Given our limited space in storing tissue culture reagents on the second floor, we now have a centralized inventory of shared materials shown in the Google sheet below:
1. Keep the listed reagents at their defined locations as indicated on the sheet. If you have some personal stock of the same item that you would like to share with the group, you can place them there.
2. If you ever see anything is running low, write your name and date under the "Running low?" column. This will notify Tim (Ting Xi) Guo to order more.
3. The goal is have better spatial and fiscal management, so please try to stick to these reagents over something similar due to personal preference. This avoids having duplicates.
4. If you absolutely need to use a culture vessel or any bulky plasticware that is not on this list, then order the smallest possible unit. In which case you will need to find storage space at your own bench, similar to the previous system. 
5. To save fridge/freezer space in TC room, it would help if we can share things like pen/strep and FBS. There are 5 ml aliquots of 100x pen/strep in the freezer for everyone to use. In the future, last person to finish the aliquots can make more. Also, we should all use one bottle of thawed FBS at 4C, instead of having multiple bottles. 
Do not hesitate to email Tim G (tingxi@mit.edu) with any questions/comments.
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