| Sources of Supplies and Equipment for Drosophila Maintenance Updated April 7, 2008 |
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If you are a supplier of Drosophila supplies and equipment and would like to be added to this list please contact us. A listing on this page does not constitute a recommendation by the Stock Center, its funding agencies, or Indiana University.
| In use at Bloomington | Plastic Shipping Vials | Plugs | Press'n Seal™ | Glass Vials | Vial Filler |
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- Applied Scientific - plastic bottles and vials, caps and plugs, petri dishes and adaptors, cheesecloth, vial filler (AS-770Q), anesthetizers, premixed medium
- Bagsonthenet - plastic bags (16" x 16" slide lock bag, item 9235.3W, is a perfect fit for 10.5" x 11" cardboard trays filled with narrow diameter vials)
- BioCold Environmental Inc. - insect rearing chambers
- Biologix Research Company - plastic bottles and vials, trays and dividers for vials.
- Cancer Research Technology - plastic bottles
- Carolina Biological Supply - anesthetizers, instant medium
- Chem Service Inc. - Tetradifon (=Tedion, item PS-80, $54.10 per gram)
- Cleveland Range - steam jacketed kettles for media preparation
- Darwin Chambers - walk-in and cabinet incubators
- The Drosophila Company - materials designed for small-scale culturing of Drosophila at home, including plastic vials, bottles, caps and plugs, premixed medium, mold inhibitor and Tedion; live cultures of wild-type melanogaster and hydei
- DOT Scientific - instant medium, plastic vials and bottles, bottle closures, bottle-petri dish adaptors, incubators
- Flymax - automated egg collectors
- Fisher Scientific - glass vials (standard 8 dram shell vials are item 03-339-30J), ether, media components, peristaltic pumps (also see Applied Sci. above)
- Genesee Scientific - cabinet incubators, glass milk bottles, plastic bottles and vials (32-109), vial filler (59-168), vial plugger and Len-plugs (59-190, 59-192), bottle filler, cardboard, aluminum and plastic trays (32-122, 59-151N, 59-163A), lids and plugs (49-103, 51-100), Press'n Seal® (88-142), petri dishes and adaptors, mesh, cheesecloth, Miracloth, CO2 anesthetizing equipment (59-122BC), egg collection and population cages, assorted other small equipment, fly food ingredients, Tegosept (Catalogue number links indicate Genesee items in use at Bloomington.)
- Groen - steam jacketed kettles for media preparation
- Hainan Zhongxin Chemical Co., Ltd. - Tetradifon (=Tedion, ~$100 per kilogram, ~$1,600 for 50 kilos) (contact by phone 0086-898-68540310 or fax 0086-898-68540119)
- Harvard BioLabs Machine Shop - embryo staining blocks, fly cases and cages, CO2 anesthetizing pads, custom equipment design and manufacture
- KSE - automated fly stock tracking equipment, stock transfer robot
- Labscientific, Inc. - glass and plastic bottles and vials, caps, plugs and cotton batting, tags, trays, halo-carbon oil, ether, anti-mite shelf paper, sticky traps, anesthetizers, assorted equipment and media components
- Medical Specialties - anesthetizers, population cages, custom lab equipment per your design (contact Joe Vokroy, vokroy@aol.com)
- Molecular Biologicals International, Inc. - Pre-made Drosphila culture medium - ready-to-use fly food in vials
- National Instrument Co. - pumps and filling units (Bloomington has used an AB-5 filling machine with a FKS-30 filling unit)
- Regina Industries Ltd. - glass and plastic vials (contact sales@regina.freeserve.co.uk)
- Sarstedt Inc. - plastic vials (small shipping vials sometimes used at Bloomington are item 58.490)
- SciMart - glass and plastic bottles and vials, caps and plugs, cheesecloth, petri dishes and media components
- Scientific Commodities, Inc. - porous plastic sheets for CO2 anesthetizing pads (1/16" thick, 35 micron pore, 18"x18" sheet is item BB 2062-35)
- Sigma - instant medium, media components, ether, benzyl benzoate
- Small Parts Inc. - porous polyethylene sheets, nylon and copper mesh for CO2 anesthetizing pads
- Tritech Research - incubators, foot-operated CO2 regulators, plastic bottles and vials
- United Laboratory Plastics - plastic vials, foam plugs, insect-rearing chambers
- United States Biological - custom media, instant media, media components
- Wak-Chemie Medical G.m.b.H. - spray disinfectant for incubators, cell culture areas and fly-handling equipment (pads, brushes, etc.)
- Watson-Marlow Bredel - peristaltic pumps and vial filling robot (624Di/L, and 520Di/L pump with XY filler are in use at Bloomington)
