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OnboardingUndergrads
Kravitz Lab edited this page Jan 7, 2026
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To bring a Wash U undergrad into the lab they must satisfy 3 things:
- Bio200/500 requirements
- Visitingscholars requirements
- Department of Psychiatry requirements
This guide will talk through each step. Plan to start these at least 1 month ahead of their start date.
🧠 Home
- Onboarding Guide
- Lab Manual
- NRB Printer setup
- Travel Guidelines
- Software Setup
- Poster Printing
- Poster Templates/examples
- Reviewing Papers
- Making Figures
- Transnetyx info
- Onboarding WashU Undergraduates
- Cage cards
- Red Hazard cards
- Surgery cards
- Mouse Transfer Procedure
- Cage Check
- IACUC Protocols
- Mouse Genotyping
- Autoclave
- Diet nutritional information
-- Chow diet
-- FED3 grain pellets (Bioserv)
-- FED3 chocolate crispies (ViaCheff)
-- High fat diet
- RNA extraction (Trizol)
- cDNA synthesis with Biorad reagent
- Designing primers
- Setting up the qPCR and analysis
- Localizing injections with DiI
- GCaMP8
- ChR2 (H134R)
- GrabDA
- dLight
- Caspase
- mCherry / YFP Controls
- retroCre
Acquisition
Analysis
- Electrode array construction
- Attaching fibers to Inn NeuroPhys arrays
- NanoZ Impedance Testing
- NanoZ Gold Plating
- Recording Setup
- Data Analysis
- Electrode lesions for histology
- Antibody stocks
- Cryostat
- Freezing microtome
- SST & PV immunostaining
- GFP immunostraining
- IHF troubleshooting
- FED3 Troubleshooting
- FED3 Human Bandit Code
- Synchronizing FED3 with recordings
- FED3 Bandit Code for recordings
- FED3 Artwork
Ex Vivo
- Overview
- Current Clamp
- Voltage Clamp
- Clampex Protocols
- Solutions & Recipes
- Troubleshooting
- Post-patching IHC
- PPR with ClampFit
In Vivo