Onboarding

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General access to lab resources

• Ask Dr. Gatins to add you to our Lab Slack Channel
• Share your email with Dr. Gatins to gain access to our Google Drive. This will give you editing access to:
  • the lab webpage, where you can add yourself to the People page
  • A shared lab resources folder
  • The Gatins Lab calendar
• Create a GitHub account (if you don’t have one already) and ask me to add you as a collaborator to this protocols page
• Add your contact information to the Gatins Lab Contact information sheet

General MSC requirements

Navigate to the Gatins Lab Onboarding Docs to find all the documents listed below

• Fill out the Intake form for the MSC
• Read the Lab Safety Plan and electronically sign the Lab Safety Agreement and Lab Access Waiver, these forms should be sent to Ryan Hill, and CC Dr. Gatins as well.

MSC Setup

• Email Ryan Hill about getting ID card access to campus facilities, including the main Edwards building, the bunker, and the lab (Edwards 134).
• In order to print at the MSC, you can connect to each printer using its unique IP address:

B&W Printer - Grad Trailer - 10.30.13.247 Color Printer - Faculty Hallway - 10.30.13.248 B&W Printer - Faculty Hallway - 10.30.13.249

Molecular lab

• Ask Dr. Gatins to add you to the Gatins Lab group on SciSchield (BioRaft)

Complete the following trainings on SciSchield:

• Laboratory Safety Program Orientation
• Fundamentals of Laboratory Safety
• Hazardous Waste Training
• Biosafety Training
• Cryogenic Liquids
• Regulated Medical Waste
• any other training specific to your work

Contact Rosie from the Ocean Genome Legacy Center to schedule the following trainings:

• Shared Equipment Training
• Autoclave
• Cryogeneics (Liquid Nitrogen)

Complete the following Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) tasks:

• Ask Dr. Gatins to add you to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Animal Care and Use protocol.
• Complete the Animal Contact Questionnare and send the form with your immunization records to Erin Credle (e.credle@northeastern.edu).
• Review the Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine (DLAM) & IACUC Training Course on Canvas
• Take the “Assessment Quiz for Working with Rodents”

Add your photo to the lab board! Link to profile template here.