How do you make LB agar plates with ampicillin?
Emily Dawson
Published Mar 18, 2026
How do you make LB agar plates with ampicillin?
To make 500 ml of LB agar containing 50 µg/ml ampicillin, add 2.5 ml of 10 mg/ml ampicillin stock. Ensure LB agar is cooled to 50°C before adding ampicillin, excessive heat will degrade the ampicillin. Swirl or use the stir bar and a stir plate to mix the ampicillin into the agar taking care not to introduce bubbles.
How much ampicillin do I add to agar plates?
Ampicillin – add 1ml ampicillin (at 100mg/ml) per liter of agar to obtain a final concentration of 100ug/ml. Mark the plate with a single red line on the side. Kanamycin – add 1ml kanamycin stock (at 50mg/ml) per liter of agar to obtain a final concentration of 50ug/ml.
How do you plate LB agar?
Protocol
- 500 mL makes about one sleeve of petri dishes.
- Add 25g LB Broth per Liter to an appropriately sized beaker.
- Add Water and Stir until clumps are gone.
- Add 15 g Agar per Liter , this will not dissolve.
- Transfer to a erlenmeyer flask at least 2x the volume that you are making.
What is LB agar ampicillin?
LB Agar Ampicillin-100, Plates has been used to plate and incubate the mixture of thawed bacteria and plasmid solution for vimentin expression. It has also been used in the generation of the Trypanosoma brucei RNAi library.
How do you prepare ampicillin?
Dissolve 1 g of sodium ampicillin in sufficient H2O to make a final volume of 10 mL. If sterilization is required, prewash a 0.45- or 0.22-μm sterile filter by drawing through 50-100 mL of H2O. Then pass the ampicillin solution through the washed filter.
How do you prepare pound media?
How to make a 1 L LB media solution
- Weigh out 10 g tryptone, 10 g sodium chloride (NaCl) and 5 g yeast extract and add to a 1 L Duran bottle.
- Measure out approximately 900 mL of distilled water and add to the Duran bottle.
- Shake the bottle to dissolve the reagents.
Why do we add antibiotics to the LB agar plates?
Luria broth (LB) is a nutrient-rich media commonly used to culture bacteria in the lab. The addition of an antibiotic to this gel allows for the selection of only those bacteria with resistance to that antibiotic – usually conferred by a plasmid carrying the antibiotic resistance gene.
What temperature do you add ampicillin to Agar?
Ampicillin should be added at 55C or below. This is roughly the temperature at which you can hold the bottle for 30 seconds and not want to drop it. We typically set a water bath at 55 and leave the autoclaved agar there until we are ready to add antibiotics and pour the plates.
What is an LB amp plate?
LB and LB/Amp Plates: These plates contain the bacterial nutrient medium, Luria-Bertani, which has been solidified with agar. LB/Amp plates have the antibiotic ampicillin added. Store these plates in refrigerator until ready for use.
What does LB agar stand for?
Lysogeny Broth
According to Bertani, LB has been variously misconstrued to stand for “Luria Broth”, “Luria-Bertani” medium, and “Lennox Broth”; however, the acronym originally stood for “Lysogeny Broth” (Bertani, 2004). The agar form of the medium should be designated LA but it is often referred to as LB.
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