CVB Campus Overview
Our main research facilities include purpose built labs for genetics, infectious disease, and nutritional research, while also offering flexible lab space for any sort of biological research. We will hapily help re-configure space to accomodate any lab based research needs. A full listing of lab services and equipment can be found here. In addition to our Biological Lab Facilities, CVB offers a purpose built Design and Engineering Laboratory Suite featuring a large design space with ample ideation resources, a microelectornics shop, machine shop and drone launch complex. In addition to it's research labs in 2020 the SOS biodiversity building was completed with collections from across Madagascar, and semi-private office space for up to 10 research teams. WIFI is available throughout the campus and we also offer physical data drop locations for truely fast speeds allowing virtual conferencing and data collaboration in realtime.
In addition to our lab based research facilities, CVB offers computer labs, classrooms and lecture halls with modern A/V resources ranging in size from four to two hundred hundred people and an outdoor ampitheater able to seat 500. We are able to accomodate from 1 to 500 / meal in our dining facilities which offer three course lunches and dinnners prepared by our cheif. For accomodations, researchers can stay in our 51 private or shared dorm accomodations, our campsite able to sleep 300 - all featuring hot showers and modern bathrooms. The campus is rounded out by all necessary logistics, transportation, gear rental, and administrative resources to conduct all ambitions of research and is manned year round by a full time staff of 138, many of whom are seasoned scientists and research technicians able to advise and aid any research project within Madagascar. All of this is found adjacent (500ft) from the Ranomafana National Park a 41,000ha rainforest and UNISECO World Heritage Site and home to 2 species of terrestrial carnavour, 15 species of lemur, 120 species of birds, 62 species of reptile and amphibian, and countelsss variety of insects, spiders, and flora.