Infrastructure and equipment

The group has two laboratories of 53 m² each, one of them dedicated to biological systems and the other dedicated to analytical development and instrumentation.

Below is the list of the available equipments in our lab.

  • MegaBACE 1000 – DNA Sequencing System
  • Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer
  • Shaker Incubator MA420
  • Beckman P/ACE System 5000 + Beckman Couler 488nm Laser Module
  • Beckman MDQ CE System with diode array detector
  • GeneQuant pro (Amersham Biosciences)
  • Thermal cycler for PCR PTC100 Programmable Thermal Controller (MJ Research, Inc)
  • Milli-Q Synthesis (Millipore) water purification system and Millipore RiOs 5 (reverse osmosis)
  • GE two-dimensional gel electrophoresis system for proteomic analysis
  • Photodocumentation system for gels and membranes (blotting)
  • Eppendorf Centrifuge 5415R
  • Centrivap DNA Concentrator LABCONCO
  • Capillary electrophoresis modular equipment
  • Tecnal TE-2000 thermostatic bath
  • Greenhouse for bacteriological culture ECB 1.2 Digital (Odontobrás)
  • Laminar flow bench (Pachane)
  • Laser for laser detection for microsystems (ISBiotech)
  • Spellman high voltage sources
  • C4D capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detectors for microchips