Media Preparation Facility

The glasswash facility supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute prepares media, washes glassware, sterilizes material and disposes of biomedical waste for the laboratories in the Immunobiology Section. Equipment includes a laboratory grade glassware washer, a "clean steam" sterilizer, a small sterilizer and a high temperature oven. The facility has a full-time staff of two and is supervised by an additional HHMI employee. The facility prepares standard and custom tissue culture media, bacterial media and plates and sterile salt solutions.