Reeve-Irvine Research Center Facility
Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility
The Reeve-Irvine Research Center is housed in the William J. Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility in the UC Irvine Biomedical Research Center. The 78,300-square-foot, four-story facility is home to a core group of prominent scientists who integrate basic and clinical neuroscience to find causes of and cures for devastating neurological diseases, including spinal cord injury, Huntington's Disease, epilepsy, and Alzheimer's Disease.
The Reeve-Irvine Research Center laboratories, about 4,700 square feet, are an open configuration that promotes communication and collaboration between investigators. Space is dedicated to biochemistry/ molecular biology, tissue culture, histology, and immunocytochemistry, as well as light microscopy, image analysis, and morphometry. Neurophysiological experiments and functional assessments are carried out in the animal facility of the GNRF.
The architecture of the building is specifically designed to maximize interactions. Each floor is made up of two major suites of laboratories that are interconnected; there are no walls separating the various laboratory groups.
Shared equipment is located in a central area that includes large open hallways that interconnect the two suites. The offices are arrayed around a central atrium open to all floors, and each floor contains "social areas" where personnel from the different laboratories gather.
In addition to the Reeve-Irvine Research Center, the Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility also houses the Center for Brain Aging and Dementia, and the research laboratories of faculty in the departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pharmacology.