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Laboratory-Based Studies on USC's University Park Campus
Our laboratory at the university's main campus - The Allan Hancock Foundation Building of USC's Department of Biological Sciences, where the laboratories of the faculty in the marine biology research group are located.
Part of our group's research laboratory on campus.
Some Laboratory Data:
  1. Physiology - Respiration rate at 15 deg. C during development of the temperate sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, from the embryonic to the pluteus larval stage.

    Pluteus

    Respiration

  2. Biochemistry - Newly-synthesized proteins (35S-Met/Cys labeled) in larvae of the oyster, Crassostrea gigas, separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.

  3. Molecular Biology - Amino acid transporter in 4-day-old embryos of the temperate sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Diagram below shows the deduced amino acid sequence from a cloned cDNA. Proposed structure of the transporter molecule has 12 membrane-spanning domains.