Contacting us / requesting reagents

Contact:

Please contact either Shireen Davies or Julian Dow if you have any questions about our work. We are always happy to hear from potential collaborators.

Reagent requests:

If you would like materials (antibodies, clones, fly lines), we're happy to share published resources and request only that you cite our work when you use them. We are happy to share freely our reagents to the academic research community, and to licence them to industry. In 2012, we fulfilled 76 such stock requests for a total of 105 reagents; a lot of people are interested in the genes we characterized!

Unfortunately, our senior tech/lab manager is now spending about a third of his time running our de facto stock centre, and fulfilling often rather casual and broad requests.

So we have decided, in line with several other stock centres, to introduce a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) and a $25 handling charge per reagent ordered (FEDEX & dry ice extra, we're afraid). I'm afraid that 'sharing freely' does not imply 'free of charge'; rest assured that we're probably still subsidising our reagent distribution from our research grants, so please bear this in mind if you get one to review.

If you would like our published reagents, please contact julian.dow<at>glasgow.ac.uk in the first instance, specifying exactly what you want ordered. We'll check to see if it's still available, and arrange an MTA and invoice to be sent out. On completion, we can ship materials without delay.

For importation into the USA, you'll also need to send us a customs label for the package before we can ship.

Here are the items most commonly requested:

Thank you again for your interest in our work!