Hello again,
Thanks for participating in the cleanup! Maybe not so much to clean this year but a few points to note still:
1. As it was completely full, we emptied the sterilization oven in solvent labs to the table (picture). If you have something in your current work that needs to be sterile you can lift it back inside the oven. 2. We will sort the deep freezers once we get the new one. I will let you know the date for that later on. 3. The IT trash will be taken away on Friday either 9-10AM or 12+. If there are big stashes of old office leftovers nearby to your place, please let me know and we can throw those away at the same time.
Thanks, Petri Sundqvist ________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2025 1:16 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: Autumn 2025 office + lab cleanup
Hello Everyone,
Just a reminder that tomorrow 9:00 in the morning we will meet at molecular labs to start the cleanup! I will take the IT thrash trolley upstairs today
Thanks, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2025 11:39 AM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: Autumn 2025 office + lab cleanup
Hello Everyone,
Looks like Wednesday 15th of October at 9:00AM got 11 votes, so we will meet at the entrance of molecular lab as usual. I think it will take us 2 hours at most!
Thanks, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 12:52 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: Autumn 2025 office + lab cleanup
Hello everyone,
Reminder to vote for cleanup below if you havent already. Currently Wednesday 15th of October at 9:00AM leads with 7 votes
BR, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 9:55 AM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Autumn 2025 office + lab cleanup
Hello everyone,
It's again Autumn and time to come together for laboratory cleanup! On top of maintaining the overall cleanliness of the working spaces and freezers, we should give special attention to:
1. Office spaces - Is there old mice, keyboard, monitors, chairs etc hanging around in your way? We could collect in the 2nd floor lobby above the middle staircase where infoTV is. I could bring a container for it and have it there for the whole week of the cleanup. Let me know if you need help with carrying the stuff! 2. Deep freezers - We will go through the deepfreezer that does not have the racks (closest to the door). I hope everyone who has samples in that freezer or would like to use that freezer in the future would be present at the cleanup. 3. Teaching laboratories and the teaching equipment storage
We also encourage everybody to go through the Cardboard Box Storage and renew the names and dates on the boxes. The best way is to mark it with SURNAME/MONTH/YEAR for example (SUNDQVIST 10/2025). If the date is older than 3 years, the boxes can be evaluated by our lab people, taken to common use (which might mean keeping them in storage for future) or discarded if there is nothing valuable there or we don't know the owner. Especially in the deep freezer there are still unmarked boxes from the year 2002 and we don't know who owns them and why they are even there in the first place.
Here is the possibility to vote the date for cleanup in first whole weeks of October. I will close the voting Wednesday a week from now.
https://webapp.oulu.fi/framadate/studs.php?poll=4Y3Ay6FoVJKlciwU
BR, Petri Sundqvist ________________________________ From: biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi on behalf of Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Monday, October 21, 2024 1:09 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: [Biolaitos] Autumn 2024 lab cleanup
Hello again everyone,
I'll start by thanking everyone for participating in the laboratory cleanup last Friday, the attendance was impressive and we got a lot of cleaning done. There are still some places that we missed so here is a list of things that people working on those premises could tidy up.
Lab spaces still needing some cleaning up to do before the 360 figures can be taken:
B167a: The farthest working tables in the molecular lab: Tables are still quite full of extra clutter and not very presentative for the 360 figures. People working in the space could try to think what is actually needed on the table and what could be placed on the cupboards.
B159, tables around the KingFisher DNA-extraction machine: People using this space, please clean the tables from extra plates and unmarked samples. Kits could be placed in the cabinets(?)
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B151 (freezer room) and B168 (cold room for liquid nitrogen) needs some cleaning.
B104: There is still quite a lot stuff on the tables. Please clean all the things that are not currently used away from the tables (or floors). Those things that are needed in the current ongoing work can stay of course, but the space is not meant as a storage room.
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B160a and other spaces with draining boards still full of stuff: Please clean all the sink areas/draining boards from extra clutter.
