Ideally the Seahorse XFe-96 should be coupled with a Citation 1 or 5 to enable cell counts, microscopy and to automatically pass the cell count data across to the Seahorse to normalise the data. At a cost of around $150,000 it is beyond our budget at present.
An alternative that we can explore is a BioTek Lionheart which LTU already owns and is located in the lab next to the Binger Lab where I will be working.
I have completed my ethics application and have referenced the Western Health ethics application number provided to me from WH, which covers us taking Parkinson's blood and Sheila running various cognitive tests. However Western Health have resubmitted their ethics to add my PD blood requirements, OXPHOS, Proteomic and Sheila’s cognitive tests as well as the COVID research, so that we are all on the same updated Western Health ethics application. Unfortunately the WH application may not be submitted until January or later.
I am wondering what the down side would be if we submitted our ethics application without a copy of the Western Health updated ethics approval. Ideally if we submit by Nov 29th, the committee would review it and pass back any comments and requests for further information which we could fix whilst we wait for Western Health's updated ethics approval in Jan or Feb. This could save us at least one month as it is unlikely our ethics application will be approved first time round.
Completed the LTU COVID-19 risk assessment (8th November), as part of the LIMS safety requirements for access to LIMS and the Binger laboratory.
Both the risk assessment and a request my access to LIMS from Katrina were sent off on Tuesday 9th November with initial comments from the Biochemistry Head of School being supportive. Katrina expects approval by early next week 16th-20th November.
