Visit of the researchers from the Brazilian National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA)

Biotechnological Hub of the NIB (BTH-NIB)

The purpose of the investment project BTH-NIB is the assurance of the appropriate infrastructural conditions for the use of research and developmental opportunities in the fields of operation of the NIB.

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Official opening of the Biotechnological Hub of the National Institute of Biology and the presentation of the Zei Awards.

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Construction of the Biotechnological Hub of the NIB is complete

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Agriculture Industry Services

National Institute of Biology is authorized by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment to perform defined tasks of public service for the protection of plants.

Environmental Monitoring and Water-quality Testing Services

The principles of sustainable development and modern environmental protection policy require systematic monitoring of the status of nature and human environment.

Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry Services

We offer bioanalytical laboratory support, toxicology studies, genetic toxicology testing of different samples, residual DNA detection, improvements of production lines through systems biology, and cotoxicology studies.

Research equipment

The big research equipment is used as support to our research and educational activities and serves technological development in co-operation with commercial enterprises.

Training and Related Services

We offer hands on training, consulting and technical auditing, development of protocols and workflows, organization of workshops.

Mutagenicity analysis under GLP

On the NIB we have certified GLP laboratory for testing mutagenicity with bacterial reverse mutation assay, or the Ames test (OECD 471).

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Visit of the researchers from the Brazilian National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA)

From the 6th to 21st of February 2014, the National Institute of Biology hosted Brazilian researchers from the Brazilian National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA).

INPA is the main institution in the Amazon Basin, which is responsible for a wide range of researches and actions that lead to sustainable development of one of the largest and highly vulnerable ecosystems on the planet. Global climate changes are associated with warming of waters, changing hydrology, expansion of hypoxic and anoxic zones, water acidification and increased UV radiation. All these changes are setting new conditions for fish across the globe.

The visit was a part of bilateral cooperation, where we studied the different responses of aquatic organisms to climate changes in tropical and temperate zones. During the visit we performed, together with prof. dr. Adalberto Val and his colleagues, another of experiments in which we determined the influence of various disturbances in the ecosystem (temperature, oxygen) on physiological and biochemical processes of fish in tropical and temperate zones.