SAFE Labs

CNIDevoLab_2025: Our team is composed by researchers with different roles and backgrounds. We expect everybody to contribute to scientific progress according to their skills; we encourage all members to supervise and mentor less experienced teammates. Depending on the length of stay with us and on the experience level, everybody is generally expected to contribute to the lab organisation and general interest activities, such as ordering and specific animal care. All team members receive regular supervision from the PIs. We encourage members to seek further training if necessary (several options are provided by CNRS, for example).

As a general guideline, postdocs are expected to be more autonomous in their research, to conduct and analyse their experimental work, and to write scientific publications.

GalupaLab_2025: The table below summarises my expectations, but they can be discussed. Importantly, a “N” does not mean that such person/role cannot take such responsibility; only that they are not expected to, but they might be welcome to if they want to – just discuss it with me. In most of such cases I added a star to “N” > “N*”.

Responsibilities	Staff Scientist	Postdoc	PhD	Undergrad	Assistant/Engineer
Supervision of other lab members	Y	Y	Y	N	N*
Having an independent project	Y	Y	Y	N	N*
Experimental work	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Analytical work	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Paper writing	Y	Y	Y	N	N*
Presentations at conferences	Y	Y	Y	N	N*
Presentations at group meetings	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Participation in group meetings, including journal clubs	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Applying to fellowships/grants	Y	Y	Y	N	N
Cleaning schedules (e.g. tissue culture room)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Placing orders	N	N	N	N	Y
Keeping the lab tidy	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y

OttLab_2025: Our team is composed by researchers with different roles: postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, undergraduate (Master or Bachelor) students and research assistants. These roles, which may correspond to different career stages and seniority, typically come with different duties, responsibilities and expectations. These will be discussed at hiring and onboarding. Typically, postdocs and graduate students are expected to independently carry out research projects ranging from experimental work to data analysis and paper writing, as well as take part at the lab’s and institute’s regular meetings (see below). Postdocs are additionally expected to assist the PI in writing grants and reviewing papers. Graduate students will receive a larger degree of training and supervision, for example, via the Humboldt Graduate School (see below). Undergraduates and research assistants are not expected to independently carry out projects and will be supervised by a graduate student or postdoc. All full-time lab members are expected in helping to maintain the lab’s infrastructure and animal colonies.

ReinhardLab_2025: Our team is composed of postdocs, PhD candidates, undergraduates and technicians. Each role comes with different responsibilities and training opportunities. These are outlined in a table accessible both in the public and internal Lab Handbook.

RossiLab_2025:Our team is composed by researchers with different roles: postdocs, PhD students, Research Assistants undergraduate students. Expectations for each role, and what they can expect from other lab members, is detailed in the table at this link. The table is meant as a guide, not a limitation: exceptions will happen (e.g. sometimes a principle project can be collaborative, rather than independent; a productive research assistant or an undergraduate may contribute to writing a paper), but this guide will be accurate in most cases: please discuss with Federico if you have any questions of concerns about it.

TreurLab_2025: Currently, the Comorbidity & Causality research group consists of 1 Associate Professor, 1 Assistant Professor, 7 PhD students, and 1 research assistant. As a baseline, we follow the job description and specific responsibilities as described in the Dutch academic job profile (‘functieprofielen’) from the ‘CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten’, which can be found here.

For Research Assistants, responsibilities generally consist of providing help with data collection, data administration, or data analysis. For specific projects, it may be required that RAs participate in conducting literature review and/or help with writing a scientific paper. Supervision will be conducted by the researcher(s) responsible for the project that the RA is assisting on.

For PhD students, responsibilities vary depending on their specific project, but at the minimum, include data analysis and interpretation and independent writing of scientific papers for their thesis. We follow the thesis requirements documented by Amsterdam UMC. Writing of major grants is not yet required, but we encourage writing of small (travel/research visit) grants. Supervision will be conducted by the primary supervisor(s).

For post-doctoral researchers and Assistant Professors, responsibilities depend on their specific project and where funding comes from. In general, we encourage increasing independence and setting up of independent research lines, particularly for Assistant Professors. We require and stimulate all post-doctoral researchers to actively seek and apply for funding opportunities. We also require and stimulate (co-)supervision of the PhD students in the group.

RadzisheuskayaLab_2025: We have a shared Outlook lab calendar that can be used for equipment booking, indicating vacations and joint events.

We have several general lab support duties distributed among all the group members. The up-to-date responsibility list can be found here: link not public. It is important that you let the responsible person know about something running low or equipment broken well in advance.

In addition, we have a weekly rota for cleaning the lab and restocking and a monthly rota for hood cleaning. These rotas are sent via Outlook Calendar.

You will be required to occasionally supervise summer or MRes students or help new lab members with their integration process. The allocation of supervision is made by volunteering or according to the most suitable project.

CoenLab_2025: Our team is composed by researchers with different roles. Expectations for each role, and what they can expect from other lab members, is detailed in the table below. Please contact Pip if you have any questions or concerns about this table. This is a guide and not a limitation. Exceptions will happen (e.g. sometimes a principle project can be collaborative, rather than independent, or an undergrad may contribute to a paper), but this guide is accurate for most cases. The corresponding table of responsibilites can be found here.

AeryJonesLab_2026:

• Project Ownership: Every PhD student and postdoc has their own project. First projects for each trainee are initially proposed by me and then designed and implemented with my input. Postdocs may propose their own first project if they choose. Second projects are then proposed by the trainee. You are the driving force behind your project, taking ownership of it and all related elements. Plan ahead and be proactive.
• Project Assistance: Technicians and undergraduate students will help with one or more ongoing projects in the lab. Technicians can expect to contribute as a co-author on at least one paper. Technicians are expected to help manage the lab as well. Undergraduate students will be considered for co-authorship if their contribution meets our guidelines discussed below.