The Department has eight teaching and six research laboratories, well equipped with instrumentation for techniques in physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, genetics and field biology.

The Keck Molecular Biology Laboratory is equipped with modern equipment for teaching and research having most recently acquired a Licor DNA Sequencer. Research labs for work in molecular cell biology, genetics, comparative anatomy, spider ecology and botany actively involve many undergraduate Biology majors in the research process.

The Department's upper division teaching laboratories, renovated in the summer of 1998, include a marine and field biology lab, a physiology lab, a genetics lab, a comparative anatomy/mammalogy lab and a microbiology, cell biology and development lab.

The Department has a wide variety of field equipment and a large specimen collection. We maintain a marine field station on the Sea of Cortez in Baja California, Mexico. Further, the University's location in Los Angeles allows easy access to a diverse range of ecological habitats (desert, mountains, offshore islands, chaparral, rocky coast, beach, salt marsh, etc.) for field studies.

A broad array of computer facilities are readily available to every student. An NSF grant was awarded to the Department for equipping a science computer laboratory with PCs, Macintoshes, Internet access, and multimedia equipment. That lab is available to all LMU students in science courses.