To get access to the OM facility as new user please follow the procedure below.
In case, your group never used the OM facility before ask your research group head to register to the booking system OpenIris via the request "Register with BioSupraMol/SupraFAB (BCP) @ FU-Berlin" and to contact the core-facility coordinator Mathias Dimde for establishing group access to the BCP-storage.
- Follow the instructions on the How-to-Start: Biolabs & Optical Microscopy webpage to get access to the microscope rooms as they are part of the SupraFAB S2 Biolabs (not necessary for persons that already have access to the S2 SupraFAB Biolab).
- Watch the mandatory OM video tutorial (for use of the Leica confocals) and the video about confocal microscopy; if you will use only the ZEISS AiryScan with PicoQuant module or Abberior STED, you need instead a personal intro & training by Katharina Achazi and Marta Maglione and for the Nicon TIRF microscopes, contact Stephan Block.
Make an appointment with the OM Keyuser* of your research group, to get practical training (2-3 session with your own samples) & intro in the OM Guidelines and the BioSupraMol User Guidelines, the data handling (network) as well as the SupraFAB House Rules carefully.
*Keyuser
An OM Keyuser serves as contact person for the OM staff and will support the OM staff to train new users of the respective research group. If there is no active Keyuser, choose in agreement with the research group head a new Keyuser that will get trained from the OM staff but need to stay for at least 2-3 years and should be experienced in optical (confocal) microscopy.
- Subscribe to the OM Email list. You can use the Email list (om-bsm-suprafab@lists.fu-berlin.de) to sent an Email to all user.
- Register for the instrument booking system OpenIRIS by follwoing the pdf protocols on the OpenIRIS Booking System page. Note: If you have no FUB Email, apply with help of the your research group for a guest zedat Email account.
- Ask your keyuser to add your zedat account to the BCP-storage in the MI portal.
- After successful training, ask your keyuser to confirm your successful training by sending an email to Katharina Achazi and Marta Maglione.
- To get access to the room, fill the access & transponder form with work safety questionaire (3. page). The filled and signed form hand in to Katharina Tebel (office 103) or Achim Wiedking (office 102) to get the requested access permissions and in case dou habe no transponder, an own transponder. Note: The first and third page need to be signed by your reseach group head!
