Lauren Young explains how the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science has utilised sample-tracking software in order to improve productivity and organise the ICMS freezer facilities.
The Institute of Cell and Molecular Science (ICMS) at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry offers staff and students the opportunity to conduct pioneering biomedical research in a range of areas. Chris Pelling is one of four laboratory managers within the Institute who run a total laboratory space of 3500 square metres.
Originally, the ICMS had eight large research centres in various locations, which made communication and collaboration problematic.
Chris explains: “Each group that moved into this building was doing its own thing in terms of the systems they used. Primarily, one of the things that we looked at was cryogenic storage. Each centre had multiple Dewars and we wanted to get them in a vapour-phase system. More than that, we wanted to manage the system so that everybody was doing the same thing, everyone understood how the system worked and we could track the samples for people.”
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