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The 360 pictures from In vitro spaces and teaching lab B137 will be taken after the courses this fall have ended.
Important message from the laboratory technicians:
MARK YOUR WASTE PROPERLY !!! (See the bad examples on the following picture) Fume hoods are not meant for storing waste!
Unknown waste is the most expensive waste type to be disposed. Even if it would be just water or ethanol, but the waste container has not been marked properly, the waste will be disposed as unknown waste. This is an important thing to remember, as we all know, our budget is quite tight (and I don't think anyone wants to lose any more of our lab spaces). Also it is not very nice for the laboratory technicians to try to figure out what is in the badly marked containers (e.g., possibly smelling toxic chemicals).
More information how to properly mark or dispose your waste can be found from the Ecology and Genetics Laboratory Guide (found from coffee room, S-drive->Biologia->Yhteiset, or molecular lab table B167a) or you can ask help from our laboratory technicians.
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We also want to remind that the Ecology and Genetics Laboratory Guide states that Do not eat (chewing gum counts), drink, or bring/store any food/drinks in the laboratories. Food and drink consumption increases the risk of exposure to chemicals. This is most importantly for your personal safety!
Thanks again for the participation and hopefully we get good pictures of the laboratories for the 360. We will let you know when the actual date and time when the pictures will be taken in later email, but hopefully within a week or two.
BR, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi on behalf of Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2024 1:46 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: [Biolaitos] Autumn 2024 lab cleanup
Hello again everybody,
Just a reminder that tomorrow we will have the laboratory cleanup starting at 9:00, and we will meet at the entrance of molecular lab as usual. We hope to have ALL the laboratories tidy so we can take pictures for the virtual laboratory tour.
Thanks, Petri Sundqvist ________________________________ From: biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi on behalf of Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Monday, October 14, 2024 12:17 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: [Biolaitos] Autumn 2024 lab cleanup
Hello everybody,
I will close the voting now, and it looks like Friday 18th at 9:00 is the winning time with 7 votes. We could meet again in front of molecular laboratory at 9:00 this Friday and see which places could be worked on.
Thanks again, Petri Sundqvist ________________________________ From: biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi on behalf of Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Monday, October 7, 2024 3:06 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: [Biolaitos] Autumn 2024 lab cleanup
Hello everyone,
OK now the voting has 3 winning votes so lets continue the vote until end of this week. Looks like Thursday 17th or Friday 18th might be the likely dates.
Thanks, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2024 1:47 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Autumn 2024 lab cleanup
Hello everyone,
Its time for autumn lab cleanup! We are hoping that we could clean every lab to such condition, that we could take 360° pictures of the labs so all tabletops should be clean. We of course encourage to also go through your vboxes and freezers, but main focus is for the lab to look good in pictures.
Below is the link to vote, I will check the votes on monday and if there is enough (more than 5 winning votes), I will close the vote. https://webapp.oulu.fi/framadate/studs.php?poll=SKnZZQ2BfSvbbmZv
Thanks, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Friday, April 5, 2024 1:27 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: Pre-treatment lab / climate room cleanup
Hello once more,
I will close the voting now, Thursday, April 18th at 9:00 has the most votes. We could meet at the climate rooms at that date and time. I would guess 1-2 hours should suffice!
BR, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi on behalf of Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 1:02 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: [Biolaitos] Pre-treatment lab / climate room cleanup
Just a reminder to vote on the cleaning day, I will close the voting this Friday. Currently it looks like Thursday 18th of April at 9:00 is leading.
