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[DIYbio] DIY Bio Documentary Webseries

Dear DIYBiologists, biohackers, hobbyists, and citizen scientists,


We are Benjamin Welmond and Mary Tsang, a filmmaker and bio-artist, respectively, and graduates of Carnegie Mellon University. Together we are developing a documentary web-series on DIYBio and Art that uses biotechnology in its practices, with a greater goal of addressing public accessibility and literacy on Biology. We've been spending the last week contacting various artists, scientists, and writers that are influential in this growing community. We're inspired by the large activity of the DIYBio group, and would love to hear of any new projects and perspectives from around the United States and Canada.


Last March, we were fortunate to visit GenSpace in Brooklyn and gather footage of their Synthetic Biology class, as well as hear the perspectives of some of the co-founders. We will be using this footage for a Kickstarter video to fund our documentary-series. The web-series format allows this information to be as open and accessible to the public as possible. We're spending the next month developing an itinerary of people and places to visit, and it's important for us that this list has as much variety as possible. If you're interested, feel free to reply to this post or email us (diysect@gmail.com) about your exciting project and/or perspective. We would also love to hear any ideas or suggestions for point of discussion or interesting locations.


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[DIYbio] Marker assisted selection and DIYBio

Hi all,

as a techno-ignorant newbie I feel the right to pose another question which you may consider non-sense......how complex and expensive are MAS techniques? Could they be developed in a DIYBio-style, now or in a near future? Could equipments such as the OpenPCR lower the costs and, if so, to what extent??

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Re: [DIYbio] Re: São Paulo - Brazil HackerSpace

Erico,

I'd really like to have that discussion. In one month I'll know if I can get to Brazil with a scholarship, otherwise if want and have time I'd love to discuss with you these issues.....good luck for your lab!

Il giorno lunedì 13 maggio 2013 21:16:23 UTC+2, Erico Perrella ha scritto:

Hi Stefano, I would really like to discuss more with you about about agricutural biotechnology and the state of this field in Brazil, since I have some friends in the area (most of them starting companies to deal with some problems we find in the brazilian market, mainly in the biofuels arena). We could setup a meeting here with some of these guys.


Hi Jason, my office is close to the FAPESP office. If you want to chat, I could meet you on FAPESP, in my office or in our lab in USP. 
I really would like to chat about the state of DIYBio outside Brazil. 
I would also appreciate if you have some tips on how to actually organize an biohackerspace, gather support and involve people xD. We have some open doors with the municipal and federal government, so I think we should seize these opportunities, but not many people seems to be interested. 



2013/5/13 Jason Bobe <jaso...@gmail.com>
On Friday, April 12, 2013 2:47:57 PM UTC-4, Erico Perrella wrote:
Hi Everyone!

I have seen some discussion in the past about some attempts to organize a biohackerspace here in São Paulo. Since I think those discussions were not very succesful,  I am trying now to revive all that.

I am starting a biotech company in São Paulo together with some folks from USP, UNESP, IPEN and CETEM. 
We have some space available in a very good location (near Metro Barra Funda) that we could use to start a São Paulo Biohackerspace.

I am speaking at several USPs this week and I'll be near Metro Barra Funda on Wednesday (Rua Pio XI, 1500 - Alto da Lapa, São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil).

You around?

Jason Bobe

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Re: [DIYbio] Re: Policy and Regulations of GMOs

Will require much public relations, but "open science" could be a good issue to promote DIYBio acceptation.....in Europe many people is quite unconfortable with current patenting system, which has been one of the most recurrent argument in the anti-GMO campaigns over the last decades, even though the  European Commission is one the most strong supporters of invasive IP rights.....

Il giorno sabato 25 maggio 2013 13:21:47 UTC+2, Mega ha scritto:

> Also - "amateurs"? Not everybody who works in a DIYbio lab is an amateur.

Ok, language / language usage difference... Of course, they are not "amateurs" ,  but the public (in Europe) will see the as amateurs. They are not "professional scientists" - and the public doesn't even trust professional scientists... Nor will they trust some guy who works with "potential pathogens" (as they hear from wikipedia) in an improvised lab...

Will require much public relations...



On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <pat...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:50:12 PM UTC-7, Mega wrote:
Ok, see your point. But how do you tell the public that "amateurs" work with "potential pathogens"? with BS1 you can say there is practically no risk.

Carefully.

