[DIYbio] Re: How to start with DIY bio?

nice thx

On Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 10:18:56 PM UTC+2, Pieter wrote:

All the devices we built during the BioHack Academy are published under CC license:
http://biohackacademy.github.io/
Taking the basic microbiology experiments as a starting point, you can build up a standard set of chemicals that you would most likely need:
http://biohackacademy.github.io/biofactory/class/1-incubator/microbiology-materials/

As you are already skilled in electronics, you should have no difficulty in building the incubators, pumps, controllers, centrifuges and spectrometers you need. Centrifuges might look scary at first, but you'll get used to that after a while. Just trust in your own hacking skills: http://biohackacademy.github.io/biofactory/class/5-centrifuge/

We have C. elegans in the lab for longevity studies. You can come and pick up a colony any time you are near Amsterdam. Or just ask researchers at an institute nearby, they are mostly generous people.

PCR can be done on a 3 hotplates with pots of water. Just move the tubes around. You don't necessarily need a machine for that. Depending on what exactly you are trying to PCR of course.

On Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:03:51 UTC+2, Benjamin Ölke wrote:

Hey Oliver, 

I am also located in Munich and I basically just started planning to do something similiar. I know a place where we could set up shop. What do you think about joining forces ? Im a bioinformatician by the way