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Labs in lockdown

Posted by , on 13 March 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has led to travel restrictions, conference cancellations and university closures. How do labs function in various states of lockdown? What happens to model organisms and long running experiments? On the personal side, how can we counter the loss of lab camaraderie? And education – how can you run a course from home?

Here, we’ve collated a bunch of Twitter threads that deal with some of these issues, which hopefully will be relevant to many of you. If you have any questions for the community, or plans you would like to share, we’d love to hear from you – just comment below the post, or register here to write your own post.

 

This thread from Alex Shier’s lab on March 8 described how the lab would be working from now on.

 

Can we run labs on one person shifts?

 

The Soragni lab is moving remotely as much as possible

 

How Stephen Floor’s lab are approaching working from home

 

Maren Friesen shared her coronovirus lab plans:

 

Suspending lab access in Harvard:

 

Giulia Biffi, a PI in Cambridge:

 

A plea to funding bodies to consider mitigating actions

 

Lots of ideas in this tweet and replies.

 

The Yaniv lab is Staying positive

 

 

The Gallego lab is using the lockdown as a chance to become better, computationally speaking

 

48 hours to shut down the Bardelli lab in Italy

 

And, please don’t do this, PIs!

 

A thread on zebrafish emergency preparedness

 

 

Seems like C. elegans researchers are a little less worried!

 

To fight social isolation, why not set up a virutal coffee break?

 

Or a virtual happy hour?

 

Keep educating: a thread on how to use Zoom to lecture from home

 

A perspective on online learning from the Open University

 

Online courses could help fill your days

 

Cancelled conferences? Why not share your talk and poster online:

 

Indeed we are planning to help with this for the BSDB Spring meeting, which would have started on Sunday. More info here:

eBSDB/GenSoc 2020 plans

 

Virtual seminar series – more ideas in the replies

 

Help for conference organisers from OSF

 


Please let us know if you find any other useful links.

 

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