The Biology department is housed in Johnson Hall of Science, which it shares with the Chemistry and Psychology departments. Most of the offices, classrooms, and laboratories of the Biology department are located on the first and second floors, including suites for neuroscience and biochemistry and molecular biology.

The Biology Department has specialized laboratories for microbiology, cell biology, tissue culture, molecular biology, physiology, anatomy, neuroscience, ecology, and aquatic biology and ecology. In addition, the department maintains a green house, animals rooms, a radiation laboratory complex that we shared with the Physics department, and a museum containing collections of fungi, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates.

Our General Biology laboratories are equipped for studies from the subcellular to ecosystem levels of biological complexity. Each semester the General Biology students conduct independent projects using research grade equipment.

Many SLU biology courses take advantage of the natural "outdoor laboratories" of bogs, marshes, wetlands, rivers, forests and mountains that are near the St. Lawrence campus. In addition, students collaborate with faculty on North Country research projects that represent the Integrated Science Education Initiative (ISEI). ISEI recently built the Wachtmeister Field Station to support faculty-student research at a site adjacent to campus.