Training sign-off before booking
Core staff grant access per apparatus after a researcher is trained, with an optional expiry. Untrained users cannot book it.
Behavior cores
Scheduling for behavior cores
Book testing rooms and apparatus, schedule multi-day protocols in one step, and export recharge data for every lab that uses your core.
Who it is for
Rodent behavior and behavioral phenotyping cores
Many behavioral testing cores still book rooms on a shared calendar, take requests by email, and collect usage on paper logs before building a monthly charge spreadsheet. ConductLaboratory puts the calendar, the training sign-off, the usage record, and the charge file in one place, for self-service sessions and staff-assisted testing.
What you can book
Rooms, apparatus, and workstations
Add any resource your core shares. These are common examples.
Testing rooms
With their fixed apparatus and tracking computer
Morris water maze
Acquisition days, then a probe trial
Fear conditioning chambers
Training and test days in sequence
Operant chambers
Daily sessions, often for weeks
Open field arenas
Short sessions, cleaned between animals
Elevated plus maze
Single sessions in a quiet room
Rotarod
Training and test days
Acoustic startle and PPI
Chamber time per cohort
Video tracking workstations
Analysis time after testing
How it fits behavior work
Built for multi-day protocols
Multi-day protocols in one booking
Repeat every day, every weekday, or every week. The series is booked only if every session is open, and any conflict names the day to move.
Protocol numbers
Require an animal protocol number, such as an IACUC number, on bookings for chosen apparatus. It appears on the booking and in the charge export.
Minimum notice
Set how far ahead each resource must be booked, such as 24 hours, or a week to allow animal transfer and acclimation.
Cleaning and maintenance blocks
Block apparatus for deep cleaning, repairs, or calibration so nobody books over it.
Check-in on any device
Researchers check in and out from a phone or the room computer, which replaces the paper log.
Internal and external rates
Bill each person at the internal or external hourly rate you assign them.
Core
Monthly charge export
Completed sessions, grouped by paying account, in a CSV your business office can post.
Core
Onboarding without email chains
Invite researchers by email, or post one join link and approve each access request.
Set up from your spreadsheet
Paste your apparatus list from Excel or Google Sheets. Water mazes, fear conditioning chambers, holding rooms, and dozens more open with their usual rules.
Approval for chosen rooms
Require approval per room or apparatus. A request holds the time until a manager approves or declines it.
Email reminders
Researchers get an email reminder about a day before each session.
Try it
Run the example behavior core
Approve a fear conditioning request, check in to an open field session, and export the month's charges. No account needed.
Questions
Behavior core questions
Can we book a room and the apparatus in it separately?
Yes. Add the room and each apparatus as separate resources. Each one gets its own calendar, rates, and rules.
How do repeat bookings handle a conflict?
A series is booked only if every session is open. If any session collides with another booking, nothing is created and the message lists the dates to change.
We run self-service and assisted testing. Does that work?
Yes. Researchers book and check in for self-service sessions, and core staff can book on a researcher’s behalf. Both use the hourly rate assigned to that researcher.
How do we record the paying account?
Every booking asks for a paying account, such as a lab, grant, chartstring, or PO. It appears in the monthly charge export.
Does it work with any brand of apparatus?
Yes. Scheduling does not connect to the apparatus itself, so any maze, chamber, or tracking workstation can be a bookable resource.
Planning the tests
ConductScience's free behavior core tools plan a test battery, schedule acclimation, check scoring reliability, build ethograms, and draft SOPs.
Move your behavior core off the shared calendar.
Start with a 30-day Core trial. Booking stays free after the trial.