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Pick your category, then read down the list in order.

Postdoc / Staff

1. Joining the Lab — confirm you meet the requirements
2. Penn Onboarding
3. Lab Onboarding
4. Key Contacts — bookmark this one
5. Then: Wet Lab or Dry Lab, depending on your focus
6. Lab Management — how orders, PTO, deadlines work here

Graduate Student / Undergraduate Student / Exchange Scholar

Same as above — the onboarding and track pages don’t differ by category once you’re past Joining the Lab.

Wet Lab Track

1. Wet Lab Training — required safety/animal modules
2. Record Keeping — LabArchives + Box
3. Wet Lab Tutorials — FACS, Microscopy, Animal Facility, Colony Management, Chromium 3’, Xenium

Dry Lab Track

1. Server Access — PMACS/PARCC accounts, VPN
2. Computing Basics — IDE, command line, Python/R
3. Project Setup — project ID → folder structure → GitHub
4. Dry Lab Tutorials — PARCC, PMACS, GitHub, coding agents, pipelines, figure standards