Facility Access

Users who wish to utilize NISB instruments, request for trainings or other related matters, please contact the various platform managers.

Only NTU staff with a NTU Staff card, students and exchange students with a NTU matriculation card can be trained and operate NISB equipment independently.

For more information on available equipment, click here.
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In order to use NISB equipment, users must first read & abide by the policies for the various platforms. Penalties apply for non-compliance.

NISB Core Facilities include the Biophysics and Biochemistry Platform and X-ray Crystallography Platform. For access to the NMR platform, click here.

All users must meet the requirements shown below to access the facilities and begin working on experiments within NISB:
A. Safety Training
B. Safety Induction
C. Administrative Requirements

Facility access and equipment booking rights will only be given once the user has been determined to be able to operate equipment independently.

No experiments / work may be conducted within NISB facilities until safety courses have been completed

All users (working within laboratories and workplace in NISB) have to complete online safety training to ensure that they are equipped with the necessary knowledge and competency to handle workplace hazards in a safe manner.

How to complete safety courses

  • Users with "STAFF" account domain shall access the online training through Workday Learning.
  • Users with "STUDENT" account domain shall access the online training through NTULearn.
  • Users external to NTU should contact your group safety representative or NISB staff to register an account on NTULearn.

What courses are required?

All laboratory users have to complete mandatory safety courses, with additional courses based on their roles and experimental needs.

Click here to view the full NISB Safety Training Matrix for more information.

After completing safety courses

Transcript of completed safety courses should be submitted to NISB safety officer (or group safety representative if Principal Investigator is a NISB tenant). Click here to see how to generate transcript.

All users must undergo safety induction by either their group safety representatives or NISB safety officers (if external users). Please contact the relevant parties for safety induction.

1. Submission of Risk Assessment(s)

  • Before conducting any work in NISB facilities, all users must complete their risk assessments. Risk assessments should scope in all activities that are to be carried out in NISB facilities.
  • Users external to NISB must submit their risk assessments to NISB before being allowed to perform work in NISB.

2. Submission of Safety Course Transcript

  • Transcript of completed safety courses should be submitted to NISB safety officer (or group safety representative if Principal Investigator is a NISB tenant). Click here to see how to generate transcript. 
    For more information on safety courses, refer to section A.

3. Completing Online Safety Induction

  • Completion of the online safety induction will allow verification of submitted documents and card access to NISB facilities (if applicable).
  • Due to security reasons, card access to NISB main laboratory will only be given to users whose Principal Investigators are tenants at NISB. Users external to NISB should request their collaborators or NISB staff to let them in to access the facilities. 
  • Users external to NISB must be accompanied at all times and must not work outside of office hours.

Users who wish to use the NISB Cryo-Electron Microscopy Platform should contact Dr. Liew Chong Wai ([email protected]).

All users must meet the requirements shown below to begin equipment training:

A. Safety Training
B. Administrative Requirements
C. Equipment Training and Competency Checks

Facility access and equipment booking rights will only be given once the user has been determined to be able to operate equipment independently.

No experiments / work may be conducted within NISB facilities until safety courses have been completed

All users (working within laboratories and workplace in NISB) have to complete online safety training to ensure that they are equipped with the necessary knowledge and competency to handle workplace hazards in a safe manner.

How to complete safety courses

  • Users with "STAFF" account domain shall access the online training through Workday Learning.
  • Users with "STUDENT" account domain shall access the online training through NTULearn.
  • Users external to NTU should contact your group safety representative or NISB staff to register an account on NTULearn.

What courses are required?

All laboratory users have to complete mandatory safety courses, with additional courses based on their roles and experimental needs.

Click here to view the full NISB Safety Training Matrix for more information.

After completing safety courses

Transcript of completed safety courses should be submitted to NISB safety officer (or group safety representative if Principal Investigator is a NISB tenant). Click here to see how to generate transcript.

1. Completing Online Platform Application Form

  • The online platform application form will allow verification of submitted documents and enter your project into our system (Application form will only be given after communications with facility staff).
  • Once verified, a project ID number will be given to the user for the booking of equipment.

2. Submission of Brief Project Write-up

3. Submission of Risk Assessment(s)

  • Before conducting any work in NISB facilities, all users must complete their risk assessments. Risk assessments should scope in all activities that are to be carried out in NISB facilities.
  • Completed risk assessments should be submitted to NISB.

4. Submission of Safety Course Transcript

  • Transcripts of completed safety courses should be submitted to NISB. Click here to see how to generate a transcript. 
    For more information on safety courses, refer to Section A.

5. Other Documents

  • If users wish to perform experiments with Uranyl Acetate (UA), a valid R1 license must be submitted to NISB.
  • If users wish to work on BSL2 samples, a valid and approved Biological Project Number (BPN) must be submitted to NISB.
  • Equipment training will be done in a progressive manner, from operating the T12 for room temperature TEM to operating the Arctica and Krios for cryo-TEM.
  • At each step, equipment operation competency must be established before progressing.
  • Training sessions require an actual sample to be ready. Training will not be conducted without samples present.
  • For card access to NISB Cryo-Electron Microscopy Platform located at FACTS, please apply through FACTS via this LINK.