Bio-Organic University Institute
| 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 |