Ordering

Add any newly ordered reagents to the inventory list.

Orders from STORES are made on Quartzy: https://app.quartzy.com/login

Any other purchases are made on the King's Finance System (KFin): https://ubw.unit4cloud.com/uk_kcl_prod_web/

Advice on ordering using KFin (Unit4):


Instruction on setting up a Unit4 account

Grant Codes

TS13346 - Daisy

TS13345 - Christopher

ST11098 - Steven

RE16745 - Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Eve)

RE16280 - Ipsen Biopharma BoNT imaging (Jo)

RE15804 - Mark Wallace-Ipsen Bioinnovation (Jason)

ST12494 - Kharina

ST12529 - Lucian

RE19838 - Wellcome Trust Investigator Award

AC17858 - Jessie

ST13204 - Henry  

ST13349 - Guanzhong

ST13347 - Zhongdao

ST13353 - Yize

ST14002 - Adelina Studentship

RE23922 - Adelina ( Ipsen - Engineering a new Botulinum Toxin Translocation Research Costs)

ST14030 - Yimeng

TS12873 - Ipsen Consultancy (closed)

RE15804 - Ipsen Closure

AC13952 - ROIS (not for general use)

Regularly Ordered Items

A place for order and manufacturer codes for the consumables we commonly use. In alphabetical order.


Agarose

substrate: Sigma, XXXXXXXXXX

rehydrating: Sigma, A6877 - Type II, Medium EEO (0.16-0.19), gel 35-38 °C

(N.B. These are the ones that JTS happily uses.)


Pipette Tips, Standard

Gilson Pipetman Diamond Towerpack (N.B. "Towerpack" bit is important!)

D10 (10 μL tips), F167101

D200 (200 μL tips), F167103 

D1000 (1000 μL tips), F167104


Pipette Tips, low-retention (for handling low concentrations of protein)

Labcon SuperSlik™ 200 μL Low Retention Pipette Tips, non-filtered, non-sterile

1065-960-006-9 = 10 purple boxes of 96 tips

1065-260-000-9 = 10 refills of 96 tips (does not come with boxes - fine if we already have some empty boxes)


Tubes, PCR, low-bind

Axygen Maxymum Recovery 0.2 mL, thin wall tubes. Manufacturer code: PCR-02-L-C (that's what you want to search for).


Vials, black-lidded (vials and lids are purchased separately)

1.75 mL glass specimen vials, Fisher 15374779 (box of 882 vials)

screw caps (lids), Fisher 12957836 (bag of 882 lids)

7 mL screw caps, Fisher 15394779 (it's lids: 15394789)

10.5 mL snap on vials, Fisher 15374769


Vials, green-lidded (Supelco)

These can either be bought "Pre-Assembled", meaning they come with lids, or the vials and lids are purchased separately - take care when ordering!

Supelco glass vials, screw top with solid green thermoset cap with PTFE liner, preassembled, x100

clear glass: Sigma 27134

amber glass: Sigma 27000

OR

vials only (x100): Sigma 27078 

lids only (x100): Sigma 27091-U


Electrode connectors (20 awg male crimp connector)

HDP-20 size 20 male crimp d-sub connector contact. Order from RS: 446-787


Oxygen Cylinder

From U4, 98058500, £72.51


MQ water machine

From U4:


Darwin Microfluidic Herringbone mixer - Glass Chip







Ordering lipids

Always order lyophilised lipids. Cholorform tends to be contaminated at the level required for single-molecule fluorescence experiments.

Lipoid offer free 1g samples of pharmaceutical grade lipids. Each person is entitled upto 5 x 1g samples a year. Contact  Schaellibaum@lipoid.com, burch@lipoid.com or heuberger@lipoid.com.  Visit http://www.lipoid.com to view their latest catalog.

We now buy our Avanti lipids from Sigma/Merck.

Another alternative is https://www.larodan.com/products/category/phospholipids/

Ordering consumables from the in-house stores 

Email the Tech Team (BH-Technical-Chemistry@kcl.ac.uk) to invite you to join the Quartzy ordering system. Here you can buy general lab consumables such as: solvents, basic chemicals, lab books, lab wipes, pipette tips, tubes, Pasteur pipettes, gas cylinders, syringes, waste and autoclave bags, sharps bins, stirrer bars, basic glassware...

Check the 'Inventory' tab on Quartzy to find out what can be bought from Stores.

Purchasing other items

KFin

If the thing you want isn't in stores, then you need to use the King's Finance System (KFin). https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/about/ps/finance/Logging-in-to-Kings-Finance.

Ask someone in the group nicely to show you how to use it.

New Hunt's House Stores (Guy's campus):

Located on the ground floor. You will need to fill a form with the items you would like to order (they will provide the forms and list of items you can acquire, ranging from stationary, to chemical and molecular biology products).

Batteries AA, AAA, CDs, USB flash drives can be acquired there.

Don't forget to take your grant code with you.

Getting a custom-designed metal unit cut (e.g. base plate for lasers)

The department covers costs for outsourced workshop jobs, the cost code for this is CCH1000. Make sure Vicky has been made aware of the payments before processing them.

James Green runs a workshop in Old Kent Road. Contact:  james@storeprojects.org   07584 415819

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Old Codes

DNRXWP0 ERC CoSMiC

DNRXQA0 SFG

DNRWAU0 Marie Curie

DN9300 General Account

DNRSNM0 TAT

TS14412 - Raj (Newton Bhabha Fellowship Grant)

If you're lazy you can use DPM's logins:

Fisher - marshall2k fishing87

Sigma - marshall2k p208foe