Establishing a New SRL Facility: From Lab Design, Instrument Purchase, Understanding Your User Base

The Presenters

Gelo Dela Cruz
Danish Stem Cell Center
Denmark

Peter Lopez
NYU School of Medicine
New York

Michael Thomson
Monash Health Translation Precinct
Australia

Session Summary

In establishing a new SRL Facility, or comprehensively upgrading an existing one, many factors have to be considered beyond the scope of purchasing an instrument and hiring someone to operate it. There is a wealth of expertise and published literature that can act as a guide, but major challenges arise in order to successfully implement the best practices needed to have a functional and productive SRL. It is the task of the new facility manager to gather detailed information about the need for the core facility and refine this knowledge to get a realistic image and plan to set up and equip the shared resource lab.

Session Overview

• Selecting the right manager and support staff.
• Ensuring the dedicated space fulfils the needs for now and the future, depending on the space allocated, or the space that can be made.
• Understanding your user base, the direction of the institute, the access to other SRLs, and basing instrument purchases and infrastructure construction around these.
• Funding considerations: allocating and ensuring money streams to fulfil the needs and wants of the SRL.
• Ancillary equipment and infrastructure considerations beyond flow cytometers.

CMLE Credit: 1.5