Centers for Instruction & Research

The Centers affiliated with Integrative Biology are more than just research facilities.

These Centers are important elements of our teaching program and are places for developing new techniques and approaches for research and instruction. They are places for collaboration and innovation.

We invite you to learn more about the research and instructional Centers affiliated with the Department:

 

California Biodiversity Center (CBC)

The CBC fosters collaborations among partners studying changes in California's biological diversity, past, present, and future.

Web: http://cbc.berkeley.edu/

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Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research (CIBER)

CIBER is leading the development of a new field of Integrative Systems Biomechanics and training the next generation of integrative biologists. Additionally, CIBER will innovate methods to extract principles in biology that inspire novel design in engineering and train the next generation of scientists and engineers to collaborate in mutually beneficial relationships.

Web: http://ciber.berkeley.edu/

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Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry (CSIB)

The CSIB is an analytical facility established as an education, research, training and service unit, providing high precision, state-of-the-art, instrumentation for analyzing the stable isotope composition of a diverse array of materials.

Web: http://ib.berkeley.edu/groups/biogeochemistry/

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