Group meetings

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Schedules

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June 11

• Conferences:
  • SMLMS, 27.-29.8., Bonn (deadline 27.6.)
  • Seeing is believing, 8.-11.10., Heidelberg (deadline 2.7.)
• Web page(s)

June 2

• Rescheduled group meetings
• Group Dinner - Pallavi (July)
• Bachelor projects
• Applications
  • Hannah Lankowski
  • Jonas Schedel
  • Yusuf Iris
• Recap retreat
  • pictures
  • what was good/to improve next time?
  • timeline for planning the next retreat
  • laserpointer

May 19

• Safety inspection
• Lab retreat
• İleyna Yılmaz Erasmus+ student
• PhD recruitment June 3-8
• Media Kitchen
• Job advertisements for Bachelor and Master Students

May 5

• Speakers for VBC speaker series
• Summer students: when do they arrive? Some are coming to the retreat...
• Application Hannah Lankowsky
• Retreat: last preparations
• Seminar Florian Schueder
• Group meeting on the 19.5.
• Interview Weiqing on the 6.5.

April 7

• Jonas' travels
• Retreat

March 24

• Visit Fabian, who receives him?
• Lab retreat updates and room selection
• Wet lab upkeep regarding inspection

March 17

• Visit Francesca Bottanelli
  • lunch
  • 1:1s with her
• Lab retreat
• Jonas' chair
• Participation in Freezer challenge (Climate group)

March 10

• Applications
  • Szymon Szostak (July - Sept)
  • Jasmin Berchtold (Master, 1 year from now)
  • Visit Martin postdoc  (today)
• Positions to fill this and next year: participate in Physics PhD selection? 
• new cell culture
• molecular biophysics course 
• Lab Retreat Planning

February 20

• renaming of mailing list: ries.group@lists.maxperutzlabs.ac.at

February 17

• Matlab: still some missing?
• Thursday social - scientific concepts (layman/ breakdown)

February 10

• Philipp's responsibilities as the Lab Manager
• visit Chris, dinner/drinks?
• Hookipa equipment sale
• Application Ankit
• M5 feature priority

January 28

• Join Quantitative Cell Biology Club?
• Lunch with Falk Lab at IMP Cafeteria on Wednesday, January 29th at 12:30 pm
• Application Ankit (Master)
• Matlab (last time)
• Last details for the party
• VBC2 storage furniture
• Visit Chris 

January 20

• Safety inspection on Wednesday
• M5 underbooking
• Purchasing UV transilluminator  (~1000-1300EUR)
• Matlab
• registration of notebooks in ZID network
• aliquoting dyes and using aliquots
• group party

January 13

• PC RIES26 (office) - FIJI doesn't work, too slow, some JAVA issue?
  update: PD FIJI from C drive pinned to task bar, able to run
• Who is waiting for Matlab?
• group party
• onboarding Philipp
• safety inspection

January 8

• FOM deadline
• Group party date
• Retreat
• Vacations (ask Jonas, put into SAP, put into calendar)
• new zoom room

December 16

• FOM 2025 deadline approaching
• TA candidates
• Retreat decide
• Application Adrienne R
• Application  Sidak Grewal

December 9

• TA candidates on Tuesday
• ISTA visit on Thursday?
• Teaching BioOptics course
• Collaboration with Leonard: DNA-PAINT
• Retreat data
• New Year's party date 

December 2

• TA applicants: Jakub vs Marilica vs extend search
• PhD interviews
• Loss of EMBL credentials

November 25

• TA applicants
• ELN and Inventory Management
  • purpose of new database
  • naming storage units
    • names?
    • numbers?
    • labels from outside?
    • pictures of contents?
  • management: everyone or single person?
  • transfer to new system: timeline?
• Christmas parties floor, group

November 18

• VBC Summer school participation: https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
• Anuj Soni application
• Interview Jakub
• PhD interview week
• Teaching Mol biophysics

October 21

• Jonas traveling
• institute Christmas party (we need to organize this)
• group Christmas party date and format
• Group retreat next year
• Computer list
• Interview Tereza 
• Abbelight demo, tomorrow at 15

October 7

• institute Christmas party (we need to organize this)
• group Christmas party date and format
• Group retreat next year
• wine hike
• presentation Jonas on Thursday
• Update computer table with Macs (or did I only see wrong table?)

September 30

• ELN problems
• image analysis collaboration
• Berlin visit
• Lab lunch with Juffmann and/or Falk labs

September 23

• Lab outings
• Application Bryan Tul-ao
• Interview Yukun
• ELN problems
• Basics of SMLM, MINFLUX, literature review, etc. primers?

