[DIYbio] Re: International DIY-Bio Project

I propose that we set a project that everyone works on collaboratively around the globe for a few hours each week. It would be a really good way to share the resources each of us has and collectively we could do something more than each of us on our own. I would be a really good way to get to know each other more, as working in a team will provide insights about others that we might not get from just talking on the forum.

The project should be something that doesn't require us posting stuff to each other, but instead should be available where ever we are. Maybe we can pick a new organism and all work on getting it sequenced and it's genes annotated, but should be reasonably common and legal to culture in all countries. Or maybe we want to build organisms that survive on Mars and pool our information together and share design of plasmids etc.

I am really keen to get into this, as I just finished buying all my reagents. My lab is about 4 weeks away from being fully functional!

If anyone would like to be a part of a project like this, put your ideas for what you would like to do, what type of project you would like to work on, and how you would like to run it below and we'll get something started. It would be awesome if we collectively could get something published as 'hobby scientists' in a journal.

Meow

PS - I vote for the Mars project (It is good because it is very accesible to a variety of disciplines, making it easy for non-biologists). This would be really good for people joining the forum, as we can say, "help us with this project. Your job is X. Thanks for helping us!"