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Equipment Repair Shops for Biological Sciences
Repair Technicians:
Nick Yarnes
231 Sinsheimer Laboratories
Email: nyarnes@ucsc.edu
Drop-in hours: Monday-Thursday, 8:00am – 5:00pm
Sergey Doronkin
104 Biomedical Sciences
831-459-3690
Email: sdoronki@ucsc.edu
Drop-in hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm
Mission
To maintain and repair lab equipment, and to assist with other equipment issues, such as:
- equipment-related training
- instrument modifications
- instrument interfacing
- instrument design
- equipment purchases
Shop Policies
Submitting a job: Instruments should be clean and completely decontaminated before being brought to the shop.
Recharges: The cost of parts used in instrument repair will be recharged. The repair shop will cover the paperwork, but an account number and authorized signature will be needed.
Job prioritization: The following priority scheme is generally applied, with occasional exceptions:
- Emergency and safety-related work
- Scheduled preventive maintenance on common equipment
- Repair of common equipment – teaching
- Repair of common equipment – research
- Repair of lab equipment (or consultation) for PIs in the Biological Sciences (MCD, EEB, METX)
- Work for other UCSC units