Infrastructure

Didactic and Pedagogical Spaces

Physical infrastructure – Classrooms:

The PFBA has Classrooms (room 18 in the Phytopathology Area) linked to the Institute of Biological and Health Sciences / UFRRJ, properly equipped with a projection screen, computer and Data Show.

Planting Field Areas for Teaching and Research:

An area of four hectares (designated Experimental Field “Oswaldo Carlos de Almeida”) inserted in the Phytopathology Area, Institute of Biological and Health Sciences/UFRRJ is available for Teaching and Research field activities.

Administration

The Program has an administrative infrastructure with a secretary office located in room 21 of the Phytopathology Area of the Institute of Biological and Health Sciences/UFRRJ.

The professors/researchers have their own rooms in the Institutions, totaling 14 rooms. There is a room for students that is not yet equipped with computers.

Laboratories

All Laboratories linked to professors/researchers accredited in the PFBA have the minimum infrastructure necessary to serve the students and to develop their Research Lines and Research Projects. In addition to being connected to the world wide web (Internet).

Linked to PFBA-accredited Professors/Researchers and in order to compose a Phytosanitary and Biotechnology Network in a Phytosanitary and multi-institutional context (UFRRJ, EMBRAPA, among others), for research, the PFBA has the following laboratories:

– UFRRJ – Official Laboratory of Phytosanitary Diagnosis of UFRRJ (includes the sectors of Bacteriology and Phytoplasmology, Mycology, Nematology, Seed Pathology, Virology and Viroids – such sectors are connected by an internal network – Intranet); Soil Biology Laboratory; Forest Products Laboratory/ UFRRJ; Mycology Laboratory and Phytopathological Herbarium “Verlande Duarte Silveira”. It includes the Vegetation House Sector: It has the necessary structure and material for conducting experimental tests (personnel and machinery support) and Experimental Field (designated as Experimental Field “Oswaldo Carlos de Almeida”).

– EMBRAPA – Agrobiology – Grasses, Leguminosae and Microbial Ecology Laboratories; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Laboratories; Advanced Microscopy Center. It includes the Vegetation House Sector: It has the necessary structure and material for conducting experimental tests (controlled conditions, personnel and machinery support) and Experimental Field

The interdisciplinary and interinstitutional aspect of the research developed in the Program becomes feasible as all the students in the Program count on the infrastructure of the various associated laboratories according to their utilization standards, optimizing public resources.

As permanent equipment and material available to the Professors/Researchers accredited in the PFBA and associated students, we have:

UFRRJ – Magnetic Stirrer, Orbital Stirrers, Tube Stirrer, Vacuum Filtration Apparatus, Semi-dry Electrotransfer Apparatus, Western Blot Apparatus, Electric Water Heater, Air Conditioning Apparatus, Cabinets, Horizontal Autoclave, Vertical Autoclaves, Precision Electronic Scales, Wooden Benches, Water Baths, Drinking Fountains, Thermal Block, Vacuum Pumps, Box for visualization of plates from Serology Tests, Tabletop Calculators, Photo Camera, Photographic Camera, Plant Germination and Seed Chambers with Photoperiod, Chapels, Tabletop Centrifuges, Colony Counters, Shower/Eye Wash, Computers, High Resolution Gas Chromatography , Horizontal and Vertical Electrophoresis Vats, Deionizer, Glass Desiccators, Water Distiller, Dehumidifiers, Electroporator, Ultraviolet Light Spectrophotometer, Visible Light Spectrophotometer, Voltage Stabilizers, Nobreak, Sterilizer, Greenhouses, Incubator Greenhouses (B. O.D. ), Fire Extinguishers, Automatic DNA/RNA and Protein Extractor, Laminar Flows, Electrophoresis Fountains, Microwave, Hybridization Oven, Freezers, Refrigerators, GPS, CD Writer, Printers, Microplate Reader (ELISA Plate), Liquidizers, Lighting Fixtures, Writing Machines, Photocopy Machines, Digital Photo Machine, Ice Maker, pH meters (Potentiometers), Tables, Microcameras, Microcentrifuge, Microphone, Micropipettes, Stereoscopic Microscopes, Optical Microscopes, Confocal Microscope, Fluorescence Microscope, Photographic System to attach to Microscopes, Microwave, Automatic Pipettes, Multichannel Pipettes, Hotplate, Planimeter, Seating, Multimedia Projector, Slide Projectors, 20 liter containers for liquid nitrogen, Refrigerators, Time Clocks, Thermohydrograph, Replicator of Bacterial Colonies, Overhead Projectors, Centrifuge and Ultracentrifuge Rotors, Climatized rooms with photoperiod control for insect rearing, Table Scanners, Automatic Nucleic Acid Sequencer, Sonicator, Ultracentrifuge, Projection Screens, Thermocyclers, Thermonebulizer, Voltage Transformers, Ultraviolet and Visible Light Transilluminators, Ultrafreezer, Tractor.

