Scientific-Technical Facilities

Materials and Resources for research

1. Service definition

The service offers basic and fundamental support to the center’s research staff, supplying the necessary clean and sterile material, as well as the culture media and solutions required by the research groups.

 

 

2. Offered services

In our cleaning rooms we proceed to wash the contaminated material previously collected from the laboratories. Subsequently, it is dried in ovens at 60ºC or sterilized in humid steam autoclaves. The service maintains the stock of clean and/or sterile material in the laboratories. It also manages the disposal of some of the waste generated by the research groups.
Preparation of culture media for bacteria, for C. elegans and for Drosophila melanogaster (maintenance of collections, crosses and experiments of both species). The service also covers the demand for solutions such as buffers, EDTA, PFA, SDS 10% among others.

 

 

3. Personnel and contact

 

  • Ana Álvarez Martínez – Research support specialist. UPO. 2nd floor kitchen 954.977572.
  • Fátima Fernández Amador – Research support specialist. CSIC. 2nd floor kitchen 954.977572.
  • Natalia Cea Terrero – Research support specialist. UPO. 2nd floor kitchen 954 .977572.
  • Tamara Freire Garrido – Research support specialist. Technician manager for the service. UPO. 1st floor kitchen 954.977571.

 

4. Equipment

 

  • Thermodisinfectors
  • Autoclaves
  • Autoclaves and chest freezers for waste
  • Drying ovens
  • Laminar flow extraction hoods
  • Mediaclave 30 L
  • Peristaltic pumps
  • Distilled water
  • Ultrapure water (Milli-Q)

5. Rates

Offered services

 

RATES
CABD Universities and PRBs Enterprises/Others
CULTURE MEDIA (LITER)
DROSOPHILA MEDIUM 17.73€ 22.16€ 26.60€
ENRICHED DROSOPHILA MEDIUM 14.66€ 16.66€ 20.00€
YPD 5.28€ 6.60€ 7.92€
LB 3.02€ 3.78€ 4.53€
NGM / RNAi (medium for worms) 4.09€ 4.65€ 5.58€
WORM PLATES (price per unit) 0.08€ 0.09€ 0.11€
SOLUTIONS (Liter)
BUFFERS
TAE 50 X 25.93€ 29.46€ 35.36€
OTHER BUFFERS 9.30€ 11.63€ 13.95€
SOLUTIONS
EDTA 0.5 M / SOB / SOC / Tris GLYCINE / PFA 4% (100 ML)/ SDS 10% 10.02€ 12.53€ 15.03€
TECHNICAL ADVICE / LABOUR 30.00€ 37.50€ 45.00€