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

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More on-boarding steps:

- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l-kXgbeEIQSz_Z7iFfyX-4nNEBFYtb2O