EMBRAPA – Agrobiology – Magnetic Shakers, Vertical Autoclaves, Precision Electronic Scales, Chapters, Tabletop Centrifuges, High Resolution Chromatograph, Colony Counters, Electrophoresis Vats, Horizontal and Vertical, Deionizers, Electroporator, Violet-Visible Light Spectrophotometer, Greenhouses, Incubator Greenhouses (B. O.D.), Electrophoresis Fountains, Freezers, Laminar Flows, Refrigerators, Microwave, Confocal Laser Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope, High Resolution and Magnification Stereo Microscope, Optical Microscope, Automatic Pipettes, Multichannel Pipettes, pH meter, Thermocyclers, Capillary Sequencer ABI 3500.

Library

We have at our disposal, UFRRJ’s Central Library, which is connected to the world computer network (Internet), also allowing access to CAPES’s Electronic Portal.

UFRRJ Central Library

 The library is installed in an ample, acclimatized building, with new spaces for the collections and for the users, allowing a better service to the entire academic community and to the region through the information contained in the materials belonging to the library’s collection, serving as support to teaching, research, and extension.

The Central Library’s team is composed of 42 administrative technicians (8 librarians and 34 administrative positions).

It is open from Monday to Friday, from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

The Central Library consists of two blocks, of two floors, in a total area of 5,960 m2.

In Block 1 you will find

– 1st floor: Head of the Reference Section, Reception, Virtual Research Room (with 26 seats), Loan Sector, Two rooms for the Theses and Dissertations collection, Monitoring and Surveillance Room; Head of the Technical Processing Section, Collection Formation and Development Sector, Warehouse for donations

-2º floor: Auditorium (60 seats), Direction, Multimedia room (26 seats), three monitoring booths (up to 8 seats each), Periodicals Collection, Reading Room: 18 seats, Two rooms.

In Block 2 you will find:

– 1st and 2nd floors: Monographs divided by the areas of knowledge classified by the CDD, 22 booths for group studies with up to six users (11 on each floor), Individual study booths: 12 on the 1st floor and 14 on the 2nd floor, Reading rooms: 1st floor: 200 seats, 2nd floor: 188 seats

Services offered by the UFRRJ Central Library: online cataloguing, bibliographic commutation, user guidance, among others.

The UFRRJ Central Library’s collection covers the following areas of knowledge: Exact and Earth Sciences; Biological Sciences; Engineering/Technology; Health Sciences; Agricultural Sciences; Social and Applied Sciences; Human Sciences; Linguistics, Literature & Arts; Multidisciplinary, totaling 294,302 items, including Books, Periodicals (National and International), Other Publications (National and International), Other Materials (Printed and Multimedia). It also has Works in digital/electronic format in several areas, totaling 4,160 items.

Allied to this, we still have at our disposal for bibliographic consultation, the collection of the EMBRAPA, FIOCRUZ and UFRJ libraries.

Within the collection of the Phytopathology Area of the Institute of Biological Sciences and Health (formerly called the Institute of Biology)/ Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), in addition to an extensive list of invaluable bibliographic works, as Selecta Fungorum Carpologia and Sylloge Fungorum, we also have the “Verlande Duarte Silveira” Scientific Collection and Phitopathological Herbarium, which is considered one of the ten oldest in the country, having started in 1916 at the former National School of Agronomy and that today has an estimated collection of 15. 000 copies.

Within the collection of the Entomology Department of the Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (previously known as the Instituto de Biologia) of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, besides an extensive list of invaluable bibliographical works such as “Insectos do Brasil”, we also have the Entomological Scientific Collection “Angelo Moreira da Costa Lima”, which began in 1916 at the former Escola Nacional de Agronomia (National School of Agronomy) and now has an estimated collection of 100,000 copies.

All these resources allow the Students and Professors linked to the PFBA to supply their needs through national and international virtual libraries and CAPES’s “Periodicals” service.

Access to the World Wide Web

The Secretariat of the PFBA and all the laboratories linked to the Professors/Researchers accredited in the Program have microcomputers connected to the Internet network of their institutions. These institutions are interconnected nationally and internationally through REDE RIO.

All the professors and students of the PFBA are registered in SIGAA (Integrated System of Management and Academic Activities)/ UFRRJ

Specifically, as Computer Resources available to the Professors/Researchers registered in the PFBA and to the associated students, we have: desktop computers with Windows 7 and 10 operating systems, Notebook with Linux system, CD Burner, Multifunction Printers, Nobreak, Stabilizer and Multimedia Projector.

We also have the following Resources for bioinformatics activities: Softwares: Bionumerics: for sequence analysis, fingerprinting; ChromasPro: for sequence analysis; Geneious: for sequence analysis, genomes, metagenomes, primer design; SigmaPlot: program for statistical analysis; HP Workstation: Intel Xeon W-2123 Processor, 3.6GHz; RAM: 32 Gb, Windows 64 bits operating system.