The lab

With 230 square meters, the lab is composed by offices for professors and students, a microscopy facility, molecular facility, meeting room, and a room for experiments with controlled temperature. The laboratory was build thanks to a grant from the Government of the state of Paraná and subsequent support from private, state and federal agencies. The laboratories are equipped by phase and DIC microscopes, stereomicroscopes, all necessary equipment for DNA sequencing and genotyping including an ABI 3130 automatic sequencer, reaction and extraction robots, -80 freezers and others.

The lab was called the Molecular Ecology and Evolutionary Parasitology Lab (LEMPE) until 2019 when its concept was modified and the place was renamed as "Biological Interactions." The physical laboratory hosts today the research team of 3 previous and independent laboratories: The old LEMPE, the Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Interação (LEEI), and the Laboratório de Ecologia de Interações Antagonistas (LEIA). The interaction of these 3 teams, we expect, will boost collaboration by providing a rich environment for the exchange of ideas, good laboratory space and infrastructure, and strengthening the robustness of scientific proposals on ecological and evolutionary aspects of biological interactions in general. The laboratory also incubates the company Baggio & Baggio: Environment and Technology that is involved on the projects we develop and also on the production of knowledge and solutions to environmental issues for private initiatives.