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Money-saving tips
How do I make the most of the time spent in the facililty?
- Estimate cost of experiments
- Have students routinely estimate the cost of experiments…..animals, reagents, antibodies, bench time and facility time. It is a great learning experience and useful for grant writing and running a lab in the future. Carelessness does cost money.
- Bundle appointments
- Instrument billing hours are rounded up to the next ½ hour. If you have 15 min of work on an instrument, find a colleague in your lab that also needs 15 min and make one 30 min appointment.
- No overbooking
- Booking too much time inconveniences fellow researchers. After several abuses we WILL begin to charge for this revenue-losing behavior.
- Choose appropriate microscope
- Confocals cost $30 -35 per hour and the widefield digital microscopes cost $20 -25 per hour. For data collection you often do not need the perfect picture.
- Think ahead. Visit with us about experimental design, controls and proper samples for setup. The more prepared you are, the faster you can collect data.
- Sorting! Do you really NEED to sort?
- Pretest samples on benchtop cytometers. Fill out our presort sheet (available on-line) and review to be clear about timing and costs.