LAB RESPONSIBILITIES
as of 12/2011
Alysia - organize/clean crystallization area, stock general crystallization supplies, crystallography microscopes, LN2 dewar for storing crystals, crystallography incubators
Anthony - Biacore, computers, SMART system
Beth S - “new” room temperature AKTA “Rosalind”, gel filtration standards
Beth H-T - Milli-Q water system (maintenance and filling carboy), safety officer, radiation badges and rings, general TC maintenance (aliquot heat-inactivated FBS, dialyzed heat-inactivated FBS, goat serum, Penn/Strep, L-glutamine, MSX, TC hood and incubator upkeep and maintenance), -80°C freezer maintenance (scraping ice and washing filters), tissue culture LN2 cell dewars, ordering LN2 tanks, TC cell line notebook/inventories, Bjorklab online inventories (cell lines, constructs, vectors, primers), Addgene submissions, animal protocols, order lab supplies (TechMart and HHMI)
Blaise - UltraView spinning disk microscope (@BIC) and TC microscopes (338A)
Collin - PCR machines
Gloria - organization/ordering Macherey-Nagel Maxiprep kits/reagents, autoclave bacterial waste, make LB/antibiotic plates
Han - 70% ethanol, TAE, destain, 10X Laemmli buffers (with and without SDS)
Jennifer - DLS
Louise - centrifuges
Lynn - order lab supplies (HHMI), track orders, check-in and date received packages, purchase ethanol, stock shelves with general lab supplies (tubes, plates, filters, syringes, needles, pipets, pipet tips, office supplies, etc.), autoclave and put away clean glassware, autoclave tips, tubes and bottles, service contract renewals, liaison with sales representatives
Maria - organization/ordering Macherey-Nagel Maxiprep kits/reagents, clean and organize weighing area, autoclave bacterial waste
Mark - high-pressure freezer, AFS (freeze substitution machine), microtome, computers
Marta - Pamela’s assistant, group meeting assignments, Bjorklab web design/update, Bjorklab meeting list, Kronos time keeper, lab roster, annual report coordinator, printer/copier service, PTA/funding coordinator, email reminders (work updates, group meeting food, birthday celebrations, coordinates meetings with Pamela)
Paola - pipetmen and pipet aids, order lab supplies (TechMart), ELISA plate readers, LN2 cell dewars for tissue culture cell lines (backup), ordering LN2 tanks, organize lab primer and vector stocks, Nanodrop and Cary spectrophotometers, pH meter, acid/base stocks for pHing solutions, pH standards
Pavle - Mosquito robot, Fluidigm system
Pri - organization/ordering of plasmid miniprep, PCR cleanup and gel purification kits, radiation safety officer, order lab supplies (TechMart), general TC maintenance (aliquot heat-inactivated FBS, dialyzed heat-inactivated FBS, goat serum, Penn/Strep, L-glutamine, MSX, TC hood and incubator upkeep and maintenance), electroporator
Rachel - water bath maintenance (cleaning and filling the 16°C, 37°C, 42°C and 65°C water baths)
Ron - “old” room temperature AKTA, Millipore concentrators, lab cameras, organize/clean crystallization area, stock general crystallization supplies, crystallography microscopes, LN2 dewar for storing crystals, crystallography incubators
Terri - organization/ordering of restriction enzymes, mutagenesis kits, electro-competent and chemically competent cells, order lab supplies (TechMart), make LB/antibiotic plates
Yunji - 4°C AKTA
