The research infrastructure remains tied to the accredited faculty, distributed across different Departments and buildings of UFRPE, in addition to the multi-user laboratories of the Research Support Center (CENAPESQ) at UFRPE, the Central Laboratories of the Garanhuns Academic Unit (CENLAG/UFAPE), and the Food Science and Technology Laboratory (LACTAL) at UFAPE. Besides the laboratories, UFRPE also provides the Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital, an Experimental Farm, and the structure of the advanced campus known as the Tapacurá Ecological Station (EET), located in the municipality of São Lourenço da Mata, where practical classes for undergraduate and graduate programs from UFRPE are conducted. The EET consists of three Conservation Units (UC) of Atlantic Forest, totaling approximately 400 hectares of forest: Mata do Alto da Buchada (100 ha), Mata do Camocim (200 ha), and Mata do Toró (100 ha). The EET has an administrative headquarters, as well as accommodation for faculty and undergraduate and graduate students. The laboratories used for practical classes and the execution of experiments by master's and doctoral students in the two concentration areas are equipped with equipment acquired through CAPES (Pro-equipment), FINEP, FACEPE, and CNPq grants. The great effort of our teaching staff, in addition to institutional support, has been decisive for these acquisitions. All research projects are carried out using the infrastructure available in the Program, highlighting the following laboratories:
Histology Laboratory: Equipped with a microtome for paraffin and historesin, cryostat, water bath, and ovens for embedding and drying slides, as well as electronic precision balances (analytical and semi-analytical); microscopy room containing: bright field and phase contrast photomicroscope, immunofluorescence, light box, and stereomicroscopes. Practical classroom with 20 binocular microscopes, plus 1 microscope attached to a TV camera; microscope with image analysis system, refrigerators, and freezers. Rooms for faculty with computers for supervisors and undergraduate and graduate students. We have 50 microscopes to strengthen undergraduate and graduate education.
Immunopathology Laboratory: Equipped with microtomes for paraffin and historesin, histological hood, water bath, and ovens for embedding and drying slides, digital photomicroscope, microscope with image analysis system, biochemical analyzer, water bath and ovens for embedding and drying slides, electronic precision balances (analytical and semi-analytical), pH meters, laminar flow hood, freezer, refrigerators.
Physiology and Pharmacology Laboratory: Equipped with a laminar flow hood, centrifuge, temperature-controlled orbital shaker, high vacuum concentrator, turbidity meter, temperature and timer-controlled plate shaker, UV/visible spectrophotometer, inverted field microscopes, electrostimulator, cardiograph, pH meters, electronic precision balance.
Applied Molecular Animal Physiology Laboratory: Equipped with a thermocycler, centrifuge, laminar flow hood, exhaust hood, power supply for electrophoresis, electrophoresis tanks, freezer, refrigerators, photodocumentation system.
Theoretical-Experimental and Computational Biophysics Laboratory: Equipped with three oscilloscopes, 1 function generator, 1 frequency meter, 1 digital signal recorder (electroencephalograph), 1 stereotaxic apparatus, system for generating and capturing electromagnetic fields (coils, voltage generators, teslameters), a high-performance processing computer (workstation) operating in a cluster with 7 other computers, refrigerator and freezer, 2 pH meters, 2 drying ovens, 1 bacteriological incubator.
Bioactive Technology Laboratory (LABTECBIO): Equipped with a laminar flow hood, chemical hood, lyophilizer, stirrers with and without temperature control, temperature-controlled orbital stirrer, complete horizontal and vertical electrophoresis systems (mono and bidimensional), water purification system (deionizer and ultrapure water), pH meter, BOD, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, Microplate Reader, simple water bath and one with a refrigeration system, Centricon concentrator, centrifuges with and without refrigeration, freezer, refrigerators, microbiological and sterilization ovens, autoclave, 1.5L bioreactor with temperature and aeration control, and AKTA Avanti FPLC purification system.
Parasitic Diseases Laboratory: Equipped with refrigerated centrifuge, Elisa plate centrifuge, centrifuge, oven at 200ºC, oven up to 100ºC, oven up to 60ºC, freezer at -80ºC, vertical freezers, horizontal freezers, cell culture oven, spectrophotometer, transilluminator, laminar flow hood, immunofluorescence microscope, distiller, Elisa reader, BOD oven, microscopes, thermocycler, electrophoresis device, balances, digital balance, stereoscopic microscope, camera attached to the microscope, centrifuge for Eppendorf-type tubes, water bath, magnetic stirrer.
