Sounds like a great start! I'd start with the club just doing like some bacterial transformations, that is probably the most essential thing there is and it takes some time to become good at creating them. (PCR reactions and cloning reactions are easy once you learn how to do them, yet companies still make tons of money on competent cells because they are hard to make, we have a lab of consisting of about 6 people, and 1 of them is devoted to creating them)
-- Either check out Carolina's transformation guides or Cathal's on github (just look up biohacking github)
I also have to agree: Don't wait for courses and such. I have known a couple of people that dropped out of Synbio because they insisted on reading instead of experimenting. Anyway, the club will get somewhere with that kind of support, but try and get a college to help you! Often they actually want to because one of the things like NIH looks for in grants is outreach programs
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:54:04 AM UTC-7, Linda wrote:
I'm actually in the U.S., and my school usually allows about 1.5-2 hours after school, or lunch (about 50 minutes) for extracurriculars like this - with full access to labs. I have had 6 people interested so far (not including myself), with the highest level of training and understanding of introductory college biology. However, we're enrolling in some coursera/ edX courses that go more in depth this summer, to prepare for the club next school year. I'm also thinking of trying to ask a local college professor/ researcher to support the club, since that has happened in some other clubs in the school.Thank you !Linda
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