Infrastructure:
PPGFQM faculty and students are distributed in four units: two in the Center for Health Sciences (Centro de Ciências da Saúde - CCS), namely: i. Institute of Biomedical Sciences and ii. Institute of Research on Natural Products; and other two in Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ). PPGFQM faculty coordinates each research lab using the best of their infrastructure to develop the student’s thesis and dissertation research projects under ideal conditions. PPGFQM has multipurpose units with medium and large sized lab equipment that allows transversal projects to be conducted.
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The following is a list of PPGFQM medium or large sized lab equipments:
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"Patch-clamp" and "voltage-clamp" amplifiers for electrophysiology
Isolated organs amplifiers, transducers and baths
Flash EA 1112 CHN Analyzer Series – Thermo
FEMTO UV 800XI Spectrophotometer
Shimadzu DSC-60
SpectraMax M5 – Molecular Devices
Infrared Smart ITR Thermo Scientific
Shimadzu Prominence HPLC UV
Peak Scientific NM32LA Nitrogen Generator (Bruker’s Mass)
Shimadzu Prominence HPLC UV/Fluorescence Detector
Milli Gehaka Master All
AutoLab - Flexible System with PC automation for Jacketed Reactor from 100mL to 5L
NOVA Instruments Water Bath
Novatecnica-Biovera Dubnoff NT232 Bath
Biotage FLASH Isolera One ISO-1SW Chromatography Instrument
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (Shimadzu; TA-60WS)
HITACHI CR21GII Centrifuge
Centrivap Centrifugal Concentrator connected to Centrivap Cold Trap and Lab Vacuum Pump (Labconco)
Beckman Scintillation
Merk Muse Cell Analyzer (Flow Cytometry)
Accuri Flow Cytometer
BD Bioscience Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer
Centrivap Vacuum Concentrator, Cold Trap and Lab Vacuum Pump (Labconco)
Tri Carb 2810 TR Liquid Scintillation Counter
Automated Cell Counter (Invitrogen- Countess II FL, by Termo Fisher Scientific)
SHIMADZU High Performance Liquid Chromatography Equipment with Fluorescence Detection
Biotage Isolera One Medium Slope Chromatography Equipment
FTLA 2000 Infrared Spectrophotometer
UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Bruker Daltonics Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometer
Bruker Daltonics Amazon SL Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer
Behavior analysis instrument: "video-tracking"
Behavior and pain analysis instrument: rotarod, open field, analgesiometer
Structure for clonning, expression and purification of proteins
Thermo scientific series 8000 WJ CO2 greenhouse
FlexStation (Molecular Device)
FlexStation 3 (Molecular devices)
Filtracom Laminar Flow;
Laser Doppler blood flowmeter
Guava® MUSE ® Cell Analyzer (Luminex)
UltraCleaner unique ultrasonic cleaner
Molecular Devices – Spectramax M5 Automated Microplate Reader
High resolution TOF mass
Inverted Biological Microscope
Nikon-Eclipse Ts2 Inverted microscope coupled with 1 camera and 1 Philips 223V Led monitor
NIKKON TS100, PlusMaze, Von Frei Inverted Phase Microscope;
Nikon® - Eclipse Ts2 Inverted Optical Microscope
Bioval Biological Microscope
Nanalysis NMReader 60Pro;
Gehaka PG1800 pH meter
Anton-Paar Microwave Detector
Hel Automated Reactor
CEM Discover Microwave Detector
Varian 400 MHz MR-400 and 500 MHz VNMRSYS500 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Instrument
Nanalysis 60 MHz NMR-PRO Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H/13C-NMR)
Bio-Rad RT-PCR
System for assay in microplate, including multi-mode microplate reader
System for high speed and high sensibility imaging microfluorimetry
RT-PCR System
Bio-Rad Trans-blot system; nanodrop lite spectrophotometer
System of fluorescence microscope coupled with a computer and ultrasound for rodents
Telemetry System for continuous hemodynamic parameter registry
UV and White Light Photodocumentation System
Nanospray Sepacore Automated Flash Chromatography
SORVALL Ultracentrifuge (mod. 79008)
BECKMAN Optima XE Ultracentrifuge
IRMECO Ultrafreezer (ECU-4085-5)
PANASONIC Ultrafreezer (MDF-U56V)
Glacier-Nuaire Ultrafreezer - 86 °C
Infrared DIC Videomicroscope for electrophysiology registry
Videomicroscope for intracellular calcium fluorimetry with fura-2
Labnet Vortemp 56
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