Rather than explaining to the public what the upper limits of BSL-2/BS2 include, I  think it is far more useful to explain what kind of work you intend to do (or explicitly *not* do) in your lab. Just because you have a BSL-2 lab doesn't mean that you have to allow people working with Dengue, for example.

As for working with "potential pathogens" - the general public already assumes E. coli is a dangerous pathogen anyway. So pragmatically speaking, it is no more of an uphill battle to convince people that we can safely work with C. violaceum than with E. coli. And people will naturally assume that isolating cellulose degrading bacteria from soil is FAR safer than genetically engineering E. coli.

Also - "amateurs"? Not everybody who works in a DIYbio lab is an amateur. And hardly anyone working in a BSL-2 lab will be. BSL-2 does require access controls (i.e., a door with a lock) and rigorous training, so typically only the people who know very well what they are doing will be working in the BSL-2 part of the lab.

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> Also - "amateurs"? Not everybody who works in a DIYbio lab is an amateur.

Ok, language / language usage difference... Of course, they are not "amateurs" ,  but the public (in Europe) will see the as amateurs. They are not "professional scientists" - and the public doesn't even trust professional scientists... Nor will they trust some guy who works with "potential pathogens" (as they hear from wikipedia) in an improvised lab...

Will require much public relations...



On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <pat...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:50:12 PM UTC-7, Mega wrote:
Ok, see your point. But how do you tell the public that "amateurs" work with "potential pathogens"? with BS1 you can say there is practically no risk.

Carefully.

Rather than explaining to the public what the upper limits of BSL-2/BS2 include, I  think it is far more useful to explain what kind of work you intend to do (or explicitly *not* do) in your lab. Just because you have a BSL-2 lab doesn't mean that you have to allow people working with Dengue, for example.

As for working with "potential pathogens" - the general public already assumes E. coli is a dangerous pathogen anyway. So pragmatically speaking, it is no more of an uphill battle to convince people that we can safely work with C. violaceum than with E. coli. And people will naturally assume that isolating cellulose degrading bacteria from soil is FAR safer than genetically engineering E. coli.

Also - "amateurs"? Not everybody who works in a DIYbio lab is an amateur. And hardly anyone working in a BSL-2 lab will be. BSL-2 does require access controls (i.e., a door with a lock) and rigorous training, so typically only the people who know very well what they are doing will be working in the BSL-2 part of the lab.

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[DIYbio] Re: Open source and bio-hacking for localized agriculture (bio)technological developments

Heath Flax,

Sorry for replying so late, I had been superbusy and I forgot to follow the evolution of the post.....

aniway, thanks for your interesting comments, have you received my previous message? I'm a newbie both on biotech research and googlegroups, I really need to work on my tech skills....

However, I'd obviosuly like to continue the discussion, also because I don't understand the little interest of cpmpanies for something that could be so valuable....but does that fruit have a market??

I cannot find your e-mail, mine is goliste1@hotmail.com, just send me a message......otherwise we can continue here, but as you said you'd prefer a more private space...

Il giorno lunedì 20 maggio 2013 10:29:30 UTC+2, Heath Flax ha scritto:



On Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:20:06 PM UTC-4, goliste1 wrote:
Hi all,

I am a PhD candidate in Politics and I will investigate to what extent might open source arrangements and bio-hacking practices affect biotechnological R&D, enabling the pursuit of goals focused on the local level and on the farmers' needs rather than on the interestes of corporations and state elites.

Is there someone interested in these issues, i.e. development, food security, global justice, commons, etc.?

I have no scientific preparation at all, so I think I'm an exception in this blog, but I really admire your work and I think it could have a huge impact on global agriculture.....

Cheers,

Stefano
goli...@hotmail.com  
  

Stefano: Partly because I'm guessing that we're both forum-newcomers here, and partly because of the importance and relevance I see in your potential project...well, first to say, glad to read of your potential project.

Politics much in projects based on "farmers'" not corporations needs? 
Well, my aproximately fifteen-year project (of trying to come up with specimens of a certain fruit variety, _immune_ to a currently incurable and as well , mostly untreatable disease of that fruit--a project I  that l feel--assuming the final test gets done [hopefully very soon] and proves one or more of my specimens completely immune-) "should"hit seems, find waiting  much interest and it'd seem pretty ready uptake (in parnership) by some chosen business or research entity in the fruit growing "sphere."
But for a year now, it's been  seeming to prove to be a project that the professional entities cited,may prefer to decline to cooperate with.  So far, even "in the slightest."

