Welcome to the Dicty Stock Center

Temporary closure of the Dicty Stock Center

November 14, 2008 was the last day to place orders or make deposits to The Dicty Stock Center at Columbia University. The week of December 1st, all materials will be transferred to Northwestern University in Chicago. The Stock Center will re-open in early 2009 when funds become available.

The Dicty Stock Center is a central repository for Dictyostelium discoideum strains, isolates of other cellular slime mold species, plasmids, and commonly used bacteria. These rapidly growing collections currently contain 1372 different strains and 456 plasmids. The catalogs are continuously updated. The strain collection includes:

natural isolates
a large collection of chemical mutants
tester strains for parasexual genetics
axenic strains including auxotrophs
null mutants
GFP-labeled strains for cell biology

The toolbar drop down menu gives access to information relevant to the Stock Center and includes links to the entire catalogs and a search function. Instructions for ordering strains and plasmids can be found under Ordering Information. There are also links to research aids, including nomenclature guidelines and recipes for culturing Dictyostelium.

The Dicty Stock Center is maintained by Jakob Franke and Richard H. Kessin in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University. For additional information, contact Jakob Franke (email: jf31@columbia.edu).


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