Department of Pharmacognosy has facilities apt for analysis on plants. Plant samples that are worked on are kept in the herbarium of our department. The equipment necessary for extraction of plant samples and isolation of metabolites from these extracts are found in the department though with limitations. There are water baths and electrical heaters for extraction, recycling coolers, evaporators, lyophilizators, chromatography equipment (thin layer chromatography set, columns and fraction collectors of various sizes for classical column chromatography, preparative liquid chromatography equipment, VLC, MPLC and analytical HPLC). Some of the devices necessary for structural analysis of natural compounds are found in our department (UV, FT-IR, LC-MS, polarimeter) and in other units of our university (NMR, 400 MHz). The absent equipment that are required in some studies may be obtained by interdisciplinary studies (please see the publication lists of related researchers). The main research topics include glycosides (monoterpene glycosides, iridoids, triterpenic and steroidal saponosides, phenylethanoides, lignans, antranoides and flavonoides) and diterpenes. The department also has a quite rich collection of natural compounds.