Annual Plan of Implementation of the Technical Reserve for Infrastructure in Institutional Research at the Museum of Zoology, USP

• Grant number: 15/19957-9
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure
• Start date: November 01, 2015
• End date: October 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Domingos Siqueira Tavares
• Grantee: Marcos Domingos Siqueira Tavares
• Host Institution: Museu de Zoologia (MZ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present request of use for the Institutional Technical Reserve encompasses outsourced services to support the research lines of USP's Museum of Zoology. The museum management group, along with their Research Committee and with the agreement of their Advisory Board, has defined as priorities buy control systems, registration and management of the museum's research collections. Thus, this proposal includes the purchase of outsourced services for the maintenance of digital data, security system installation of collections and laboratories, upgrading and expansion of the electronic management system of scientific collections, and also a table top centrifuge for histology laboratory. (AU)