Lab Responsibilities

1. Expectations on Lab Members

We want to maintain a collaborative environment, where people contribute, share and respect each other's knowledge and expertise to generate exciting results.

2. General Lab Rules

Be polite to each other (style of emails, style of conversations, no usage of bad language in the lab).

Since all lab members are likely to be under stress, when a conflict arises, please consider (1) the other person is also likely to be stressed, (2) the other person may have a different style from yours in expressing or not expressing his/her reaction, (3) every action has a reaction (Newton) so even if there is no direct consequence, there is still damage being done.

(1) If person A is angry at person B, they should first try and work it out amongst each other, before coming to me unless person A or B for whatever reason cannot or does not want to work it out directly with the other person and needs my help in finding a strategy on how to handle the issue.

(2) If persons A and B cannot work it out with each other and there is no reason to ask my advise first, then the two people should come together to me and not separately.

3. Instrumentation, Equipment & Waste Disposal 

The lab coordinator: Prabin Dhungana

We make an effort in having everything that affects more than one person assigned someone responsible. If we are missing something in the list below, pls. contact PI. All questions or concerns or suggestions regarding the responsibility should be directed first at the lab coordinator, and this person has absolute authority in enforcing the rules for the respective items. If there is a problem, the authority and the user should come and talk to PI together.

Whenever you have new materials, please file and maintain MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) in the file notebook located on top of the chemical self. In addition, please keep the tags from reagents that we run out of before disposal (hand over the tags to the lab coordinator).

Prabin: Maintenance of Centrifuges, Microscope, Incubators, Pipettes, Water baths, Rotor-gene, PCR machine, Fridges and Freezers, Balances, pH meter, Gel apparatuses, Nanodrop, Nitrogen cylinder supply, Computers and Growth Chambers

Gavin, Moumita: Maintenance of Culex p. pipiens colony.

Tatyana: Waste disposal and autoclave tubes and tips.