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September 2009 sees the culmination, in limestone, wood and glass, of an ambitious Texas A&M University project that has been years in the making—the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB).
Boasting some 220,000 gross square feet of naturally lit space that will hold laboratories, offices, two atriums and an auditorium, the imposing ILSB lies in the heart of the Texas A&M campus, facing Old Main, Simpson Drill Field and the MSC – Rudder complex to the south.
The three-story edifice, which blends A&M’s traditional
architectural styles with practical yet elegant 21st century lines, will
accommodate some of the university’s most visionary and talented scientific
investigators from a host of different, yet complementary, disciplines.
True to the chosen name and purpose of the building, the ILSB’s 30-plus laboratories will be the setting for a number of interdisciplinary research efforts that are vaulting in their ambition and scale.
The biologists, chemists, psychologists, computer scientists, statisticians and other researchers occupying the ILSB will focus on several key interdisciplinary efforts: behavioral and structural neuroscience, structural biology and bioinformatics to begin with, and other interdisciplinary initiatives to follow.
The building will also house several core facilities that are critically important to progress in the resident researchers’ programs. Core facilities in the ILSB will include the Microscopy and Imaging Center, the X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory, and the Laboratory for Biological Mass Spectrometry.
The $100 million Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building—one of the largest single construction projects in the history of Texas A&M University—is poised to be the setting for still more superlatives, as the first-class researchers housed in the facility forge progress in some of the most complex and challenging realms of inquiry in the life sciences.
