The School of Biology directs its efforts to three specific activities:
1) Offer the Biotechnology Engineering Career.
2) Be in charge of the Center of Biotechnology Investigation CIB (“Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología”).
3) Offer courses of service to other careers of the Costa Rican Institute of Technology.
This School takes of the challenge the Costa Rican society has conferred to it through investigations and the formation of Biotechnologists. As a matter of fact, these aspects help in the solution of problems related to science and technology to contribute to the socioeconomic development of the country.
Academic School Director: MAP. Jaime Brenes Madríz.
Services
The Center of Biotechnology Research CIB (“Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología”)
- The CIB offers hired training, counselling, and research in the fields of tissue farming and molecular techniques to improve the productive efficiency of agricultural, forest, ornamental and environmental sectors. Moreover, it contributes to the regional and worldwide strategies of phytogenetic resources conservation.
- Tissue farming techniques.
- In Vitro conservation of phytogenetic resources.
- Molecular techniques to a professional and technical level.
- Bioassays of antimicrobian activity.
- Organization of the Biotechnological laboratory.
- Obtain equipment and reagents to be used in Biotechnology.
- Locate greenhouses and acclimatize vegetable material.
- Vegetative propagation through farm tissues.
- In vitro material acclimatization.
- In vitro preservation to a median lead time and cryoconservation.
- Genetic improvement.
- Molecular characterization.
- Massive propagation of selected materials used in tissue farming techniques.
- Virus cleansing in vegetable material.