Greetings

Hello, and welcome to the Laboratory for Living Interfaces. Here is some info about the lab and a checklist of to-dos when you join. This is a living document. See something that you think should be here? Please add it!

1. Lab Safety To-Dos

1. Have Elizabeth Hénaff add you to the lab’s SciSheild (BioRaft) account. To access SciSheild go to
2. Lab safety to-dos
1. Get Elizabeth to add you to the lab BioRaft. To access BioRaft go to home.nyu.edu, then search for BioRaft
2. Go through the necessary trainings for lab safety (you will receive emails from BioRaft once you’re signed up)
3. Get your C14 certification
1. NYU training: Go to Bioraft > Go to training > click on course directory > click on intro to certificate of Fitness (C14)
2. FDNY certification: go here for online application to either take the exam or apply with educational exemption. More info here on how to fill out those forms.
4. Print out a copy of your C14 and tape it to the outside of the lab door
3. Digital infrastructure to-dos
1. Get Elizabeth to add you to the shared Google Drive
2. Get Elizabeth to add you to the henafflab listserv email
3. Add your contact info here
4. Add your C14 here
5. Join the Slack channel
6. Join the 3 Hénaff Lab Goggle Calendars. Once added to the calendars, please use the appropriate calendar for scheduling events as listed below
1. Hénaff Lab 📈Meetings & Events in Blue use this for meetings, events, and non-wet lab reminders.
2. Hénaff Lab In|Out ✈️ in mango. use this to mark when you will be out of town/away for any extended period. These events should be marked as ‘all-day events,’ so they are at the top of the calendar instead of taking up hourly calendar real estate.
3. HL 🧬 Lab IRL (RH807) in eucalyptus green use this for any in lab/Rodgers Hall 807 work.
7. Connect to NYU Greene Supercomputer (HPC)
1. Notes on how to get started with the HPC (and Bioinformatics) are located here.
2. Support Help for the NYU GREENE HPC can be found here.
3. NYU HPC tutorials, workshops, and one-on-one consultations are offered regularly throughout the academic year. Find out more information about these events here.
4. Check out the SOP folder for Standard Operating Procedures for a lot of the things we do in the lab, including:
1. Waste
2. Safety Inspections
3. PPE
4. Bringing environmental samples into the lab
5. storing/removing samples in freezer
6. Have a new protocol? Write it up using our SOP template
5. Ordering things. NYU uses a purchasing system called IBuy.
1. The IBuy system can be found at NYU Home > Ibuy
2. If you can’t log in to it, email Elizabeth
3. Test run:
1. Find a lab coat of your liking
2. Make a cart with your item and assign to Elizabeth using her NYU email as search term: emh9@nyu.edu
6. Lab Tunes
1. Connect to bluetooth speakers at “MBTube”
7. Contacts
1. General NYU facilities

Lab members

(Don’t forget to add your contact information to the list