Section: Live by example and stay focused
	1. Re: The case of Immunologist Anna Mondino, at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy. 
    2. Background/Context: 
- Lab shutdown: March 1, 2020
- First virtual "virtual lab" meeting on March 13, 2020 to  review data, and plan for the experiment's completion
- Tools used: WhatsApp for group chat

Section: Keep distance, but keep socializing
	1. Re: Jennifer Nemhauser is a developmental and synthetic biologist whose lab at the University of Washington in Seattle studies signalling pathways in plants
    2. Background/Context: 
- On March 1, 2020, the University encouraged the lab leaders to encourage the member to work from home.
- Tools used: 
	- Google Group: For email exchanges for resource sharing. 
    - Google Sheet: For organizing tasks (list) and prioritizing them, and keeping track with emergency supply orders 
    - DropBox and Google Drive: To figure out data to share, analyze, and back-up.
    - Zoom: For "journal club" to discuss paper for a shared sense of interests and support psychological wellbeing.  
    
 Section: Stay ahead of the curve
	1. Re: Rafael Carazo Salas, Head of a lab at the University of Bristol, UK, for stem-cell differentiation.
	2. Background/Context: 
- On March 12, 2020
- Google Sheet: Sign-in sheet to plan and organize shared lab schedule for the members social distancing.
- Skype: For one-on-one weekly sessions with each lab member.
- Zoom: Weekly lab meetings.
- Slack: It was already in use, but the use has increased ("around the clock") to connect with each other.  
- Trello or TeamGantt: Planned to be used for project-planning soon to for more strategic resource/task allocations and be clear with expected dates and milestones. 

Section: Collect loads of data
	1. Re: Ru Gunawardane directs the Stem Cells and Gene Editing group at the Allen Institute for Cell Science in Seattle, Washington.
	2. Background/Context: 
- Lab shutdown: March 6, 2020
- Gathered as much data as they could gather so that it can be analyzed remotely. 
- Slack: To add action items for the group for a shared sense of goal and productivity. 
- Slack & Zoom: To train junior members how to analyze the genetic data.  Colleagues teach others how to use new software for the analyses, and brainstorm how to cross-train each other.  
- Excel Spreadsheet: As a genetic database and plot charts
- Evernote & Confluence: For Gunawardane's personal institutional goals and milestone tracking. 

Section: See the glass as half full
1. Re: Federica Di Nicolantonio studies the epigenetics of colorectal cancer and mesothelioma at the University of Turin, Italy.
2. Background/Context: 
- WebEx: Described as his "best friend. 
- The importance of taking extra time to communicate and share information to ensure the members' wellbeing. 



The article summary: General accounts of the tools they are using to run their research groups remotely during since COVID-19

Author: Kendall Powell
Published: March 26, 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00935-3

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Nature (Kendall Powell, March 26, 2020) reports on how research groups adapted to running their labs remotely during the early COVID-19 lockdowns, describing the collaboration and communication tools scientists adopted to keep multidisciplinary projects moving from home.

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