Center for Integrative Biological Research (CIBR)
- Spread across all floors of the SI Building, CIBR will bring together UW’s world-recognized
biologists within shared laboratories and collaborative spaces to foster innovation
and convergent research activities addressing some of Wyoming’s most pressing environmental
and health-related challenges. CIBR will support scientific explorations that range
spatial scales from molecules to cells, to organisms, to ecosystems, and to earth
systems and that span temporal scales from seconds to thousands of years. Lab and
field experiments will be paralleled by cutting-edge modeling that also spans this
broad range of spatial and temporal scales to better understand current systems and
model future states.
- CIBR’s design is one with open laboratory and informal spaces which offer shared resources
and natural collision spaces to support current cross-scale collaborations and foster
new and innovative research endeavors. The innovative design, in part, will help drive
increased research success through external granting, publications, and research opportunities
for students.
- CIBR will house world-class research support facilities to enable cutting-edge research
for CIBR faculty as well as all other STEM faculty from across campus. Rooftop greenhouses
and walk-in growth chambers will provide highly controlled growth conditions, enabling
research opportunities not yet realized at UW. The Model Organism Research Facility
(MORF) will provide modern care and procedure facilities for work with small mammals
and amphibians.