Laboratory of Transmissible Diseases (Bacterial and Fungal Diseases): Equipped with a refrigerated centrifuge, complete ELISA equipment with plate washers, refrigerated centrifuges, drying and bacteriological incubators, an incubator at 100ºC, an incubator up to 60ºC, vertical and horizontal freezers, cell culture incubator (CO2), spectrophotometer, transilluminators, laminar flow hoods, immunofluorescence microscopes, distiller, Elisa reader, optical microscopes, immunofluorescence microscopes, real-time thermocycler, electrophoresis tanks, DNA extraction equipment, DNA and protein quantifiers, digital balance, inverted light microscope, camera attached to a microscope, refrigerated centrifuge for Eppendorf-type tubes, water bath, magnetic stirrer, and all the infrastructure of the animal facility for in vivo studies with microorganisms.
Institutional Animal Facility: With a capacity for 400 animals, it currently uses Rattus norvegicus, Wistar variety and Swiss albino for drug trial studies. Recently, the Pro-rectory of Research and Postgraduate Studies and the central administration of UFRPE committed to an institutional budget allocation (R$ 4,000,000.00) for the design and construction of a new Institutional Animal Facility, with international standards for breeding and experimentation with certified strains of rats and mice.
Research Support Center (CENAPESQ): At this research center of UFRPE, there are four multi-user laboratory centers installed (analytical, microscopy, complex and multi-environment realities, agro-industrial biotechnology), with an important set of high-complexity equipment such as atomic absorption spectrophotometer, high-resolution liquid chromatographs, gas chromatograph coupled to a mass spectrometer, ultrafreezer, 7 L bioreactor with associated temperature and aeration control, ultracentrifuge, Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer, potentiostat, and ten high-performance computers to study the dynamics of complex systems.
Central Laboratories of UFAPE (CENLAG): Located at the Federal University of Agreste Pernambucano, the Analytical Central CENLAG features a UV/Vis spectrophotometer, a chromatograph for high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), a computing room, potentiometer, microbiological incubators, conventional drying incubator with forced ventilation, autoclave, and all equipment for total nitrogen analysis. The microscopy room contains 10 microscopes, distiller, ultrapure water purifier, bioreactor/fermenter, climatic chambers (BOD), temperature-controlled orbital stirrer, elemental analyzer, bench centrifuges and ultracentrifuges, ice machines, laminar flow chambers, chemical hoods, lyophilizer, and the laboratory building area is 600m².
Food Science and Technology Laboratory (LACTAL): Located at UFAPE, the Food Science and Technology Laboratory (LACTAL) was inaugurated in 2018 and has 15 laboratories, each with an area of 70m². Built as a multi-user facility, it has specific laboratories for food analysis, microbiology, milk and dairy products, meat and derivatives, fish and eggs, cereals and baking, fruits and vegetables, chemistry, computer laboratories, refrigeration, instrumentation and control, sensory analysis, food microbiology, food biochemistry, unit operations, beverages, and packaging. All laboratories are being equipped with the necessary resources for proper functioning. In particular, the Food Biochemistry laboratory has a laminar flow chamber, thermostatic bath, climatic chamber, reverse osmosis water purification system, pH meter, conductivity meter, centrifuge, stirrers, UV/Vis spectrophotometer connected to a computer, and is already operational with faculty from the PPGBA.
Laboratory of Health and Technology of Goats and Sheep (Financed with FINEP Resources): Located within the Department of Veterinary Medicine, this Central Laboratory has eight laboratories distributed across different areas such as Molecular Biology and Serology, Bioactives and Medicinal Plants, Clinical Pathology, Reproductive Biotechnology, Inspection of Animal-Origin Products, Animal Pathology, Metabolic and Mineral Diseases. These laboratories support several master's and doctoral students from PPGBA and have sufficient infrastructure for the development of theses and dissertations in various research lines of the Program.
