Research Resources Reporter: November 2024
CONTENTS
- BadgerConnect Flash Talk Library
- Low Code Solutions Looking to Collaborate with Research Cores
- LabCoP Events
- Laser Safety
- New Faculty Director of CBSRI
- Core Highlight
- Question of the Month
- Shout-outs
BadgerConnect Flash Talk Library
If you missed BadgerConnect Research Services Fair, you can still access flash talk content here! Find out what many UWCCC cores provide for resources and services.
Low Code Solutions Looking to Collaborate with Research Cores
Attention core managers: Low Code Solutions, is available for all of UW-Madison from DoIT. In addition to training other IT professionals on how to develop applications on the platform, our service also builds applications for areas that don’t have their own IT staff.
The Low Code Solutions team is looking for a couple of Lab/Core Managers to work collaboratively with our team to determine if there are any “administrative” processes that could be migrated to our platform. For example:
Are there fillable pdfs being filled out and then sent around to get approvals?
Are there spreadsheets that multiple people are using that could benefit from being more secure and less likely to get corrupted by too many people accessing them?
Please see our website page ‘Is Low Code Solutions right for me? ‘ for more ideas that may be a good fit. My team would like to have a conversation to see if we could offer assistance.
Please contact jhains@wisc.edu, or if you have an idea, please feel free to fill out our customer support form on our website.
LabCoP Events
Lab Management- Community of Practice
LabCoP focuses on community driven best practices for lab management professionals at UW-Madison. Communities of practice serve many purposes. Collaborate with colleagues who share similar challenges. Share your expertise. Join us to discuss ways to optimize lab and core success. This community is for anyone who is in a lab management role including research labs, core labs and instructional labs. Join here!
November 2024: AI tools for recorded meetings, use and policy
Join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from 11am until 12pm as we learn more about AI tools for recorded meetings, use and policy with Em Craft, Research IT Manager, UW Madison’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID).
Laser Safety
Laser Safety Training
Laser safety training is essential for anyone working with or around lasers by enhancing awareness and minimizing risks.
The Office of Radiation Safety offers an online Laser Worker Training Course through Canvas. This is a basic laser safety course that satisfies the laser training requirement for all users of Class 3B and 4 lasers. The course contents were developed by the Department of Energy (DOE), which consists of 10 modules that cover: the fundamentals of laser operation, potential hazards associated with lasers, and ways to control the hazards.
The online training is not a substitute for hands-on job-specific training. It serves as a guideline of best practices for a procedures, methods, and tasks related to laser safety.
Link to Radiation Safety 107: Laser Safety Training
https://ehs.wisc.edu/training/?roles%5B%5D=31&topics%5B%5D=32
New Faculty Director of CBSRI
Welcome Dr. Tanja Dominko, DVM, PhD, a Professor in the Division of Transplantation and the new Faculty Director of the Center for Biomedical Swine Research and Innovation (CBSRI). As the Faculty Director of CBSRI, Dr. Dominko will provide leadership for the Center to further develop genetically engineered swine models for bio-medical pre-clinical and translational research.
Core Highlight
The Walnut Street Greenhouse is an on-campus Agricultural Research Station and supports more than 70 plant-research scientists who train more than 150 postdoc/graduate students and numerous undergraduate students. The CALS/ARS greenhouses are primarily used by: Horticulture, Botany, Plant Pathology, Forest & Wildlife Ecology, Soil Science, Genetics, Agronomy, Biochemistry, Landscape Architecture, Entomology and Zoology. Among their many resources are numerous controlled greenhouses, large autoclave and multiple growth chambers.
The greenhouses have 72 individual houses of varying size, providing 15,000 square feet of bench space, of which 70% is air-conditioned. 46 coldframes furnish an additional 3,800 square feet of space dedicated to plant research. See more facility information here.
Question of the Month!
We need your feedback! Email Sarah Brodnick (skkorinek@wisc.edu) with your answer to the following question:
“What does your core use to ensure method citations?”
Shout-outs
Kathryn Fox, has been working in the UWCCC Flow Cytometry Laboratory since 2015 and is our Technical Manger. Kathryn spends a lot of time training researchers in Flow, Image, and Spectral Cytometry as well as in cell sorting. She earned her PhD in Cancer Biology in the Sugden Lab here at the Cancer Center in 2011, and worked as a technical applications scientist for Bruker Microscopy before joining the Flow Lab in 2015. Kathryn’s wealth of knowledge and experience has been critical to supporting many research projects utilizing Flow Lab technology. In addition to supporting research on campus, she also supports our core with her excellent organizational skills, for example, overseeing the many complicated steps necessary to installing our newest cell sorter, the BD FCSDiscover S8 with CellView(TM) Technology, now open for use. She is a joy to work with and always willing to help researchers with experimental design, data analysis, and especially loves trying new assays on our instruments. She is also involved in beta testing new instrumentation in our collaboration with ThermoFisher. Kathryn is dedicated to sharing her knowledge, teaching our Introduction to Flow Cytometry class, training new users on our various instruments, as well as teaching the Introduction to Antibody Staining lab and biosafety lecture at the Annual Course in Cytometry.
Want to thank or recognize a core staff member who went above and beyond to support your research or the research of a core user? Email Sarah Brodnick (skkorinek@wisc.edu) with the individual’s name and a sentence or two about why they deserve a shout-out. Shout-outs will also be posted at https://research.wisc.edu/research-cores/research-resources-reporter/.