[DIYbio] Trying to save Freeside Atlanta's bio lab

Hey I'm from the hackerspace Freeside Atlanta.

We just got a huge bio lab donation and we don't really know what to with it. We have a couple people in the space who are interested but most of our members don't know much about biology or chemistry.

So most of our members don't see much use for the donation and are thinking about getting rid of most of it. They gave me a date to show them that there would probably be enough interest and project ideas to justify it taking up some prime real estate in our space. 

I'm not in bio or chemistry, but I'm trying to save the bio lab by finding people who would use it for cool things and i'm trying to figure out what kinds of cool things we can do with the equipment we got.

The equipment includes:

• A big hood with a hepa filter,
• Incubators,
• a liquid handling machine,
• a rotary evaporator,
• tons of glassware for airless chemistry,
• a mass spectrometer for organic stuff,
• microscopes and stains,
• a centrifuge,
• and a bunch of other stuff I'm not even sure what it is.

So my main question is where should I reach out to find the people who would like to play with this stuff. And my secondary question, is all of this stuff useful for bio / chemistry hacking.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Nathan