UC Riverside Builds Genomics Building

The University of California, Riverside’s 82,000-sf Genomics Building reached 50 percent completion in March of 2008. The five-level facility broke ground in October of 2006 and will house research laboratories and academic space for the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, which includes the Center for Plant Cell Biology, the Biotechnology Impacts Center and the Center for Disease-Vector Research. The building will house over 200 researchers and staff from the departments of botany and plant sciences, plant pathology, entomology, and neurosciences. The project will also house an auditorium for the presentation of research findings. The project contractor, T.B. Penick, completed structural work on the project two months ahead of schedule. Completion is slated for December of 2008.