Shipping and Drop Box Information
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Planning experiments near a holiday?
Please refer to our holiday schedule for dates of operation and drop box availability.
How to Pack Your Order
- Orders should be sent in sealed plastic bags with the order number clearly visible. You may write the order number directly on the bag in permanent marker, or on a scrap piece of paper or sticky note placed within the bag. You do not need to include a printout of the order. Complimentary ACGT sample bags are available at drop box locations.
- DNA samples may be shipped at ambient temperature for overnight delivery. You do not need to ship samples with dry ice or wet ice.
- Samples stored in individual microfuge tubes and PCR strip tubes should be capped tightly to prevent accidental leakage during transit. ACGT recommends securing tubes with a small amount of parafilm around the lid.
- For samples sent in 96-well plates, ACGT recommends sealing them with PCR strip-tube caps rather than plate seals or foils to prevent leakage and contamination between wells during transit.
Shipping via ACGT Drop Box
- ACGT operates drop boxes situated at various universities, companies, and government buildings, each overseen by a designated courier. These couriers collect all orders placed in the boxes at the scheduled pickup times and ship them overnight to our facilities, eliminating the cost for shipping charges.
- Orders placed in boxes that ship to our Wheeling location are expedited via FedEx overnight service and typically arrive at our facility the following morning. You will receive an email notification when your order has been received and checked in by our technologists.
- If you are interested in hosting an ACGT Drop Box at your location, please complete the Drop Box Request Form.
Drop Box Locations Interactive Map
Services Processed at Each Laboratory
Wheeling Laboratory
Germantown Laboratory
San Francisco Laboratory
35 Waltz Drive
Wheeling, IL 60090
12321 Middlebrook Road, Suite 105
Germantown, MD 20874
Coming soon!
Whole Plasmid Sequencing
Sanger Sequencing
Single Pass Primer Extension, Direct Colony Sequencing, High Throughput Sanger Sequencing
NGS and Molecular Biology
All automated and custom NGS services, Genotyping, Copy Number Analysis, Fragment Length Analysis, Bioinformatics, Custom Projects, Regulatory Grade GLP/cGMP Sequencing and Clinical Grade Sequencing.
Sanger Sequencing Only
Single Pass Primer Extension, Direct Colony Sequencing, High Throughput Sanger Sequencing, Full Sequence Analysis, gDNA Target Sequencing
Whole Plasmid Sequencing Only
Sanger and NGS projects will be shipped to Wheeling laboratory
Drop Boxes That Ship to Wheeling, IL
Organization
Box Location
Pickup Time
Alexandria LaunchLabs
3160 Porter Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Auburn University
CASIC Building
Northeast corner of lobby
559 Devall Drive
Auburn, AL 36849
4:30 pm (CST)
Augusta University
Cancer Research Center
Room CN-2115
1410 Laney-Walker Blvd
Augusta, GA 30912
2:30-4 pm (EST)
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
Wood Building
Main lobby
2109 Adelbert Rd
Cleveland, OH 44106
4:00 pm (EST)
Indiana University-Bloomington (IUB)
Myers Hall
Room 162
915 E. 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
4:00 pm (EST)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Van Nuys Medical Science Building
Room 4071
635 Barnhill Dr.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
4:00 pm (EST)
Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC)
Biomedical Building
North entrance of Hixson Atrium G040 Lied
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160
3:00 pm (CST)
Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC)
Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center
Building 112 Room 206
2160 S. 1st Ave.
Maywood, IL 60153
4:00 pm (CST)
Michigan State University (MSU)
Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building
Room 1104
567 Wilson Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
2:30 pm (EST)
Northwestern University-Evanston
Cook Hall
Room 4161
2220 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
12:30 pm (CST)
Northwestern University-Chicago
Tarry Building
6th floor elevator lobby
300 E. Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Lurie Building
7th Floor (public area near the elevators/stairs)
303 E. Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
1:30 pm (CST)
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) Building
1st floor admin office
505 NW 185th Ave
Beaverton, OR 97006
Pickup on Tuesdays and Fridays only
1:30 (PST)
Recombinetics
Recombinetics
3388 Mike Collins Drive
Eagan, MN 55121
4:00 pm (CST)
Stanford University
Stanford Medicine
1651 Page Mill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
3:00 pm (PST)
University of California-Berkeley
Tan Kah Kee Hall
University Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
2:15 pm (PST)
University of California-Davis
Opening January 5th
Green Hall
605 Hutchison Drive
Davis, CA 95616
2:00 pm (PST)
University of California-San Diego
Opening January 1st
Moores Cancer Center
3855 Health Sciences Drive
San Diego, CA 92037
4:00 pm (PST)
University of Colorado-Boulder
Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building
Room D354
3415 Colorado Ave
Boulder, CO 80303
2:00pm (MST)
University of Colorado-Anschutz
Research 1 North Building (Building P18)
RC1N Rm P18-7404L
Linear equipment corridor at the far south end of the hall
12800 E. 19th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
3:00 pm (MST)
