Practical DIY Bio

Join this session to gain practical DIY Bio experience. This time we will assemble the OpenPCR for sure! The FabLab will be open, ensuring you can start turning your idea into reality instantly.

Preliminary Program

18.00 Welcome at the Waag Society: bring your own take away dinner from the abundant foodshops in the neighbourhood and meet other participants (we have plates and cutlery and drikns)... [read more]

Join this session to gain practical DIY Bio experience. This time we will assemble the OpenPCR for sure! The FabLab will be open, ensuring you can start turning your idea into reality instantly.

Preliminary Program

18.00 Welcome at the Waag Society: bring your own take away dinner from the abundant foodshops in the neighbourhood and meet other participants (we have plates and cutlery and drikns)
19.00 Presentation by David Louwrier about Zinc Fingering: Almost all vital information is in our genes, but the expression of the DNA also plays an enormous role, which is studied in the field of epigenetics. David Louwrier and artist, Adam Zaretsky, used zinc fingers to modify plants as an (artistic) experiment. Zinc fingers are proteins that bind a specific DNA sequence. By attaching a transcription factor to such a protein, the transcription of a large amount of genes can be affected in one experiment, sometimes leading to changes on the organism level. David explains why and how and what DIY biologists can learn from it.
19.20 Discussion
19.30 Hands-on !

Workshop: Assembling the OpenPCR
FabLab: Share your project and start working on it
Time for discussion about setting up a DIY Bio lab

21.00 Closure and drinks!

 

Interested in sharing your project? Contact @pietervboheemen

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