Onboarding

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Find the most recent onboarding information in the Larkum Lab Google Drive.

Basics

Register with as member of the lab
- Serenella
Transponder (key)
- Oded
Laboratory safety instructions
- Oded
Larkumlab Slack
- Anyone existing lab member can create an add for you, and Slack admins (Oded, Matthew or Hatem) automatically receive a notification and would approve the request.
Desk space
- Matthew/Robert

Approvals for working with animals

By default you DO NOT have permission to touch an animal, or a slice of an animal
To work wit animals you must
- have a Felasa B certificate
  - To apply for one:
    - Get your supervisor approval, he should check with Matthew
    - Ask Oded to sign-up
- By added, and wait for approval to be added, onto an animal protocol
  - You can only work on protocols you are approved
  - Protocols category are either T-Protocol (Terminal) or G-Protocols
    - T protocols:
      - Only slicing, no prior injection, no prior training, no nothing. First interaction with a mouse is the last one.
      - Currently, they are reviewed, rejected or approved internally by Charite
      - Ask the animal-protocol handling person to add you
        Current responsible person: Lukas
    - G protocols
      - For handling mice, surgeries and training
      - G protocols are quite restrictive:
        Each protocol has subprotocols
        
        Each subprotocol has only certain procedures, drugs and animal lines approved on them
      - You can get add to G-protocol (and automatically approved on all its subprotocols) *but* you might only get approved for certain procedures of that protocol, not all the allowed procedures.
      - Applying for new G protocols or current protocols amendments are reviewed, rejected or approved by LAGeSo
      - NEVER perform a procedure that is not approved on your protocol
      - Ask the animal-protocol handling person to add you
        Current responsible person: Lukas
    - For all the protocols, we have to submit to the authorities (in March) a report about our animal and drugs usage.
      - Therefore, it's of utmost importance to keep our animal record correct and up-to-date
Access to the animal faculties
- Consult your supervisor first
- CCO Animal Facility access Dr. Vet. Claudia Abramjuk.
- AOCF Facility access Melissa Long: melissa.long@charite.de
For ordering animals and checking on the current animals status we use Pyrat:
- Pyrat account Oded/Lukas/Narda/Robert
  - (when you have Felasa, and are on our protocols, we write to Roland Schonebeck and he adds people to Pyrat)
- Ask a lab member to show you how to use it

IT

Humboldt Email account:
- Oded / Serenella
Wired Internet connection
- Oded
- Get the form from
  - https://neurocure.de/files/neurocure/PDFs/Welcome%20Service/Netzwerk-Anmeldung_Fremdgeraet.pdf

Larkumlab mailing list
- Oded

Ordering

Start from Ordering Q&A

Steps:

First consult your supervisor
Add orders to QUARTZY,
Check with your supervisor about approved orders.
Check for updates on Quartzy_order_update page

Onboarding

From Larkum Lab

Contents

Basics

Approvals for working with animals

IT

Ordering