September 9

• Homepage edits
• Interest in/ideas for lab outings (Boating, wine hiking, etc.)
• freezer
• sample holders

September 4

• applicant Pau
• visit Kirill
• new computers. List of PCs

August 19

• Slack: Pallavi and Alejandro
• Application Masters student Pau García

August 12

• move HD to Vienna

August 5

• Todo
• organize lab cleaning day → DONE
• organize LabFolder day for standardization
• wet lab: clean up after yourself!
• export whole EMBL wiki as PDF
• lab tasks

• talk Enderlein on Friday
• Ries lab tour for Juffmann group on Monday, August 5th at 5 pm
• Juffmann lab tour for Ries group on Tuesday, August 6th at 12 pm

July 29

• lab tasks

July 22

• Jonas reports from the GRC
• investments and new PCR wish

July 11

• transfer wiki from HD
• lab tasks: create, assign, and rotate
• dark room with red lights for PaX dye sample prep
• retreat picture folder → who set it up? where is it?
• Postdoc candidates Pallavi, Ioannis
• Investment wishes
• summer holidays in calendar and in SAP

July 1

• informal visit Milad tomorrow 11
• visit (with talks) Ioannis Pitsios on Thursday morning and Pallavi Della on Friday afternoon

June 24

• ELN: have we set up any standardization as far as entries etc. go?
• SMLMS in Lisboa
• Visit Pallavi 5.7.
• The -70 °C freezers in VBC5 level 0, room 0.412, will be serviced on Thursday, the 27.6., starting 11:30.sday, the 27.6., starting 11:30. Are we affected?
• Lab Retreat receipts
• Abberior user meeting July 15-17
• tutor mol biophysics

June 17

• Retreat follow up
  • The Good; don't change
    • balance between talks and activities, as well as timing; no too much science per day
    • not too many food leftovers
  • The Bad, or change-worthy
    • activities could be more affordable, unless people agree to pay out of pocket again
    • meal plan and thus shopping list could have been planned better
      • trash bags, paper towels, soap, etc.
  • The Unclear; change or not?
    • duration of retreat (one day shorter?)
    • restaurant outing instead of another activity?
  • pictures upload → someone will set up a share solution for full quality sharing
  • expenses → Francesco taking care of it
• Pallavi postdoc candidate: 5.7. 
• Application Dalila (summer student)

June 3

• Bookings for Group Retreat
• Presentations
• "Common" things to bring for the group at the Retreat: who brings what
• What to bring
• Rendez-vous to leave for Zell am See
• Food requests/cooking volunteers
• (Vienna) Fill in business trip request
• Delivery of MINFLUX microscope: calibration samples, trainings...
• Postdoc candidate Pallavi
• Melodic Monday (Free entry today)
• Pride parade (Saturday 8 June)

May 21

• alumni management for Slack, Benchling, etc. 
• retreat fun activity needs to be booked asap 

May 6

• retreat
• visit Michaela Master
• seminar Köhler
• small stuff for Nick to bring?

April 29

• Server acces Vienna-Heidelberg: where is/will experimental data be saved in Vienna, and how can Heidelberg people access it (and viceversa)
• Master candidate: Michaela Janka
• EMBL desk space cleaning

April 22

• Affiliations on papers
• Visit Bachelor candidate Utku, Th 12:00.

April 15

• Group retreat
  • working groups: Science, Schedule, Logistics, Food, Fun
  • Prepare a presentation
  • Science/schedule: Nestor, Takahiro
  • Logistics: Francesco, Amr, Takahiro
  • Food: Maxime, Alejandro, Gabin, Soheil, Zach
  • Fun: Phylicia, Zach, Maxime, Nick
    • Hiking, rafting, swimming, canyoning 
• Vienna MINFLUX 
• Course teaching

March 11

• Bachelor student application Max Immler
• Group retreat: the poll (https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/dLAkGLje) indicates the week of the 17th of June as the best match. Francesco will check possible locations and availabilities.
• Recruitment HFSP postdoc
• FOM talks and posters

March 04

• ELN: stick with labforward, or "do it right"? (; 
  • Uni Vie offers the possibility of having an organization website, different from the wiki (https://zid.univie.ac.at/en/cms-typo3/) if it can help (FR)
• Email to Abberior with the MINFLUX questions
• Lab retreat: please sign up in the doodle poll (https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/dLAkGLje), volunteers welcome for organization (Francesco)
• Candidate Sha Hao
• Safety training in Vienna (Moodle elearning)

February 26

• Happy hour Vienna 7.3.
• Ries group retreat
• Additional investments for renovation in Vienna
• Microsoft Teams and group calendars
• Application Hao Sha

February 19

• Benchling access for former members → remove or keep?
• Slack
  • INBOX → thread OK, or better channel?
    • already gone unnoticed → Soheil's dark red beads have been shipped to Vienna → someone please ship/bring them back to Heidelberg
  • other requests/points?
• Bring Soheil's Computer back!!
  • next time someone travels from Vienna by car, or is feeling brave to do it by train → bring just the tower

February 06

• Visit Hadis Sajedi today
• FOM organization and registration
• New resources / tools in Vienna
  • Wiki
  • Fileshare
  • ELN
  • Data bases
  • Calendar
• MINFLUX review

January 29 

• Slack
  • INBOX → thread OK, or better channel?
  • other requests/points?
• Organisational:
  • new mailing list in Vienna
  • Where to move the Wiki to
  • Group calendar
• HFSP candidates
• 1:1 and nano-meetings