Facilities | Equipment

Biological Chemistry @ FCT/UNL group research is supported by a wide range of techniques, namely:
       • NMR, EPR, Mössbauer and UV-visible spectroscopies
       • stopped-flow
       • bioelectrochemistry
       • proteomics
       • anaerobic sample preparation and assaying
       • common biophysical techniques
       • culture cells growth
       • molecular biology
       • protein purification
       • computational biochemistry

Details in http://sites.fct.unl.pt/biologicalchemistryatfctunl/pages/facilities-equipment

BIOSCOPE Group @ FCT/UNL group research is supported by a wide range of techniques, namely:
       • Fluorescence and UV-visible spectroscopies
       • TEMPRO Single Photon Counting
       • proteomics
       • Mass Spectrometry MALDI-TOF-TOF UltraFlex
       • 96 well-plate Microplate readers CLARIO Start with monochromators, spectrometer, and filters
       • common biophysical techniques
       • 1D and 2D-SDS Page Gel Electrophoresis Devices
       • MALDI Spotter SunChrom System
       • PROPIC II Imaging and picking

Details in http://www.bioscopegroup.org/index.php/proteomics-services

Centro de Química Estrutural (IST-UL) group is supported by a wide range of techniques, namely:
       • NMR, EPR, UV-visible, circular dichroism spectroscopies and several types of photochemical instrumentation
       • GC-MS, LC-MS. Soon we will have an electrospray quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometer
       • Several single crystal and powder X-ray difractometers
       • Several instruments for liquid and gas chromatography
       • Facilities for drying solvents
       • Facilities to work in strict absence of oxygen
       • Several types of electrochemical instrumentation
       • Atomic Force Microscopy Instrumentation

More information at http://cqe.ist.utl.pt/facilities/facilities.php

Grupo de Química e Bioquímica Teórica e Computacional (FCUP) is supported by the cluster QtRex (computational facility). At the moment, the cluster counts with 1504 CPU cores and 2 GPU nodes of 16 cores

ITQB (UNL)  groups research is supported by an excellent infrastructure and a wide range of techniques:
       • CERMAX national NMR center
       • EPR, RR, SERR, CD, FTIR, Mössbauer and UV-Visible spectroscopies
       • X-ray crystallography (proteins and small molecules)
       • Computational biology cluster
       • Mass spectrometry and other analytical services
       • Surface Plasmon Resonance and ITC
       • DLS with zeta potential
       • Know-how and facilities for recombinant metalloprotein expression and purification
       • Anaerobic glove boxes for protein purification, spectroelectrochemistry and crystallization
       • Stopped-flow
       • Proteomics

Universidade do Minho (Braga) groups research is supported by a wide range of techniques:
       • RMN (300 and 400 MHz)
       • HPLC-MS
       • GC-MS
       • Analisador elementar

Information added by the participant research groups.