- Consultation
- Email ceatk@mail.ubc.ca to discuss your experiment and whether the facility can provide appropriate services for your needs.
- Fill out a sample request form
- Download the sample request form and email it to ceatk@mail.ubc.ca
- Submit an open JV to Suzette de Jesus
- Internal users should submit a signed, open JV to sdejesus@mail.ubc.ca, telling her that it is for the HRMEM facility.
- Register with iLab to be able to view the instrument schedules
- Buy the supplies you will need
- Please see our ‘What to Bring’ page for the consumables we request the user supplies.
- Vitrobot training
- Schedule a training session to learn how to use the Vitrobot.
- We can freeze samples for you but we recommend that regular users undergo training to enable independent use.
- Freeze grids
- Freeze up to 11 grids for screening.
- Screening session/ Screening training
- Schedule a screening session to look at your samples.
- During this screening session we can carry out training so that you can learn to screen grids independently.
- It may take multiple screening sessions to find a good condition.
- Data collection/ EPU training
- Schedule an overnight data collection session.
- During the setup for data collection we can carry out a training for using the EPU software for automated data collection .
- Data Analysis
- The user will analyse the data themselves.
Please read our ‘What to Expect’ page for more information about the project workflow.