Media Preparation and Wash-up
Details of the School’s Media Preparation and Wash-up facilities.
We have four School Media and Wash-up Facilities at Kings Buildings, ensuring a comprehensive and efficient service is maintained and received by users.
The facilities are used by more than 500 regular users within over 100 research labs throughout the School.
Media
We provide various growth Medias for use in Biological Science research labs at Kings Buildings, this includes:
- Buffers,
- Broths, and
- plated and bottled agar Medias.
We also make Fly Food media in our Swann and Ashworth facilities to aid in drosophila fruit fly research.
Wash-up
Our Wash-up service ensures laboratory waste, both liquid and plastic, is collected, sterilised, and disposed of safely.
We also provide a daily comprehensive glassware replenishment service, which keeps labs stocked with sterile bottles flasks, pipettes, and other laboratory consumables.
Sustainability
We are striving to improve sustainability throughout our service and have seen results in improving our water consumption and minimising single use plastics.
Key contacts
| Role | Person | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media and Wash-up Facilities Manager | Kris Walker | Kris.Walker@ed.ac.uk | 0131 650 5358 |
| Senior Media and Wash up Technician | Alison Fulton | a.fulton@ed.ac.uk |
Local contacts
| Location | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|
| Swann Media and Wash up facility | 0131 650 7023 | swann.media.ordering@ed.ac.uk |
| Rutherford Media and Wash up Facility | 0131 651 3342 | |
| Roger Land Media and Wash up Facility | 0131 650 5360 | |
| Ashworth Media and Wash up Facility | 0131 651 7818 |