The Scientific and Technological Nucleus in Bioreources (BIOREN-UFRO) has highly specialized centralized facilities and laboratories to provide research services and strengthen multidisciplinary R&D in biological resources and associated bioprocesses related to food production, environmental sustainability, and human health. In this way, it provides research services for the utilization of biological resources, the development of the Region, and the Country.
Director: Dra. María de La Luz Mora
Microscopy Unit
Location: Central Laboratories Building 1st Floor BIOREN
Area: 58 m2
Particle Analysis and Chromatography Unit
Location: Central Laboratories Building 1st Floor BIOREN
Area: 35 m2
Particle Analysis and Chromatography Unit
Location: Central Laboratories Building 2dn Floor BIOREN
Area: 35 m2
Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics Units
Location: Central Laboratories Building 2nd Floor BIOREN
Area: 30 m2
The Agroindustry Institute is an interdisciplinary institute equipped with state-of-the-art equipment that makes it unique in southern Chile, to generate and evaluate ideas for new products aimed at satisfying current and future trends in the consumer market, through R&D projects that contribute to innovation, technology transfer with impact in their areas of competence
The South Node CeTA-UFRO is part of the linkage strategy that the Technological Center for Food Innovation carries out to position the food industry in Chile and make the country one of the world powers in the production of sophisticated and sustainable food.
Director: Mag. Luis Torralbo
The Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of La Frontera was founded on September 1, 1982; it carries out teaching, research, and extension activities in areas of knowledge related to physical, chemical, and biological processes applied to the rational use of natural resources, environmental preservation, and industrial and health applications. Since its opening, it has positioned itself as an institution of broad renown in the country and abroad.
Director: Dr. Hellmuth Leal
Bioprocess Laboratory
Responsible: Dr. Carolina Shene
Area: 94 m2
Microorganism cultivation, mathematical modeling
Bioseparations Laboratory
Responsible: Dr. Edgar Uquiche (BIOREN Building 1st Floor)
Area: 50 m2
Supercritical extraction of bioactive compounds.
Technology and Processes Unit Laboratory (Chemical Engineering Department – CGNA)
Responsible: Dr. Mónica Rubilar
Area: 94 m2
Utilization of agro-residues, technology and processes of plant raw materials, food encapsulation
Food Sciences Laboratory I
Responsible: Dr. Erick Scheuermann
Area: 60 m2
Extraction processes of natural compounds, development of functional ingredients
Microbiology Laboratory
Responsible: Dr. Christián Vergara
Area: 50 m2 (BIOREN Building 1st Floor)
Energy recovery from organic waste and biofuels
Molecular Biology Laboratory – Cellular Biology Laboratory – Metabolic Engineering and Fermentations Laboratory
Responsible: Jorge Farías
Area: 265 m2
Pharmaceutical biotechnology and aquaculture
Biogas Laboratory
Responsible: Dr. Mara Cea (BIOREN Building 2nd Floor)
Area: 37 m2
Bioenergy, biofuels
Biofuels and Materials Laboratory
Responsible: Dr. Rodrigo Navia
Area: 37 m2 (BIOREN Building 2nd Floor)
Bioenergy, biofuels
Biodiesel Laboratory (Mechanical Engineering Department)
Responsible: Dr. Gustavo Ciudad
Area: 44 m2
Bioenergy, biofuels
Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory
Responsible: Dr. María Cristina Diez
Area: 37 m2 (BIOREN Building 2nd Floor)
Biological and physico-chemical processes for wastewater treatment
Nanobiotechnology Laboratory (Chemical Engineering Department – CIBAMA)
Responsible: Dr. Olga Rubilar
Area: 73 m2
Environmental nanobiotechnology
Our program has had access since 2017 to the Doctoral Building thanks to the Performance Agreement on Internationalization of Doctorates (FRO1204), which consists of a three-story building with a total area of 597 m2, and which it shares with the Doctorate in Natural Resources Sciences and Doctorate in Sciences mention in Applied Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Universidad de La Frontera.
Located in the Bello Campus, with more than 5,000 m², the Central Library is a service in which more than twenty staff members work in six sections: Information Technology, Acquisitions, Technical Processes, Circulation, Digital Resources and Tools, Theses and Journals. The last three - oriented to public attention - operate under the open shelving modality.
