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Tuesday Lab Meetings

This schedule can change daily. Check out the most current list right HERE.... note that lab meeting is on Tuesday @ 11:45 am SHARP... 13th floor meeting room.

• November 01: institute retreat
• November 08: cancelled
• November 15: Angela AND lunch from JR!
• November 22: Lingyu
• November 29: Oliver

• December 06: Fredrik
• December 13: Si Chen
• December 20: Rita
• December 27: cancelled

• January 03: Steffen
• January 10: Melanie
• January 17: Amy
• January 24: Rob
• January 31: Brian ... his last day!

• February 07: Lamis
• February 14: Xin
• February 21: Rita
• February 28: Andres

• March 06: Katie
• March 13: Oliver
• March 20: Angela
• March 27: Lingyu

• April 03: Eszter
• April 10: Fredrik
• April 17: Amy
• April 24: Melanie

• May 01: Jodi
• May 08: Steffen
• May 15: Lamis
• May 22: Xin
• May 29: Katie

• June 5: Oliver

Friday bLab Meetings

Nov. 4- Amy
Nov.18- Andres
Dec. 2- Angela
Dec. 16- Brian

Jan. 13- Fredrik
Jan. 27- Jode
Feb. 10- Katie
Feb. 24- Lamis

March 9- Linyu

Tissue Culture Rules!

We've come up with some rules that we would like all lab members to follow in the general tissue culture space.

1. Incubators Incubators are to be cleaned every three months. Rotation is to be assigned as a function of users using that incubator. However, it is the responsibility of all users of the incubator to check if the water is still there. If it ain’t go ahead and replace it with the distilled water found in the lab


2. In hood liquid waste At the end of your session add bleach to the trap. At the end of the day pour out the contents of the bottle, rinse it with H20, spray down with ethanol, wipe the outside and put back into the hood.


3. Outside solid waste Do not leave anything inside the hood after you’re done. When working in the hood use milk-shake containers to dispose of Pasteur pipettes and tips. For large plastic pipettes, make sure that when you dispose of them they are put into two milk-shake cartons before disposed of into the garbage bag.


4. Pipettes Use glass pipettes provided by MaRS or plastic pipettes found in the lab.


5. Reagents Storage: get new 4C fridge and –20 freezer space, black-out windows on fridge. Malgosia will take care of this.


6. Storage consumables/restocking Everyone will use their own dishes. Malgosia will keep room stocked.


7. Hood etiquette Close it down at the end of the day, including turning off the vacuum. Don’t leave anything inside the hood – no pipettes. UV is not to be on for longer than 15 min. Once a year all users will clean the hood inside out. Malgosia will keep track of this.


8. Scheduling Whoever signs up gets priority for using the hood. If you sign up and you do not use it you’re an @#$%! Sign up is not mandatory, however.


9. Problem resolution/communication Lab meeting is the best place to bring up issues or suggest changes.

Isotope Orders

Orders placed Monday before 4 are delivered Wednesday or Thursday of that week.

Orders placed Thursday before noon are delivered the following Monday.

If you are ordering isotope, you must be here to receive and sign for it.