Above Background

For people whose work rises above the noise

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There’s no shortage of policy on shared resource laboratory work. Yet SRL scientists keep running into the same problems the guidelines were meant to fix. How you handle authorship when you’ve designed the high-dimensional panel, planned the experiment, and analysed the data. How you recover a line item when finance moves your budget. The ACS Technician Commitment Taskforce collects those answers here. Senior SRL people talking like they actually talk.

We’re calling the series Above Background. Each issue, one taskforce member sits down virtually with a senior SRL leader and asks three questions about one specific problem. New issues drop irregularly. If you’ve got a question you want us to put to the next issue, send it through.

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Issue 01 – Authorship vs Acknowledgement in Core Facilities: Navigating the Grey Zone

• Featured expert: Kylie Price, CTO & Hugh Green Fellow, Hugh Green Technology Centre, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, NZ
  Hosted by: Lucie Leveque-El Mouttie, Senior Flow Cytometry Scientist, TRI Flow Cytometry Core Facility, Brisbane