Volume 8 Issue 1 | January 2013
| January 23 2013
Step one, change your mindset While there are specific skills one needs to develop in order to be an effective manager, there are also five mental attitudes or mindsets that aspiring managers need to develop. Specific proficiencies such as oral communication and time management skills are not enough without cultivating these mindsets. These mindsets will determine how you interpret or respond to situations likely to occur in laboratory management.
| January 30 2013
Analytical Food Laboratories (AFL) in Grand Prairie, Texas, has come a long way since it was started in 1992 by president/ CEO Rebecca Pfundheller.
Step one, change your mindset While there are specific skills one needs to develop in order to be an effective manager, there are also five mental attitudes or mindsets that aspiring managers need to develop. Specific proficiencies such as oral communication and time management skills are not enough without cultivating these mindsets. These mindsets will determine how you interpret or respond to situations likely to occur in laboratory management.
Strategies for reducing risk and growing your business
An often overlooked practice critical to passing on key aspects of scientific knowledge. Mentoring is broadly acknowledged within academia, government agencies, and commercial enterprises as an effective tool for the development and nurture of scientific and technical personnel— one that also provides important economic advantages. Yet in numerous public and private sector research and service laboratories in the United States, mentoring activities are hardly situated anywhere near center stage.
Science Matters: What it Takes to Have Successful Vendor Relationships
Nurturing good relationships in business is a lot like doing the same in our personal lives. And just like in our personal lives, a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to any type of relationship usually won’t work. However, it can be wise to take at least a page or two from the book of successful relationship strategies when you’re considering how to best manage a business relationship.
A Positive Approach to More Successful Relationships and Communications
I’ll never forget an experience I had when I was running my advertising agency. I felt we needed a fresh look for our own branding and marketing, and so I called in a designer who had been recommended to me by a colleague. Even before she sat down in my office, she began criticizing almost everything we were doing. According to her, our colors were wrong, our logo wasn’t balanced, our home page didn’t send the right message …
Labs are from Mars, IT Departments are from Venus
Understanding each other's needs and priorities is key to a good working relationship
Fixing the Top 8 Lab Chemical Management Errors
Step One: Get your chemical inventory under control In October 2012, Lab Manager Magazine, along with ChemSW Inc., hosted a Product Spotlight webinar, "How to Find and Fix the Top Eight Lab Chemical Management Errors." Jon Webb, senior technical specialist and inventory consultant at ChemSW, gave a brief presentation on the challenges of chemical inventory and data management and outline some of the common errors that exist in labs today. He discussed best practices in chemical inventory...
How to design and implement a successful lockout/tag out program for your facililty For those not familiar with this acronym, LOTO refers to lockout/tag out, the process by which equipment is put into a safe condition so repairs or maintenance can take place.
This is the cornerstone of a good safety program. It’s a statement endorsed and supported by the administration that speaks to the fundamental responsibilities for health and safety in the academic institution or company.
ASK THE EXPERT : Trends in Bioinformatics
Joel Dudley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Director of Biomedical Informatics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, talks to contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, Ph.D. about the current changes impacting bioinformatics. While data generation gets simpler and less expensive, data search and interpretation remain a formidable challenge. Lack of standardization in data nomenclature and analysis tools continues to spur innovation in the creation of custom software programs and services. Since there exists no easy, one-stop shop for data management, Dudley advises lab managers to leverage their core facilities for bioinformatics, to look out for emerging software companies, and to get creative with informatics tools when tackling complex integrative biology.
There are many different signs that it’s time to upgrade your fume hood, but vendors say safety is the number one reason.
Bar-Based and Overhead Platforms Make New Ways to Mix
Researchers use stirrers for many laboratory applications, from dissolving powders to mixing reagents. To get the right results, it takes more than placing a stir bar into a vessel and turning on the stirring device.
Connectivity, Compliance Leading Features
Markus Jansons, product manager for weighing at A&D Weighing (San Jose, CA), correctly notes that analytical balances are a mature product category and that “everybody has one.”
Central Component for Lab Automation
Automated liquid handling (ALH) is arguably the main attraction in life sciences laboratory automation.
Technologies Even Enhance Samples for Specialized Assays
Filtration makes up a key procedure in a wide range of laboratories, from basic biological and chemical research to industrial applications, including food processing, pharmaceuticals, and more.
Old Solution to New Analysis Problems
Refractometers come in all sizes, shapes, capabilities, and prices
Are You In the Market For An Electronic Laboratory Notebook?
Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs), one component of a lab’s information infrastructure, help laboratories capture and manage knowledge, streamline data management, protect intellectual property and foster collaboration.
Are You In the Market for a Rotary Evaporator?
A rotary evaporator, found in every chemistry lab, allows users to perform chemical separation or purification using heat and agitation—or stirring—under vacuum. Key applications for evaporators include sample concentration, solvent recycling, extractions, and separation of solvent mixtures.
Are You In the Market for a Mass Spectrometer?
Mass spectrometers, measuring the mass-to-charge ratio of charged particles to determine their molecular weight, have not quite become a routine acquisition for every lab that might benefit from them. Four parts are standard in all mass spectrometers: a sample inlet, an ionization source, a mass analyzer and an ion detector.
Growing Up: A Laboratory That Got Its Start in Food Twenty Years Ago Continues to Expand
Analytical Food Laboratories (AFL) in Grand Prairie, Texas, has come a long way since it was started in 1992 by president/ CEO Rebecca Pfundheller.
• Designed to be added to many different types of optical microscopes • Offers very high sensitivity, high resolution, a broad spectral range and rapid sampling times • Enables scientists and engineers to measure the Raman spectra from microscopic samples or microscope sampling areas of large samples, such as semiconductors
A Sample Lysis & DNA Extraction Workstation
Problem: Forensic labs in the US are faced with backlogs of samples waiting to be processed.
Cross-contamination of human cell lines with other cell lines and/or misidentification of cell cultures is reported to be 18?36 percent.
Pipetting is a fundamental activity for a laboratory scientist. Almost every experiment requires small and precise volumes of liquid to be transferred from one container to another.
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