Each policy carries an effective date and a last-reviewed date, cites its sources, and is reviewed at least annually. Where UF, a funder, or Kenyan law already sets a rule, these policies point to it. They do not restate it and do not write a stricter laboratory-level version.
Index last reviewed: August 2026.
Policies
Collaboration and Authorship
How authorship is determined and ordered, CRediT contributor roles, prohibited practices, engagement models for external collaborators, and dispute resolution.
Responsible Use of AI
Permitted and prohibited uses of AI tools, data classification before use, disclosure requirements for manuscripts and grants, and quality control of AI-generated output.
International Research Partnership and Compliance
Kenyan access and benefit-sharing law, research and wildlife permits, digital sequence information obligations, specimen deposition, and our equitable partnership standards.
Field Safety and Travel
Pre-departure requirements, water contact and disease risk, large animal and vehicle hazards, stop-work authority, communication redundancy, and conduct in the field.
Laboratory Code of Conduct and Mentoring Compact
Expectations by role, meeting and communication norms, hours and leave, psychological safety, harassment reporting routes, and research integrity obligations.
Data and Code Management
Sponsor requirements, metadata standards by data type, deposition workflow, reproducibility practice, HiPerGator storage, retention periods, and custody at departure.
Equipment Access and Shared Resource
How internal and external users obtain instrument access, training and certification, scheduling, effort attribution, and cost responsibility.
Guidance
Reproducibility Handbook
Preparing a computational manuscript for submission: pinning package versions with renv, setting up the repository, the metadata files, depositing at Zenodo and NCBI SRA, cross-linking the DOIs, and the Data Availability Statement. Includes a public example repository.
Corrections may be submitted by anyone, including people outside the lab, by email to the PI. Substantive amendments to the Laboratory Code of Conduct are made by agreement with the laboratory rather than by unilateral revision.