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  1. No food or beverages are allowed in the MEAD Lab.

  2. All MEAD Lab users must be certified by the SBU Environmental Health and Safety hazardous substances training course. For course times or self-certification, visit the following web page and follow the instructions.

  3. Absolutely no radioactive materials are allowed in the MEAD Lab.

  4. Absolutely no Ethidium Bromide is allowed to be used in the MEAD Lab. The one and only exception to this rule will be that EtBr gels will be allowed on the gel imager. However, these gels must be disposed of in the user lab that generated them, not in the MEAD Lab. Those imaging EtBr gels must wipe the imager surface and any other affected areas thoroughly when they are finished.

  5. The following types of waste MUST be disposed of in the labeled receptacles in the fume hood. Waste receptacles must be kept covered. When a receptacle is getting full, please alert or .

    1. Alcohol solutions greater than 30% (including PE and other solutions from Qiagen and other prep kits).

    2. Organic liquid waste. As of 3/1/05 no organics are in use in the MEAD lab. If you would like permission to use an organic solvent in the lab, please contact Mike Doall or John True.

    3. Used 96 well plates from the DNA sequence analyzer, which contain formamide (Hi-Dye). The septa will be removed and reused. Place tape over the wells and then place the plate in the receptacle (a box or a bucket).

  6. New users must contact Mike Doall or John True to get certified on the MEAD instruments that they would like to use prior to working in the lab independently.

  7. Only Mike Doall and John True, and a few others who have been trained, are allowed to operate the DNA sequence analyzer.

  8. Genomic DNA preps and PCR must be performed in the separate labeled areas, in order to minimize possible contamination. The pipettors are labeled for either genomic or PCR use. Also, the door to the Futuyma lab should be kept closed.

  9. MEAD Lab usage must be logged on the log sheets found on the clipboards for each instrument/work area.

  10. All users must leave work areas as neat or neater than they found them. If you are stepping out of the lab for more than a few minutes, you must clean up the work area before you do so (i.e. do not leave solution bottles uncapped or pipettors haphazardly around).

  11. If you leave the MEAD Lab after 5 PM and no one else is present, close and lock the door and make sure the door to the Futuyma lab is closed.

  12. Do not leave valuables in the MEAD Lab, including data notebooks. There are many keys to the room around and it is unlocked for most of the day. MEAD staff are not responsible for lost items.

  13. All MEAD equipment must stay in room 662 unless specifically permitted by Mike Doall or John True.

  14. If you are publishing data that was obtained using the MEAD Lab facility, we request that you include the following (or similar) acknowledgement in your paper:
    "[type of work] was performed in the Stony Brook MEAD Laboratory, which was funded by an instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation with matching funds from Stony Brook University."

  15. MEAD Lab usage for classes (e.g. BIO 367/BEE 567) will take precedence over research uses on specific scheduled days. These schedulings will be posted at least one week in advance, so that MEAD users can plan around them.

  16. Keys are available for certified users to work in the MEAD Lab after hours. If an emergency occurs after hours, contact John True or Mike Doall (numbers posted in the MEAD Lab) as soon as possible.
    (Obviously, for emergencies involving fire, chemical spills, floods, injuries, etc., contact University emergency personnel first, then contact John or Mike.)
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