To All: A few lab announcements concerning the next few days. First, the autoclave will be out of service tomorrow, 2/4/2016. A new boiler is being installed, and this process will take all day. Please be sure that your use of the autoclave is done by the end of the day today (2/3/2016) so that it can cool down overnight. Second, please be sure to close the -70^0 C refrigerator in room 237 completely. Last Friday (1/29/2016) the door was not completely closed, which eventually set off the temperature alarm. A loss of environment inside the refrigerator could lead to the samples inside going bad, or it could ruin the refrigerant compressor inside the machine. Please be sure that it is completely closed and latched in the future. Finally, on Friday we will begin calibrating all of the pipettes in the lab. Those on the 3^rd floor, please bring your pipettes to room 333 beginning at 1:30pm and they will be tested for accuracy. Those on the second floor, please bring your pipettes by room 333 on Monday, beginning at 1:30pm. Paul Thieme will take care of the calibration. Please be sure the pipettes you bring are sorted by which room they came from. An email will be sent when each group's pipettes are ready for pickup. Thanks, LORRE Safety Community