LORRE Seminars Our weekly seminars will be held on Mondays 4-5pm! All LORRE graduate students are expected to attend. Our first seminar will be held on Monday September 8 in the Fu Room (POTR 234). Seminar Schedule Date Title Presenter(s) Location 8-Sep Introductions, Lab Report Ladisch, Mosier, Engelberth, Ximenes Fu Room (POTR 234) 15-Sep Lab Organization TBD 22-Sep TBD Johana Husserl Orjuela Fu Room (POTR 234) 29-Sep Fu Room (POTR 234) 6-Oct Fu Room (POTR 234) 13-Oct Fu Room (POTR 234) 20-Oct Fu Room (POTR 234) 27-Oct Fu Room (POTR 234) 3-Nov Fu Room (POTR 234) 10-Nov Fu Room (POTR 234) 17-Nov Fu Room (POTR 234) 24-Nov Fu Room (POTR 234) 1-Dec Fu Room (POTR 234) 8-Dec Fu Room (POTR 234) 15-Dec Fu Room (POTR 234) At LORRE, How Do I ...? This is a weekly series in the newsletter to help everyone access the resources they need to be successful. Each week will highlight a different "How do I" question. If you have suggestions for "How do I" questions, please send them to Nate Mosier (mosiern@purdue.edu<mailto:mosiern@purdue.edu>). At LORRE, how do I get supplies I need for my research? Each of you are working on a research project that has funding to support your efforts and the efforts of others on the project. This funding can be used (within limits) to purchase the supplies you need. How do you go about purchasing these supplies? All purchases begin with the completion of a purchase requisition form. Please ask Carla or Keven in the LORRE office for one on paper or request an electronic copy. The electronic form is an MS Excel spreadsheet that can be filled in and printed out for signatures. You will need several pieces of information: 1) Your name and contact information (phone # and email) 2) The name of the vendor 3) The account number of the project 4) An itemized list of the supplies you wish to purchase with estimated prices 5) Your signature! 6) The signature of your advisor! No purchases can be made without your signature and the approval (signature) of your advisor. Once you have the form completed, please give it to Carla in the LORRE office. She will enter the information into the Purdue purchasing system. After your items arrive by mail, she will let you know that you can pick them up from the main office. It is important that you give Carla the packing slip from the package! This is the proof of receipt by Purdue to allow the bill to be paid. Many common research supplies (pipette tips, centrifuge tubes, sample bottles and bags, etc.) are already in the lab. Please ask Linda before ordering these items. We try to keep these in stock to prevent the work from being slowed by waiting for supplies to arrive. However, these supplies are not free! Each project should purchase these common stock items as they are being used. Please discuss how much of these supplies, as well as specialty items, you will be needing with your advisor so these purchases can be made in a timely manner.