In other words, it's looking as to this particular significant disease of this particular fruit, pretty likely that the first known fully immune specimen are at hand.  Yet, the carefully professional outfits contacted so far--ones very prominent currently in research of such matters with this exact fruit in particular--have,so far, failed to respond whatsoever, to my broaching of my research results and interest in discussing potential partnering or other development.  Zero replies to careful, thorough letters.
All I can figure, is that the difficulties shall I say, ensuing from  the , yes "corporate and state elites" , must be the gist of what's probably going on.

As permitted by time to discuss, which it seems I should around now, have quite a bit of, I'd be glad to discuss more, and probably at least some right here on this forum, if you want.  Some discussion, unsure just how much, I might need to go a little more private than a forum, to continue.

I can try to watch this forum; or, my email is listed and available I think, thanks.

--heathflax

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On Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:20:06 PM UTC-4, goliste1 wrote:
Hi all,

I am a PhD candidate in Politics and I will investigate to what extent might open source arrangements and bio-hacking practices affect biotechnological R&D, enabling the pursuit of goals focused on the local level and on the farmers' needs rather than on the interestes of corporations and state elites.

Is there someone interested in these issues, i.e. development, food security, global justice, commons, etc.?

I have no scientific preparation at all, so I think I'm an exception in this blog, but I really admire your work and I think it could have a huge impact on global agriculture.....

Cheers,

Stefano
goli...@hotmail.com  
  

Stefano: Partly because I'm guessing that we're both forum-newcomers here, and partly because of the importance and relevance I see in your potential project...well, first to say, glad to read of your potential project.

Politics much in projects based on "farmers'" not corporations needs? 
Well, my aproximately fifteen-year project (of trying to come up with specimens of a certain fruit variety, _immune_ to a currently incurable and as well , mostly untreatable disease of that fruit--a project I  that l feel--assuming the final test gets done [hopefully very soon] and proves one or more of my specimens completely immune-) "should"hit seems, find waiting  much interest and it'd seem pretty ready uptake (in parnership) by some chosen business or research entity in the fruit growing "sphere."
But for a year now, it's been  seeming to prove to be a project that the professional entities cited,may prefer to decline to cooperate with.  So far, even "in the slightest."

In other words, it's looking as to this particular significant disease of this particular fruit, pretty likely that the first known fully immune specimen are at hand.  Yet, the carefully professional outfits contacted so far--ones very prominent currently in research of such matters with this exact fruit in particular--have,so far, failed to respond whatsoever, to my broaching of my research results and interest in discussing potential partnering or other development.  Zero replies to careful, thorough letters.
All I can figure, is that the difficulties shall I say, ensuing from  the , yes "corporate and state elites" , must be the gist of what's probably going on.

As permitted by time to discuss, which it seems I should around now, have quite a bit of, I'd be glad to discuss more, and probably at least some right here on this forum, if you want.  Some discussion, unsure just how much, I might need to go a little more private than a forum, to continue.

I can try to watch this forum; or, my email is listed and available I think, thanks.

--heathflax

Il giorno lunedì 20 maggio 2013 10:29:30 UTC+2, Heath Flax ha scritto:


On Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:20:06 PM UTC-4, goliste1 wrote:
Hi all,

I am a PhD candidate in Politics and I will investigate to what extent might open source arrangements and bio-hacking practices affect biotechnological R&D, enabling the pursuit of goals focused on the local level and on the farmers' needs rather than on the interestes of corporations and state elites.

Is there someone interested in these issues, i.e. development, food security, global justice, commons, etc.?

I have no scientific preparation at all, so I think I'm an exception in this blog, but I really admire your work and I think it could have a huge impact on global agriculture.....

Cheers,

Stefano
goli...@hotmail.com  
  

Stefano: Partly because I'm guessing that we're both forum-newcomers here, and partly because of the importance and relevance I see in your potential project...well, first to say, glad to read of your potential project.

Politics much in projects based on "farmers'" not corporations needs? 
Well, my aproximately fifteen-year project (of trying to come up with specimens of a certain fruit variety, _immune_ to a currently incurable and as well , mostly untreatable disease of that fruit--a project I  that l feel--assuming the final test gets done [hopefully very soon] and proves one or more of my specimens completely immune-) "should"hit seems, find waiting  much interest and it'd seem pretty ready uptake (in parnership) by some chosen business or research entity in the fruit growing "sphere."
But for a year now, it's been  seeming to prove to be a project that the professional entities cited,may prefer to decline to cooperate with.  So far, even "in the slightest."