BR, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 1:10 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: Pre-treatment lab / climate room cleanup
Hello everybody,
Last lab cleanup for this semester would be the pre-treatment and climate rooms during some day in the last two whole weeks of April. Here is the voting link:
https://webapp.oulu.fi/framadate/studs.php?poll=BOcGoLjCPwPMvHeB Poll - Cleanup date for pre-treatment and climate rooms - Framadatehttps://webapp.oulu.fi/framadate/studs.php?poll=BOcGoLjCPwPMvHeB Framadate is an online service for planning an appointment or make a decision quickly and easily. webapp.oulu.fi
This doesnt cleanup affect as many people, but I would like to ask the people who have worked in these premises to vote and participate. I am hoping we can tidy up the rooms and clean some of the cabins. I noticed that the freezers in these rooms were already marked in the freezer cleanup which is nice. I will close this voting around 5th of April which is Friday next week. We could then meet in the pre-treatment lab at the time and date chosen by vote.
BR, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: bioposti-bounces@lists.oulu.fi bioposti-bounces@lists.oulu.fi on behalf of Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Friday, February 2, 2024 11:34 AM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: [Bioposti] Freezer cleanup date
Hello,
I will close this voting now, it looks like Monday, 12th of February at 9:00 might be a good time to have the cleanup. This way we can hopefully have them melt during the working day, and we can put them back on afternoon. We could meet in front of the molecular laboratories with those who would like to participate.
BR, Petri Sundqvist ________________________________ From: biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi on behalf of Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 12:17 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Re: [Biolaitos] Freezer cleanup date
Hello everybody,
Just a reminder to vote for the freezer cleanup date in the link below if you are interested. We will urge to go through the freezers and if it has picked up a lot of ice inside (and depending on the weather forecast) we can take the samples outside or try to fit into other freezers while the permafrost melts. We have noticed some freezers have so much ice that the boxes dont open, so I think these could be dealt easily this way.
I will also try to arrange a lab cleanup for the pre-treament and climate rooms later during the spring, hopefully before the summer season.
BR, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 1:10 PM To: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: Freezer cleanup date
Hello everybody,
As we have now welcomed the year 2024 with some crispy weather, I would like to propose we could do the freezer/fridge cleanup in our unit during February which was discussed in our lab cleanup in September. I think we could again vote with Framadate and I will choose January 31st the date with most votes.
Here is the link to vote on the date: https://webapp.oulu.fi/framadate/studs.php?poll=sPRyb8agJpI7hbVt
The idea is to encourage everybody to go through their own freezers/fridges and renew the names and dates on the doors/lids. Remember to mark the doors/lids with SURNAME/MONTH/NAME for example (SUNDQVIST 1/2024). If the date is older than 2 years, the freezers/fridges will be evaluated by our lab people, taken to common use (which might mean keeping them in storage for future) or discarded if there is nothing valuable inside. We already had a bit of suffling and stuffing after the 2023 field season to fit all the material in the freezers, so if all goes to plan we might be able to free some more room for the next season!
Hopefully you are having a nice start for the year, Petri Sundqvist
________________________________ From: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 3:37 PM To: Petri Sundqvist Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi; Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Subject: VS: Yearly lab cleanup date
Hello everybody,
Thank you for the good attendance for the laboratory cleanup event yesterday. Looks like we got most of the molecular labs and multipurpose lab clean. There are still three things I’d like to address:
1. The fumehoods are still stuffed with waste and other stuff that should be cleaned right after the work is finished (picture attached). If you know these belong to your group, please take action and ask for help if needed in disposal. 2. We had limited time to go through the freezers and fridges, so we will likely arrange “Christmas/NewYear cleanup” that could focus on freezers + the growrooms + pre-treatment lab/esikäsittelylabra which were not included today, but I will arrange a vote about it later on. 3. Regarding the reservation of spaces, we were able to free two spots which will be reservable from the laboratory blueprint. This is still a bit work in progress, but there will be instructions on the work spot once we can finalize them. Remember to clean after yourself when you finish the work, so next one can start right away.
Thank you again for the good spirit in the cleanup!
BR,
Petri Sundqvist
Lähettäjä: bioposti-bounces@lists.oulu.fi bioposti-bounces@lists.oulu.fi Puolesta Petri Sundqvist Lähetetty: Monday, 25 September 2023 10.15 Vastaanottaja: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Aihe: Re: [Bioposti] Yearly lab cleanup date
Hello again,
Just a reminder, that we will arrange the lab cleanup tomorrow starting at 9:00. We can meet at the entrance to molecular labs!
