How-to-Start Biolab

Optical Microscopy (026/027) Access

Please follow the guidelines of the OM Wiki page: Access to the Optical Microscopy (OM) Facility

Biolab (114/115) Access

To get access OR before YOU start work in the S2 SupraFAB Biolab (BA unit), follow the steps below:

1. Register as new user for SupraFAB by writing to safety@suprafab.fu-berlin.de, provide personal info (name, working group, status/activity, office and laboratory room number) and confirm your particiaption in the next SupraFAB safety briefing taking place usually the first Monday of the month, 10:00 - 12:00 (if you do not get a confirmation, please write another email or contact the SupraFAB coordinator or secratary in room 102 or 203, see SupraFAB Homepage). 

2. Fill the transponder form with work safety questionaire (2. page), let it sign by your research group head, bring it to the on-site Intro and finally hand in to Katharina Tebel (office 103) or Achim Wiedekind (office 102).

3. Participate in the SupraFAB safety briefing (the date you should have receievd in your registration confirmation email) before starting lab work and let confirm your particiaption by a signature on the transponder form.

4. Book a biolab On-site Intro (dates & booking: see table) by sending and email to the respective biolab technician with the Biolab Technicians and let confirm your particiaption by a signature on the transponder form.

Note: Scientific guests as well as non-scientific staff such as service personal from companies also need to get introduced by one of the PIs for genetic engeeneering (see Biolab Team & Lab Phone Numbers). The introducution and documentation forms and slides can be found on the safety intro page (https://wikis.fu-berlin.de/x/pQhVT). The documentation forms and permission forms need to be stored in the repsective folder in office 111.

If you passed the on-site intro & you got transponder access some more action for full access is needed:

1. (Optional) In case you do NOT have a FUB Email, apply with help of the your cooperating FUB research group for a guest zedat account.
2. Subscribe to the Biolab Email List and join the biolab whatsapp group for quick exchange of information.
3. Register for the instrument booking system OpenIRIS by following the pdf protocols on the OpenIRIS Booking System page and book devices always via: https://fub.openiris.io/.
4. Get access to the  BCP-storage network drives to safe and transfer your measurement data.
5. To access the OM facility microscopes, follow the instructions on the Optical Microscopy Wiki.
6. In case you need to access the microfluidics, bacterial or virus lab, you need an additional practical training by the respective lab responsible person and you need to obey the S2/RG2 Pathogen Lab Rules and to register pathogens in the wiki.
7. Hazardous substances and chemicals must be registers in CLAKS, the chemical data base of FUB

For printing, please use the Multi-User FollowMe-Printers (currently you have to use the one located in Takustr. 3 or any other institute building).

More information about SupraFAB you can find on the SupraFAB homepage and the SupraFAB wiki.

Biolab On-site Intros: Dates & Booking

Sent an email to inform the persons offering the intro and to know the exact time and meeting point; if we receive no emails for a date, the intro will not take place.