General policies and procedures:
An individual user may reserve one three-hour block of time during peak hours (8:30am to 5:30pm) and an additional 6 hours of time during off-peak hours. Scheduling can be accomplished using our online calendar system. Cancellations made less than 24 hours in advance and any unused time will be billed for one hour at 75% the standard rate for peak-usage times, or at 25% the standard rate for off-peak times. All users are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the complete list of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) governing the use of the facility. Faculty investigators, research fellows or others who wish to start using the facility must contact the SCIF director for discussion of their experiments, help with study design and assistance with the procedures and product descriptions of reagents they will need to order. The project will then be assigned to the technicians. The SCIF director remains actively involved in the more complex projects and oversees the technical quality of all work produced by the laboratory. After the initial discussion with the SCIF director, experiments can be scheduled through the technicians. The principal investigators are charged for all time and/or work performed in SCIF.
