Lab Reagent Helping List

Someone in our department just came out a very good idea, called laphelp mailing list. Just thought maybe someone will be interested doing similar things in his/her own institutes.

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Dear all!

Everyone knows how frustrating it is when you are halfway through your experiment, and you find out that one of the (common) reagents is out. Or you're looking for someone who has experience with a technique that you want to set up. Or you're looking to get that particular vector that is crazy expensive from Invitrogen, and not available from the common stocks, but that you really would like to have.

For these purposes I have set up the mailing list "labhelp". Anyone who is a member of this list can email the list with questions about reagents, techniques or other lab-related business. These emails will be sent to all your colleagues in the list throughout the department (for the time being). If the system works well, I plan to expand it to more departments.

The advantages are obvious:

- You get your reagents quickly
- It will improve interaction between the different groups (and departments)
- It will save loads of money
- It will improve your experiments
- Etc etc.

The only action YOU have to take for all these advantages is to send your email address to me, so that I can add you to this list. Only people on this list can email to and receive email from this list!

I hope you'll like this initiative and want to be part of it! Please let me know if you have suggestions to exchange lab-related knowledge within the department and between other departments.

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