How we help QIMR Berghofer research laboratories
Glassware services provide clean, sterilised glassware and plastic wares required for most tissue culture and wet laboratory work carried out within QIMR Berghofer. Glassware and GL45 bottles are sterilised by steam sterilisation or by high temperature dry ovens. Quality can be assured by the use of temperature and/or biological indicators for each sterility process. All stock is extensively quality controlled for cleanliness and sterility.
QIMR Berghofer Culture media services currently provides sterile RPMI 1640 cell culture media, Hybridoma media, LB Broth, LB agar, LB agar Ampicillin culture plates, and custom culture media solutions. All culture media products are QC batch tested before release to provide a GLP quality product.
We also provide a range of sterile buffers for cell and tissue culture experiments. All buffers are QC batch tested to ensure that they are of GLP quality before release.
The facility produces bulk amounts of sheath fluid for the QIMR Berghofer Flow Cytometry Facility to run through the facility cell sorters and analysers.
Products and Services provided to QIMR Berghofer laboratories
We provide clean, sterilised glassware and plastic wares required for most tissue culture and wet laboratory work carried out within QIMR Berghofer laboratories. Quality control is assured by the use of chemical and/or biological indicators for each sterility process.
Glassware waste management services decontaminate biosecurity, genetically modified, and infectious biological waste via steam sterilisation and eventually incineration. The steam sterilisation process is constantly monitored with biological spore strip indicators and certified temperature probes as required by federal and state regulators.
We currently provide:
- sterile RPMI 1640 cell culture media
- DMEM cell culture media
- NS cell culture media, MEM cell culture media
- LB Broth, LB Agar, LB Agar Ampicillin culture plates
- custom culture media solutions.
All culture media products are GLP QC batch tested before being released.
Tissue culture media services also provide a range of sterile buffers for cell and tissue culture experiments. The unit also produces bulk amounts of FACS sheath fluid and buffers used in our cell sorters and analysers.
Glassware Services include:
- clean and sterile glassware
- clean plastic wares
- laundered lab gowns
- clean and sterile GL45 bottles of various volumes
- sterile unplugged and plugged pasture pipettes.
Facility Staff
Paul Collins
Leanne Thompson
Chaitanya Dasari
Kelly Coonan
Equipment
Prosys steam sterilization Autoclave
IBS Integra Biosciences MediaJet and Mediaclave –