Onboarding
Here are our resources to get you onboarded in the lab!
What is onboarding? The dictionary definition is : "the action or process of integrating a new employee into an organization or familiarizing a new customer or client with one's products or services."
In terms of our lab, the purpose of onboarding is to get you familiar with the specifics of the Putnam Lab, and what is expected of you as a member of the lab and as a part of the greater URI community.
The Putnam Lab has the overarching goal aiming for integrative, rigorous, equitable, and collaborative research. The Putnam Lab also believes that the scientific endeavor is best served by transparent and reproducible work. We all share the goal to participate in open science and share not only outcomes but process.
As a member of the lab you must also follow the URI Student Code of Conduct, and this applies to all levels of students and all staff as a part of this lab and the URI community.
All lab members must read and sign the Putnam Lab Agreement Document when joining the lab. Inside you will find expectations for being a lab remember as well as the expectations of Dr. Putnam as a mentor. It also includes a Code of Conduct that is very important that we all follow to keep a collaborative, constructive, and conscientious atmosphere. This is a living document, so if you feel that there should be changes please bring it up with Dr. Putnam.
All Putnam Lab members are expected to keep an online laboratory notebook, see the Electronic Lab Notebook wiki page for all information.
Email Dr. Putnam and request to be added to the Lab Slack Group. Other Slack groups to request access to are the P3 and PPPkidz for the shared PPP labs. Ask any of the Putnam Lab members to send you an invite.
Email Dr. Putnam and request to be added to the Lab Calendar (Lab Happenings and meetings).
Sign up for a Github account. Email Dr. Putnam with your Github username and request to be added to the Lab Github Group. Additionally, ask Dr. Putnam to share with you a private repository for sharing your files and opening issues.
Email Dr. Putnam to request to be added to the Lab Google Drive. Additionally, ask Dr. Putnam to share with you a private Google Drive folder for sharing your files.
Email Dr. Putnam to request to be added to the Teamup PPP reservation calendar.
Follow the instructions for URI HPC access here and here.
- All graduate students need to complete following lab safety trainings on the Lab Safety wiki page
- You will need to complete an Individual Development Plan
- Graduate student offices are either on the first floor in room 167 or on the fourth floor (452). Send Dr. Putnam a request for a desk space.
- Obtain your student ID card from URI. Email Dr. Putnam with your ID number and request access to 180, 190, Loading Dock, and your office number.
- Additional information about the BES graduate school program can be found here as well as:
- URI PhD requirements
- URI master's degree requirements
- EMB specialization program details
- EMB curriculum (yes the name is wrong but the information is correct)
- ALL GRADUATE SCHOOL FORMS
- General program timeline
- URI graduate school manual
- URI graduate school academic calendar
- Committee composition infographic
- Navigating the Grad Program powerpoint 2018 and Navigating the Grad Program powerpoint 2016
- If you are enrolling as an in-state student, use this link to prove you live in Rhode Island
- URI Grad Student Union
- Graduate student fee payment plan and here
- Housing listings
- All post-docs need to complete following lab safety trainings on the Lab Safety wiki page
- You will need to complete an Individual Development Plan
- Postdoc offices are on the fourth floor. Send Dr. Putnam a request for a desk space.
- Obtain your ID card from URI. Email Dr. Putnam with your ID number and request access to 180, 190, Loading Dock, and your office number.
- The funding resources listed below include common funding opportunities for postdoctoral researchers. This list is not exhaustive - search for additional funding opportunities specific to your research (e.g., discipline-specific funding opportunities, international travel awards).
- National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology
- National Science Foundation Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- L'Oreal USA Women Fellowship in Science
- Graduate Women in Science Fellowship
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change Fellowship
- Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Biology
- Smith Conservation Research Fellowship
- Community list of independent postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in a Google collaborative list
- Community list of ecology, evolution, and quantitative postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in a Google collaborative list
- EcoEvo Jobs opportunity list
- US Fulbright Program
- Postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to expand professional development and professional skills.
- Faculty Diversity
- Postdoc Academy
- Complete required Lab Safety Trainings Lab Safety wiki page
- Email Dr. Putnam with your ID number and request access to 180, 190, and Loading Dock.
- Dr. Putnam will work with you on a mentoring plan.
Getting connected to the URI WiFi can be a process. You want to be connected to the URI Secure network see here. Additionally you can go to the IT office in the library LL19, which is on the bottom floor. They can connect your phone and your computer.
Under Construction following shift from ListServ to Google Groups
The building manager for CBLS is Oliver Palmer (oliver_palmer@uri.edu) and can help with getting key card access to rooms in the building, printer access, and any questions about the building or in emergencies. His office is on the lower floor by the loading dock, but is often out and around the building.
The main molecular and organismal lab space is in CBLS 180 and 190.Dr. Putnam's office is room 191. 190 is the organismal half of the lab where all "dirty" lab processes occur (ie, microscope imaging, titration, air brushing, filtration, anything with seawater, etc). Room 180 is the molecular half of the lab, where DNA, RNA, and protein work is carried out. Our lab spaces in 180 and 190 are shared with the Prada Lab and the Puritz Lab, where most large equipment is shared between labs, but lab benches and storage spaces are allocated separately. See the diagram below for an outline of the molecular lab. Please be respectful of all other researchers when working in the lab because it is a shared space.
On the lower level of CBLS in room 92 is the aquarium tank space for coral culture, desk for organismal work, and an incubator for coral culture.
On the lower level of CBLS in room 92 is supply and field gear storage.
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