To get access to the OM facility as new user, follow the procedure below step by step.
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.
- Particpate in person in the annual safety briefing (mandatory before entering the micrscope labs)
(a) for the Leica SP8-2 located in Takustr. 6 contact AG Heyd for information about the safety briefing.
(b) for all other microscopes located in SupraFAB (Altensteinstr. 23a) the next safety briefing will take place June 3rd 2024 at10am, room 119 (in case you need access before, watch the recorded safety briefing) & become familiar with the SupraFAB safety guidelins, instructions and rules.
Note: To keep access, it is mandatory to attend the safety briefing in person at least once a year. - Watch the video about confocal microscopy and the OM video tutorial.
After you got the safety briefing & you watched the videos, make an appointment with the Keyuser* of your research group, to get practical training (2-3 session with your own samples) & an intro in the OM Guidelines, the BioSupraMol User Guidelines, data handling (network) as well as the SupraFAB House Rules. After successful training, ask your keyuser to confirm your successful training by sending an email to Katharina Achazi and Marta Maglione.
In case you have no Keyuer or you want to use the ZEISS AiryScan confocal with PicoQuant FLIM/FCS module or the Abberior STED microscope, contact Marta Maglione or Katharina Achazi; for the Nicon TIRF microscopes contact Stephan Block.*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.
If you passed the training and safety briefing, more action for full access is needed:
- To get access to the rooms, fill the access & transponder form with work safety questionaire (3. page) and get it signed by Marta Magliuone or Katharina Achazi to confirm your safety and micrscope training. The filled and signed form hand in to Katharina Tebel (office 103) or Achim Wiedkind (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!#
- 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.
