Infrastructure – UFC
The Department of Animal Science at UFC has the following laboratories and research units, led by its faculty and staff. All units are located at the College of Agricultural Sciences, Pici Campus, Mister Hull Ave., Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. 60440-554.
Pollination and bee keeping research unit:
Prof. Breno Magalhães Freitas (freitas@ufc.br).
Building 814.
Phone: (85) 3366.9220.
Laboratory of Omics Sciences and Physiology
Prof. Arlindo A. Moura (arlindo.moura@gmail.com).
Building 808.
Phone: (85) 3366.9697.
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition
Prof. Elzânia Sales Pereira (elzania@hotmail.com).
Building 810.
Phone: (85) 3366.9749.
Poultry Science Unit
Prof. Ednardo Rodrigues Freitas (ednardo@ufc.br).
Building 811.
Phone: (85) 3366.9708.
Rabbit production unit
Prof. Luciano Pinheiro (lps@ufc.br)
Building 812.
Phone: (85) 3366.9709
Digestibility Unit
Prof. Elzânia Sales Pereira (elzania@hotmail.com).
Building 820.
Phone: (85) 3366.9749.
Forrage Unit – Center for Teaching and Research in Forrage (NEEF): https://neef.ufc.br/pt/
Prof. Magno José Duarte Cândido (magno@ufc.br )
Building 844 and 817.
Phone: (85) 3366.9711.
Sheep Research Unit
Building 819.
Phone: (85) 3366.9703.
Prof. Aderson Viana (aderson.viana@ufc.br).
Swine Unit
Building 813.
Phone: (85) 3366.9712.
Prof. Pedro Henrique Watanabe (pedrowatanabe@ufc.br ).
Feed mill
Prof. Pedro Henrique Watanabe (pedrowatanabe@ufc.br ).
The feed mill is equipped with hammer mills, vertical feed mixers, a forage chopper, a pelletizer, mechanical scales, and a platform scale.
Other support facilities and laboratories at UFC:
Central Analytical Facility
The Analytical Center of the Federal University of Ceará has the mission of providing users from various fields of knowledge with infrastructure for analytical and microscopy techniques. Its goal is to enable, enhance, and promote scientific and technological research at UFC and other research institutions, while also engaging in undergraduate and graduate education, outreach activities, service provision, and development in collaboration with the productive sector.
Department of Physics
Building 928
Phone: (85) 3366-9915.
E-mail: coordenacao@centralanalitica.ufc.br
Webpage: http://www.centralanalitica.ufc.br/
Seed Laboratory
Prof. XXXX.
Department of Plant Science
Building 826
Phone: (85) 3366.9713.
Laboratory of Meat and Fish Science
Department of Food Technology
Buildings 854 and 855.
Phone: (85) 3366.9742.
Prof. Elisabeth Mary Cunha da Silva (elisabeth@ufc.br).
Laboratory of Biotechnology
Department of Biochemistry
Buildings 803 and 804
Experimental farms
“Lavoura Seca” farm:
Total area: 220 há
Quixadá, 168 km from Fortaleza.
Director: Prof. Gabrimar Araujo Martins.
Address: Zona Rural – CEP 63900-000 – Quixadá – CE.
Phonse: (88) 99961 1091 / (85) 9994 30354 / (85) 9915 63720.
E-mail: gabrimar.m@gmail.com
“Vale do Curu” Experimental Farm
Total area: 823 há
Pentecoste, 100 km from Fortaleza.
Director: Mr. Francisco José de Mesquita Sales.
Zona Rural – CEP 62640-000 – Pentecostes – CE.
Phone: (85) 3366.9735.
E-mail: fevc.ufc@gmail.com
