WG 14 – Room Environment

Preliminary Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Working on our Protocol Draft
3. Next steps

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Working on our Protocol Draft
3. Next steps

Summary:

The Working Group 14 meeting focused on progress updates for their room temperature measurement protocol draft, with new member Jakub joining as validation lead. The group discussed challenges with Aim 3 of the protocol, which involves analysing temperature gradients over time periods of 1 hour, 12 hours, and 24 hours using multiple sensors per room. They agreed that two sensors would be sufficient for Aim 2 (equipment requirement check) and at least three sensors would be required for Aim 3 (room behaviour determination). The team assigned homework tasks including data analysis using the formulas from the protocol draft, purchasing metrology sensors from ELV for measurements, and contacting equipment vendors to gather updated room temperature requirement specifications. They also planned to add a new appendix discussing how room temperature fluctuations affect incubation systems and their stability.

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Working on our Protocol Draft
3. Next steps

Summary:

After discussing organisational matters, we have been working on our protocol draft. We agreed that to have more reliable numbers published within step 4 ff, we need to measure several rooms in different institutes. Our aim would be to measure in several institutes together 6-10 rooms. We discussed the analysis part for aim 3 and came to the conclusion that for developing a clear idea what could be needed for a more detailed room temperature description (aim 3) we should collect scenarios, setups, and maybe even first measurements which could showcase the need for aim 3 measurements and thereby suggest a particular analysis workflow.

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Discuss meaning of given temparature variations for light microscopy
3. Working on our Protocol Draft
4. Next steps

Summary:

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Discuss meaning of given temparature variations for light microscopy
3. Working on our Protocol Draft
4. Next steps

  Meeting Summary: After organizational matters and a report from the SC meeting (Quarep will have a community room at ELMI2026 in Coimbra, but it will be too early to give a WG14 workshop in there), a quick update on the dexel-pixel definitions as well as the LiMi-model was given. We discussed the meaning of “mean room temperature” and the +/- values. We should include examples in the protocol. We have been working on our protocol draft step 4 and ff. We are still not sure about temperature gradients between multiple sensors in the room and how big gradients can be accepted: Maybe a mean delta T of 1.5°C +/-SD? We should measure it and determine this in about 6 to 10 rooms to have a more reliable value. Next, we want to prepare text suggestion for step 4 aim 3. We need to discuss and start to measurements with 3 sensors in a room according to protocol aim 2. We will enquire about whether we can buy 1-2 sets of 3 sensors for QUAREP to send around.

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Working on our Protocol Draft
3. Next steps

Summary:

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Working on our Protocol Draft
3. Next steps

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. New name for NBO-Q model
3. Working on our Protocol Draft
4. Next steps

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Working on our Protocol Draft
3. Next steps

 

Agenda:

1. Organisational matters and News
2. Report from ELMI 2025
3. Working on our Protocol Draft
4. Next steps