Safety chef: Help with laboratory inspections, routine monitoring of compliance, group job assignments, draft SOPS, and overall lab cleanliness. Run the place like a kitchen that has to anticipate spot inspections by the county health inspector. (Gabe, Seth (sous-chef))
Chemical waste proctor: Monitors waste, documentation, and submission. (John, Anastasia)
Hot plates / vacuum pumps / ovens / rotary evaporators / balances / syringe pump: Monitor maintenance schedules; watch for equipment abuse. Calibrate balances and ensure their cleanliness. (Seth, Mike)
Surface laboratory: Care, feeding, and user training on LB trough, microscopes, and chip cutters. (John, Phillip, Seth)
Freezers and refrigerators: Tidiness, care, and organization. (Ben B., Anastasia)
Glove box: Care, feeding, and user training (Seth, Efeanyi)
Solvents: Maintain stills and solvent purification system. Maintain a supply of active 3 A molecular sieves. (Gabe, Mike, Anastasia (training))
Windows computers: Install software, maintain licenses, monitor appropriate usage. Make sure things work. Maintain printing supplies: paper, toner, etc. (Philip, Efeanyi)
Hydrogenation: Maintain the various hydrogenation apparatus (pressure recording, plumbing bits, safety, o-rings, leak whack-a-mole, safety (fire! Pd catalysts! H2! pressure!) (Gabe, Joel)
HPLC: maintain and repair the HPLC (Ben K., Gabe, Tolani)
Web page: content, backups, etc. (Ben K.)
Group data: maintain group file server and backups (Ben K.)