Media Preparation & Ordering Services
The IMB Media Room is a centralized facility that provides both pre-made sterilized media and custom ordered recipes. We offer a consistent high quality research media that may be used for all your research experiments throughout the duration of your project. We are staffed by trained, accountable personnel knowledgeable in the mixing of chemicals and the intricacies of a wide range of recipes.
Agar plates can be made with a variety of recipes and in a variety of sizes. There are multiple sizes of plates that are stocked by the media room: 100x15mm, 150x15mm and 60x15mm. If your lab would like an alternative plate, you may provide them and we will work with you to fill them as best we can. Volumes can be ordered from 1/4L on up. Please see the Agar Plates page for more details.
Bottled media is also available in a variety of recipes and can also be in a variety of volumes. Our most commonly used bottled stock is pre-made and on our shelves in sizes ranging from 50ml, 100ml, 200ml, 400ml, 1L & 2L. However, you are able to customize your order to be made in any volume that is convenient for your project. You may request that your media be contained in bottles, flasks, vials, stabs/slants or tubes. Or perhaps you would prefer a dry measurement of chemicals to be used later – we will work with you to decide what best suits your needs.
To order from our standard stock or to request a customized recipe (see below) every on-campus user must have their project’s current index number (supplied by your PI). If you are an off-campus customer you may create an account and arrange payment by contacting our accounting department (see Contacts page). Once your account is established you may order and check out items as you would like.
Charges are compiled and submitted to the IMB accounting department and are billed out on a monthly schedule. Please see our Billing & Pricing page for more detailed information.
Labs with approved entrance keys are welcome to access the media room as needed — to pick up shelf stock or return empty media bottles. Off Campus labs may pick up their orders in the hallway located outside of the Media Room (241 Klamath). Please note, off campus labs will be required to supply their own travel containers to transport their orders. Entrance to the building will be set by the U of O hours of operation.
Pre-Made Shelfstock
Researchers have the option to check out items from our stock of pre-made sterilized bottled media. We keep a rotating variety of salts, sugars, buffers, broths, etc on our shelves – the selection determined by the most frequently used items in our current customers projects. Come check out our stock … you may find that what you need is already prepared. (Note: we also maintain a stock of filter sterilized antibiotics — these are available for check out or as additions to your media orders).
Items that are signed out from our stock should be signed out in the Sign Out Book located on the counter in Room 241 Klamath — lab personnel may sign out items under their lab’s individual page and individuals or off-campus researchers may sign items out under the “Miscellaneous Labs” page at the back of the book. (Please note that off-campus labs will be charged a bottle fee, which may be refunded upon return of the glassware).
Custom Orders
Alternatively, customers may place individualized orders for media and agar plates either from our catalog of recipes or from a completely customized recipe…just contact us and we can discuss your options. (There is a list of the currently most requested recipes on the Frequently Ordered Media page).
Our current mode of placing custom orders is contactless, just email Autumn Wicklund (autumnw@uoregon.edu) with all details of your order: quantity/volume, media type, plate size, bottle size, index number to be charged, researcher’s name and lab. An order confirmation email, with a projected date of completion, will be sent once an order is received, and a notice of completion email will be sent when an order is completed. A more detailed description of the procedure can be found on the Agar Plates pages.
On the next day of operation, after completion, plates and bottled media will be placed either on a cart in the hallway by the door of Room 241 Klamath or in the cubby behind the curtain by the door of Room 241 Klamath. Labs with approved entrance keys may also pick up their orders earlier or outside of our standard business hours, plates to be found on the counter in Room 241 Klamath.
Alternative Ordering Methods
Phone: If you are unable to make it into the lab just give us a call at (541)346-5148 and we will place your order for you.
Email: You may also email Media Room supervisor Autumn Wicklund at autumn@molbio.uoregon.edu — but always give us a call to make sure your order request was received.
Online: We are currently unable to take orders online.
