Re: [DIYbio] Re: Community Lab in Melbourne, Australia

Hi Chris,

I've been involved with co-founding 3 biohackerspaces/biolabs (Counter Culture Labs, Berkeley Biolabs and IndieBio SF) and one hacker space (Sudo Room) and there are a few of my fellow co-founders here the could help as well and I highly recommend reaching out to the biofoundry (in Sydney) who are starting up too who will be able to help.

Here are some basic steps to set up a biohacker lab

1. Community is key, you can get started with weekly/biweekly meetings of 5-10 people, focus on one unifying project to get everyone excited and you can start moving on that project before you even have a space (even using someone's garage or spare room until you get a space up and  running). The key is to start and not wait for a space, the space will come after you build the community

2. Community is KEY - set up a meetup.com account as an earlier poster indicated

3. Make sure you have a twitter and facebook presence both personal and for the biohacker lab (that's another route people will find you).

When it comes time to set up a lab, Genspace did a great open lab project which will help provide some guidance and if you need further help feel free to reach out to more people who have been building their labs and launched them. My advice is start with a really small space as sustainability is always a problem for small biohacker labs, the cheaper the space the better!

http://2014.igem.org/Team:Genspace

Feel free to reach out to me if you need more help!

Best,

Ryan

On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 9:28:56 PM UTC-8, Andrew Gray wrote:

Hi Abdenour,

    I was just checking back here to follow up a lead and saw your post. Chris is part of the BioHack Melb facebook group, check it out.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/698017880316967/

Really interested to look into your fablab. Do you know of any other similar endeavours/projects/start-ups?

Andrew

On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 1:29:40 PM UTC+11, Abdenour Saaid wrote:

Hi Christopher Pendlebury 

I am based in Melbourne too, and i have started a Fablab workshop in Alphinton, near Fairefield. I am a biologogist by formation, but have been working in the vocational sector both as trainer and rto manager since migrating to australia.

After seeing what synthetic biology can accomplish i am convinced that digital fabrication tools (bioprinters & wetlabs equipment in general) are the way to go to setup a DYIbio lab, in ourlab we are tryinh to have an integrated approach to fabrication using digital fabrication tools to print biology.

Even enginnering concepts and processes are being adapted for biofabrication for example (iGEM, BIOBRICKS, Openwetware), we do have the lab setup already and i would be very interested to meet with you and discuss the prospect of collaboration. This is our website, where you can find our contact: http://masteringdigitalfabrication.com/

Cheers

On Friday, March 2, 2012 at 2:47:45 AM UTC+11, Christopher Pendlebury wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm embarking on a project to build a community lab in Melbourne,
Australia, with a focus on biology, biotechnology and bioinformatics.
Because of some of my contacts, the bioinformatics aspect could
potentially include high-end NGS analytics.

The lab will be bootstrapped, and funded by memberships and
sponsorships. I would very much like to know who would be interested
in being involved with this project, and who would like to join when
it is up and running?

Cheers
Chris

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