Related: Career Development & Business MOC
[!info] This MOC focuses on Lab Management and closely associated topics such as leadership, equipment, technology, protocols, and safety.
Lab Management is a huge part of my identity and career, and is a unique blend of research/engineering, operations, stakeholder management, writing, presenting, IT, and science. It involves a lot of technical knowledge of machines, chemicals, and different assays.
Career Relevance
While interviewing for Lab Manager positions at startups, it’s important for me to have some stake in the science in order to better serve as the lab manager. I don’t need to be leading a project, but even participating in some of the work alongside the people.
For Biotech Incubators, I think looking at this from having varied experiences in different startups would be the best.
Online resources
Financial/Business
- Execdr | Exploring the Intersection of Science & Business: Lab operations and funding strategies for more Lab Director level position. More finance strategy related resources.
- Run Your Lab Like a Business | Lab Manager: Recommendations on different equipments and lab products, as well as lab management strategies for things like moving, scale-up, and team leadership
- Building a Dynamic Monthly OPEX Budget template in excel (Youtube): Building Dynamic Monthly Operational (OPEX) Budget Template in Microsoft Excel - YouTube
Second-Hand lab equipment
- Accueil - CAP-LAB: Biggest auction site for lab equipment in Europe/France
HSE / France Legal
- INRS: Non-profit organization created by the French government dedicated to health and safety realted to work.*
Tools to lookup
procurement systems
EHS
Tag Index
- #fumehood for any bscs, sorbonnes, chemical hoods, or hoods in general.
- #chemicalsafety for chemicals in general. Can be accompanied by specific hazards like #cmr #environmenthazard or specific reagents used a lot like #bleach or #h2o2
- #equipment is mostly for equipment breakdowns, but can also be informative workshop notes if it’s with the equipment type, like #flowcytometry, or #pbmc
Management
- types of life science core facilities
- navigating-change-management-in-labs
- managing cables for lab equipment
- encoding barcodes to show text
- cycle inventory + inventory types
- basics of setting up a cell culture
- Small Lab Process hacks
- SOP organization for labs
- ICM - Assistante Ingénieur
- How to defrost a freezer
- Elemental Machines charge per element
- Choosing a lyophilisateur
- Lab Management MOC
- Biolabs - Lab Ops Associate
Safety
BSC mythbusters