BR,
Petri Sundqvist
Lähettäjä: Petri Sundqvist Lähetetty: Thursday, 14 September 2023 8.36 Vastaanottaja: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fimailto:Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fimailto:bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Aihe: VS: Yearly lab cleanup date
Hello Everybody,
I will close the voting for the cleanup, and we will arrange it on the Tuesday 26th at 9:00 with 15 votes. I think the event will only need around 2 hours. We can again meet at the entrance/post table of molecular labs.
I will also clarify that in the original email I stated: “...because we have to clear the cabins and shelves of long term storage items (in molecular labs) and move those to the cardboard box storage” by which we do not mean clean all the cabins of all the stuff. We encourage to clean the long term storage items to cardboard box storage, and hopefully with this move we can clean enough items to have the lowest shelves of every desk empty. This would allow us to use the reservation system more conveniently, as in:
1. You make a reservation on the map that will be at the entrance to molelabs 2. Collect the items that are not yet in the lab from the cardboard box storage 3. Bring them to the lowest shelf for the duration of the reservation 4. After you no longer need the space, empty the lowest shelf to make room for the next user
BR,
Petri Sundqvist
Lähettäjä: Petri Sundqvist <Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fimailto:Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi> Lähetetty: Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14.14 Vastaanottaja: Petri Sundqvist <Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fimailto:Petri.Sundqvist@oulu.fi>; Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fimailto:Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fimailto:bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Aihe: VS: Yearly lab cleanup date
Hello Everybody,
Just a quick reminder to vote on the link below for the cleanup date of the laboratories, currently there is a draw between Tuesday 19th at 9:00 and Tuesday 26th at 9:00. In this case I will pick the earlier date, but let’s see until tomorrow if the situation changes!
BR,
Petri Sundqvist
Lähettäjä: biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fimailto:biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi <biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fimailto:biolaitos-bounces@lists.oulu.fi> Puolesta Petri Sundqvist Lähetetty: Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13.06 Vastaanottaja: Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fimailto:Biolaitos@lists.oulu.fi; bioposti@lists.oulu.fimailto:bioposti@lists.oulu.fi Aihe: [Biolaitos] Yearly lab cleanup date
Hello Everybody,
Here is the long promised calendar voting link for the yearly lab cleanup, which will be arranged on the last two weeks of September:
https://webapp.oulu.fi/framadate/studs.php?poll=dzJVegtsQJ23KIzT
I will close this vote in 7 days on 13th of September, which is next weeks Wednesday.
This year we will focus on Molecular Labs, Cardboard Box Storage (which is the second floor storage near microbe laboratory) and Multipurpose laboratory (where I sit nowadays).
We will be printing a blueprint of the molecular labs where every user can reserve the table space of molecular lab corridors/slots for your group a few weeks at a time. This way we can maximize the use of table space which has been running low. We are also asking for every group who works in the molecular labs to join the cleanup day, because we have to clear the cabins and shelves of long term storage items and move those to the cardboard box storage, or the more often used things to the storage next to deep freezer room. We are also hoping to transfer all the empty pipette tip boxes to cardboard box storage, since they need to be refilled in order to be valuable in the laboratory.
We also encourage everybody to go through the Cardboard Box Storage and renew the names and dates on the boxes. If the date is older than 2 years, the boxes will be evaluated by our lab people, taken to common use (which might mean keeping them in storage for future) or discarded if there is nothing valuable there. Currently there are quite many boxes labelled to year 2021 so after the turn of year 2024 they will be evaluated.
We will also be cleaning the Multipurpose laboratory. We will be placing all the unmarked stuff that is stored here also in cardboard boxes and transfer them into the cardboard box storage. The boxes will be labelled Multipurpose Lab and the labels will not be renewed in the coming years, so if you have a feeling your stuff is here, please join the laboratory cleaning day.
BR,
Petri Sundqvist
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