What We Do

The Media Prep Facility feeds Janelia research. Experienced staff provide a consistent supply of quality-assured media and reagents, and a wide variety of fly food products, to support laboratories and team projects. We customize formulations and protocols to precisely fit the needs of Janelia research.

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A majority of the Facility's work involves fly food, but we also provide bacterial and other media products to all of Janelia. The Facility fulfills and delivers orders to the labs quickly. Because commercially-available media products are available in the Janelia stockroom, the Media Facility has flexibility to produce individualized products that are not commercially available.

Services

Fly food – cornmeal based, dextrose based, Wurzburg formula based, and Power Food

Vials and bottles
With additives (i.e., retinal, G418)
12-well plates
100-mm plates
60-mm plates
Small culture tubes
Deep well block plates
Trikinetic tubes
Grape juice plates

Bacterial plates

The Media Prep Facility provides researchers with all types of bacterial plates. There are bench-top sterilizers and automated plate pourers that are capable of making up to 9 liters of media that can be dispensed into either 100 mm or 60mm plates .