses, aquatic ecosystem structure and function, water resource systems engineering, economic evaluation of water development and conservation, political strategy in water resources development, environmental and energy relationships in water resources management, watershed hydrology, ground water use, soil and land use management in relation to water resources use, and maintenance and improvement of water quality. The center has an annual call for proposals in fall quarter.
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1323 Academic Surge
916-752-8070
The center coordinates activities among the university's research and extension programs and stimulates research into conservation, management and utilization of wildland resources with a view toward the optimum present and future uses of wildlands. Projects focus on such topics as habitat conservation, assessment and management of timber resources and old-growth forests, and development of a system for evaluating California's environmental resources. The center increases the awareness of the university's research and extension programs related to wildlands and serves as liaison between the university and state and federal agencies and other organizations concerned with wildland resources and problems.
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Marilyn Olmstead
Department of Chemistry
916-752-6668
The X-Ray Crystallographic Facility is located in the Department of Chemistry. There are three automated four-circle diffractometers. One of these is equipped with a Siemens 15-kW rotating anode X-ray source. There are also traditional Weissenberg and precession cameras. All diffraction equipment is fitted with low-temperature (liquid nitrogen) attachments. In addition, the facility contains a Silicon Graphics Indigo 2, two VAX-station 3000 series computers, microcomputers, graphics terminals and multi-pen plotters. The laboratory is known for pioneering work in low-temperature crystallography, for the development of rapid structure determination methods, and techniques for handling reactive materials.
UC Davis 1997-98 Online General Catalog. Posted August 1, 1997.
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