Bio-Organic University Institute

Infrastructure / equipment

Name
Infrastructure
Associated area Description and labels Equipment description
Distillation General services Bulk solvent distillation room Steam distillation systems for the purification of bulk organic solvents
Screening Biodiversity Platform Human tumor and healthy cell culture room for the study of the biological activity of extracts and chemical compounds Vertical laminar flow hoods, thermostatically controlled incubator, centrifuges, cell counters, autoclave, spectrophotometer and luminometer, multiwell plate readers, optical microscope, ultra-low temperature freezer
Biocultures Biodiversity Platform Culture room for single-celled organisms (bacteria and microalgae) of marine origin Thermostatically controlled chamber, horizontal laminar flow hood, optical microscope, autoclave, centrifuges, chromatographs, ultra-low temperature freezer
Phytochemistry Biodiversity Platform Extraction, isolation and purification rooms for natural compounds Solvent removal equipment (industrial and benchtop rotary evaporators), Soxhlets of various sizes for solvent extraction of plant material, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipment, chromatotron,
Biomarkers of climate change Biodiversity Platform Lipid analysis and deuterium isotropic recording laboratory Gas chromatograph for the determination of organic compounds, system for measuring isotopic ratios in specific compounds, system for measuring elemental isotopic ratios, equipment for obtaining infrared spectra
Synthesis of chemical libraries Platform of Chemical Libraries of Therapeutic Interest Equipment and infrastructure that allows the synthesis and purification of organic chemical products Microwave reactor, stirring and heating plates, chromatography equipment
Preparation of sheets Materials and Nanomaterials Platform Manufacturing thin slides for microscopic observation, minimizing the use of toxic chemicals and their waste Precision polisher for metals, rocks and other materials, precision cutter for metals, rocks and other materials, radial cutter for rocks and other materials, low temperature oven