Because it can take a lot of time and be a real headache if you haven’t done it before, I’ve put together a few useful templates for you.

Of course, everyone has different needs and preferences, which is why I’ve kept them as Excel spreadsheets so you can download and customize them to your liking.

Here they are:

• Freezer Organization Template – Keeping Your Freezer Organized

Keeping your freezer organized will help ensure you don’t lose samples and will reduce door opening times - protecting both your samples and your freezer’s health by avoiding compressor overload.

Then, I put together a basic template to help you track how much energy your equipment uses:

• Calculation Template – Assessing Energy Consumption & Savings

If you’d like to conduct an energy assessment, I’ve written an overview for you here.

To help you benefit from that expertise, here’s a template that can help you organize and quantify your savings.

• Sheet Template – Tracing Savings In Experiments

As you may know, I might be the only consultant worldwide specializing in optimizing experimental strategies. Therefore, here is a little piece I have written on the topic. I hope it can inspire you.

• Moreover, you’d be surprised how much money (sometimes millions) companies invest in developing software and tools that they openly share but rarely promote. I have compiled those I know below.

After hearing from a scientist who almost gave up before finding others to join her (just by sending a single email to her institute’s mailing list), I wrote a short template for you too.

• Email Template – Outreach To Find Your Dream Team Beyond Your Lab