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King’s Receives Donation of Laboratory Equipment,
First College in Country to Use Fastest Microbial Identification System

The King’s College biology department recently received a donation of advanced laboratory equipment to be used for the identification of bacteria.  The equipment was donated by Microbial Identification, Inc., (MIDI) of Newark, Delaware.  According to MIDI, King’s is the first educational institution in the United States to receive the equipment.

The Sherlock Microbial Identification System by MIDI, Inc, is used worldwide by health care providers for bacterial identification and clinical diagnosis.  The College received a novel sample preparation method, called Sherlock Instant FAME, which will allow King’s students and faculty to identify bacteria samples in less than 15 minutes.  Previously, identification took two hours. 

Pictured using a portion of the new equipment are, seated, from left, Chad Welsh, King's biology faculty member, and Gary Jackoway, vice president of research and development for MIDI, Inc.  Pictured standing, from left, is Craig Kunitsky, global marketing director for MIDI, Dr. David Glick, associate professor of biology, and Thomas Tobin, associate professor of biology and director of the King’s Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program.

King's College is a Catholic College sponsored by the congregation of Holy Cross.