Hockmeyer Hall construction August 8th, 2008
The new facility will be named for the project's lead donors, Wayne and Mary Hockmeyer, and provide a beautiful, inspirational, and state-of-the-art environment, including:
- Centralized shared instrumentation pods for X-ray diffraction and biophysical measurements of macromolecular dynamics;
- Customized, environmentally-isolated space for specialized instrumentation and facilities, including electron cryo-microscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy;
- A BSL-3 biohazards containment laboratory suite, with integrated, shared, major instrumentation for the growth of pathogens, including pathogenic viruses. (Also in the wing will be an environmentally-isolated suite for electron microscopes, including the current FEG200 and FEG300 cryo-microscopes, and new space for the next generation of Helium-cooled imaging cryo-microscopes connected to the BSL-3 laboratory);
- Research laboratories and office space designed to facilitate interactions and collaborations among faculty, postdoctoral scientists, and students;
- Clusters for computational biology to support research and teaching, including state-of-the-art imaging instrumentation and a theater for the projection of three-dimensional molecular structures.
Time lapse movie of Hockmeyer Hall construction