University of Georgia
Riverbend Research Lab South
Front desk in main lobby
220 Riverbend Rd.
Athens, GA 30602
5:00 pm (EST)
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
College of Medicine Research Building
5th floor lobby
909 S Wolcott Ave
Chicago, IL 60612
3:00 pm (CST)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
CLSL Building C
Room C107
601 S. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
IGB Building
Room 1201 (Shipping & Receiving)
1206 West Gregory Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
CLSL:
3:30 pm (CST)
IGB (Pickup on Thursdays only):
3:30 pm (CST)
University of Kansas-Lawrence
Haworth Hall
Room 3027 (Molecular Biosciences Biostore)
1200 Sunnyside Ave.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7534
1:00 pm (CST)
University of Kentucky
Biomedical Biological Sciences Research Building
2nd floor lobby
741 S. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40536
4:30 pm (EST)
University of Minnesota-St. Paul
Gortner Building
Room 142 (Biotechnology Office)
1479 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
5:00 pm (CST)
University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
Nils Hasselmo Hall
Information Desk on 3rd floor
312 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
3:30 pm (CST)
University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Durham Research Center I
985870 Nebraska Medical Center
Room 7024
S 45th St
Omaha, NE 68131
Durham Research Center II
985900 Nebraska Medical Center
Room 7046
S 45th St
Omaha, NE 68106
DRCI:
2:00 pm (CST)
DRC II:
2:00 pm (CST)
University of Rochester
Biological Supply Center
Room G-8633 (Ground Floor of Medical School)
601 Elmwood Ave
Rochester, NY 14642
4:00 pm (EST)
Utah State University
USTAR Building 650
Third floor corridor
650 E 1600 N
Logan, UT 84341
3:15 pm (MST)
University of Texas-Austin
FNT Building
1st Fl (Across from the elevators)
102 E. 24th ST
Austin, TX 78712
4:00 pm (CST)
University of Texas-Medical Branch
University of Texas Medical Branch
Clinical Services Wing 7.100, L38867
301 University Blvd
Galveston, TX 77555
3:00 pm (CST)
University of Utah
Opening January 5th
Crocker Science Center
Room 120G
1390 Presidents Circle
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
3:30 pm (MST)
Drop Boxes That Ship to Germantown, MD
Organization
Box Location
Pickup Time
NIH Building 6B
1st floor by the elevator
6 Center Dr
Bethesda, MD 20892
Orders must be submitted online by 4:30 pm (EST) to guarantee 5:00 pm pickup
NIH Building 10
The second floor of the Hatfield Center near the south elevator lobby on the side opposite the entrance to the ACRF cafeteria
10 Center Dr
Bethesda, MD 20892
Orders must be submitted online by 4:30 pm (EST) to guarantee 5:00 pm pickup
NIH Building 40
1st floor by the main entrance
37 Convent Dr
Bethesda, MD 20814
Orders must be submitted online by 4:30 pm (EST) to guarantee 5:00 pm pickup
NIH Building 41
1st floor by the loading dock
(by the backdoor of the building)
Bethesda, MD 20894
Orders must be submitted online by 4:30 pm (EST) to guarantee 5:00 pm pickup
NIH Building 50
1st floor by FedEx dropbox (in the left corner of the hallway)
50 South Dr
Bethesda, MD 20894
Orders must be submitted online by 4:30 pm (EST) to guarantee 5:00 pm pickup
NIH Gaithersburg
In the corner of the West exit’s exterior portico by the loading bay
9 W Watkins Mill Rd
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Orders must be submitted online by 3:00 pm (EST) to guarantee 3:30 pm pickup
NIH Twinbrook III
In the lobby of the building near the security desk
12735 Twinbrook Pkwy
Rockville, MD 20852
Orders must be submitted online by 3:00 pm (EST) to guarantee 4:00 pm pickup
Lentigen
Located outside the suite #200 on the second floor, which is to the left at the top of the main staircase
910 Clopper Rd 200S
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Orders must be submitted online by 3:00 pm (EST) to guarantee 3:30 pm pickup
Lentigen/Miltenyi
Located outside the doors of the main entrance
1201 Clopper Rd
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Orders must be submitted online by 3:00 pm (EST) to guarantee 3:30 pm pickup
George Washington University
Located as a wall-mounted box along the southeastern wall of the loading bay near the corner with the retaining wall adjacent to H St NW
2300 I St NW
Washington, DC 20052
Orders must be submitted online by 2:00 pm (EST) to guarantee 3:30 pm pickup
University of Maryland College Park
Box 1
Located outside the administrative office
4062 Campus Dr
College Park, MD 20742
Box 2
Located outside building main entrance
8314 Paint Branch Dr
College Park, MD 20742
Orders must be submitted online by 2:00 pm (EST) to guarantee 3:30 pm pickup
Drop Boxes That Ship to San Francisco, CA
Organization
Box Location
Pickup Time
Stanford University
Stanford Medicine
1651 Page Mill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
3:00 pm (PST)
Alexandria LaunchLabs
3160 Porter Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94304
3:00 pm (PST)
Shipping Without a Drop Box
- If there is no ACGT drop box at your location, we recommend shipping via FedEx to ensure timely delivery. We do not recommend sending samples by regular mail as postal service packages are often received after 12:00 pm (CST) and will result in data delivery delays.
- ACGT provides free FedEx shipping for orders of 20 or more reactions by request. Send us an email at [email protected] to request a shipping label. Your email must contain the order number(s), the sending address, and a phone number to use to create the label. We will then send you a pre-paid printable label to attach to your packaging.
- If you are interested in hosting an ACGT Drop Box at your location, please complete the Drop Box Request Form.