In other words, it's looking as to this particular significant disease of this particular fruit, pretty likely that the first known fully immune specimen are at hand.  Yet, the carefully professional outfits contacted so far--ones very prominent currently in research of such matters with this exact fruit in particular--have,so far, failed to respond whatsoever, to my broaching of my research results and interest in discussing potential partnering or other development.  Zero replies to careful, thorough letters.
All I can figure, is that the difficulties shall I say, ensuing from  the , yes "corporate and state elites" , must be the gist of what's probably going on.

As permitted by time to discuss, which it seems I should around now, have quite a bit of, I'd be glad to discuss more, and probably at least some right here on this forum, if you want.  Some discussion, unsure just how much, I might need to go a little more private than a forum, to continue.

I can try to watch this forum; or, my email is listed and available I think, thanks.

--heathflax

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[DIYbio] Re: Open source and bio-hacking for localized agriculture (bio)technological developments

Jonathan,

I agree on most of what you're saying but here in Europe we are now caring a lot about what we eat, especially in relation to GMO....I am rather against contemporary GMOs - as they don't bring any particular advantage excepted for very large-scale industrial agricuture - but here in the EU we're becoming hysteric and that's very bad because there is pro/anti deadlock that is paralyzing public biotechnological research, with the consecuence of finally favoring (in the medium term) companies such as Syngenta or Monsanto....


Il giorno lunedì 27 maggio 2013 06:23:33 UTC+2, Jonathan Cline ha scritto:

Several of the projects I've proposed are food security related. Wait, does that phrase even exist?  Why do we need security in food?  Rhetorical question, maybe you get my point.  It's actually called food safety and that's why the melanometer project created a lot of publicity.  The FDA-government-corporate institutions apparently do not care about food safety, really, or it would try harder to enforce it and verify it.  Anyway, the entire food distribution system needs checks on product which apparently can't be done reasonably at any point in the system with currently available technology, let alone a checked by a consumer (suppose a mother wants to check for melamine in the infant milk she just purchased).   Basically, at each point in the system, someone is passing goods for as much money as they can make, versus passing goods at the highest quality they can provide.  It's a reflection of the world consumer base, which, if you count the number of cars in line for a McDonald's drive thru on any given day, just literally does not care what goes into their bodies.   If they cared, they wouldn't eat there.. or attempt fad diets.. or buy junk food.. or soda..  or interpret 2000 year-old religious texts as medical advice for what to, or what not to, eat and which days of the week are good for eating it..  or a thousand other ridiculous things.  So the question points to a systemic flaw: if consumers don't care, why would local farmers care?  And if local farmers cared, why wouldn't their marketing affect consumers decisions?   My only conclusion so far is that very few people in the world (less than 0.02%) actually care about food quality; by the way, that's about the order of magnitude of low fat vegans in the world too.  Tell me why I can't go to the pharmacy or grocery store and buy a machine which measures the arsenic in rice, after the FDA was recently forced to admit that a majority of rice in the U.S. contained above healthy levels of arsenic; it's because no one in the system cares: no market, no demand, product.

With that said, it's a near perfect win for open source technology, because open source creators are indifferent to market forces or profit motives.  Open source technology is made via the whims of the creators, often for the creators' own use.   (Linux was not made in order to eventually be purposed by Google and put into Android phones.  It was made because Linus thought it was fun and cool and useful for his own PC, period.)   Open source has the power to innovate food safety where nearly every other angle has failed.  Which was why I wanted a melanometer -- so I could measure my own milk (that is, before I gave up drinking milk completely).  I'd like a simple white box on my kitchen counter to measure a variety of other bad things in today's food, though.   A GMO-soy-detection machine would be nice. (I'm not saying GMO soy is bad or good; it would simply be great to know if the label which says "GMO-free" in fact matches the product, or not.)  Obviously, farmers would find a GMO-soy-detection device really useful too.   Sure, there are other ways to accomplish much of this, but not in real time, and not cheaply.


On Sunday, May 12, 2013 9:20:06 AM UTC-7, goliste1 wrote:
Hi all,

I am a PhD candidate in Politics and I will investigate to what extent might open source arrangements and bio-hacking practices affect biotechnological R&D, enabling the pursuit of goals focused on the local level and on the farmers' needs rather than on the interestes of corporations and state elites.



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