Department of Biology

Facilities

The Department maintains a modern laboratory facility and state-of-the-art equipment to ensure quality instruction and research, in support of the University’s Mission-Vision. It has lecture rooms, laboratory rooms, stockroom staffed by two laboratory technicians. Some instruments used mainly for research and special experiments are housed in the Instrumentation Room. The Department also has the ability to make specimen slides, which are used for education and research. Aside from the laboratory facilities in the Arnoldus Science Complex, graduate students are also provided with more space at the fourth floor of the Arts and Science (AS) Building.

Biological Museum

The Department boasts of a Biological Museum (located at the fourth floor of the AS building) that serves as a repository of more than 50,000 indigenous flora and fauna specimens collected from all over the Philippines. The faunal collection is composed mostly of insects and marine fish and corals. The floral collection (16,500 specimens) consists of woody plants, ferns, mosses, marine algae and sea grasses, and is stored in the Herbarium. Plant pathology and physiology research can also be conducted in a greenhouse.

Marine Research Station

The Marine Research Station in Maribago, Mactan Island, serves as a field facility to conduct research on live marine organisms readily found in the littoral seawaters. The station has modest facility for the conduct of research in Aquaculture, Eco-Physiology and Oceanography. A 50-foot research vessel named M/B Heinrich Schoenig supports sea-based researches. The Marine Station was the site of a UNESCO Marine Biology Training Program in 1976, with participants from seven Asian countries, as well as other training workshops. It was recently the take-off point of the research vessel used for the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 conducted within the waters of Panglao, Tagbilaran, Balicasag, Baclayon, Pamilacan, and Cortes in the province of Bohol.

Service Units

Office, Rm. C239 (AS Building)
Secretary: Glenda M. Bendanillo
Stockroom, Rm. B228 (AS Building)
In-charge: Em-em Dandan and Paul Gabuya
Chemical and Instrumentation Room, Rm. C237 (AS Building)
In-charge: Antonio Tambuli (“Sir Tony”)