Media Preparation and Wash-up

Details of the School’s Media Preparation and Wash-up facilities.

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Photo of media prep staff member together with prepared media in bottles

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

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Two media and wash-up staff members wearing lab coats in office

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

RolePersonEmailTelephone
Media and Wash up Facilities ManagerDominika BorowskaDominika.Borowska@ed.ac.uk0131 650 5358
Senior Media and Wash up TechnicianAlison Fultona.fulton@ed.ac.uk 

Local contacts

LocationTelephoneEmail
Swann Media and Wash up facility0131 650 7023swann.media.ordering@ed.ac.uk
Rutherford Media and Wash up Facility0131 651 3342 
Roger Land Media and Wash up Facility0131 650 5360 
Ashworth Media and Wash up Facility0131 651 7818 

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Sustainability