Laboratory of Herpetological and Paleoherpetological Studies (LEHP): A scientific reference collection of amphibians and reptiles from Northeast Brazil, with over 6,000 recorded animals; 14 collection cabinets; 4 air conditioning units; 4 computers; 1 printer; 2 vertical freezers; 1 horizontal freezer; 1 refrigerator; 6 binocular magnifying glasses; 1 magnifying glass with a pass-through; 1 light box; 1 microscope; 1 incubator; 1 centrifuge; 1 microtome; 1 necropsy table; 2 thermohygrometers; general glassware; reagents.
Laboratory of Ecophysiology and Animal Behavior (LECA): The Laboratory of Ecophysiology and Animal Behavior – LECA/UFRPE is subdivided into an area for the production of nanopharmaceuticals, equipped with 2 orbital shakers capable of preparing over 18 simultaneous preparations, an ultra-turrax, ultrasonic bath, potentiometer, spectrophotometer, centrifuge, precision analytical balances, sterilization incubators, microscopes with attached cameras and software for particle analysis, water distiller, and a -20 °C freezer, among others. This laboratory also functions as an Animal Facility for Aquatic Animals registered on the CIUCA-CONCEA platform, the Regional Council of Veterinary Medicine, and is authorized to operate by the Ethics Committee on the Use of Animals - CEUA of UFRPE. The aquatic animal facility is qualified for toxicological testing with fish, containing over 100 aerated aquariums equipped with filters, thermostats, digital oxymeters, and 27 incubators for fish maintenance. The laboratory also has infrastructure for the proper disposal of biological material, interconnected with UFRPE's disposal system for incineration. Additionally, it has an advanced oxidative process reactor for the degradation of chemical compounds.
Laboratory of Parasitology (LAPAR): Equipped with 5 binocular light field microscopes and 1 phase contrast microscope, 3 binocular stereo microscopes, 1 trinocular stereo microscope with a light chamber, a photodocumentation system, exhaust hood, refrigerated centrifuge, 2 drying and sterilization incubators, 1 bacteriological incubator, precision electronic balance (analytical), vertical freezers, and refrigerators. There is also a room with computers and internet access for undergraduate and graduate students. The laboratory has a scientific collection (Parasitological Collection - LAPAR) of parasites from domestic and wild animals and humans.
Laboratory of Genetics, Biochemistry, and DNA Sequencing (GENOMA): Equipped with a laminar flow hood, DNA workstation, automatic thermocycler, bench centrifuges, sets of automatic pipettors, water bath, semi-analytical balance, water distiller, Milli-Q water purifier, automatic sequencer, electrophoresis system, ultraviolet light source, gel photography system, refrigerators, freezers, and ultrafreezer.
Laboratory of Viruses of Domestic Animals (LAVIAN): LAVIAN has suitable infrastructure to develop activities related to teaching and research, possessing the necessary equipment for establishing primary cultures of animal cells. This includes processes for maintenance, scaling, and freezing secondary and permanent cell lines, such as a class BII biological safety cabinet, CO2 atmosphere incubator, inverted microscope with photographic camera, and a container with liquid nitrogen. It also has a centrifuge and freezer for processing viral antigens, as well as essential diagnostic tools such as real-time and conventional PCR. Additionally, it has an animal facility registered on the CIUCA/CONCEA platform and the Regional Council of Veterinary Medicine.
The PPGBA also maintains an institutional agreement with the Keizo Asami Immunopathology Laboratory - LIKA/UFPE and uses its infrastructure to carry out some research projects. LIKA is located on the UFPE campus, occupying an area of 1,168 m² in a building adjacent to the Aggeu Magalhães Research Center of FIOCRUZ. Among other facilities, LIKA has and shares with PPGBA the following equipment: Fermenter (5L) New Brunswick; Scanning Electron Microscope (JEOL); Ultracentrifuge (HITACHI); High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography Chromatograph; HPCL/FPLC AKTA (AMERSHAM/BIOSCIENCE); 2D Electrophoresis System (AMERSHAM/BIOSCIENCE); MALDI-TOF System (AMERSHAM/BIOSCIENCE); Microarray (Applied Precision); Visible/UV Spectrophotometer (HITACHI); library; auditorium with teleconference system (40 seats); auditorium for 250 people.