Bio Lab Infrastructure

How to start a DIWO art-sci bio lab?
If you can't build your lab, you don't own the lab

See a version from Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr, Workshopologist and from Urs Gaudenz, Dipl. Ing. Mikrotechnik

See an old version of the slides

People not Infrastructure

 * Lab Making | The Book: HackteriaLab 2014 - Yogyakarta, by Urs Gaudenz, Sachiko Hirosue

Instructions on lab-making

"Making a Laboratory is both a spontaneous activity and a slow labor of love."

A Lab is a place to labor (not only of love), experiment, research and share - there is no labor, experiment, research or sharing without the people. A Lab is not a museum for journalists, but a place made by a person for other people Start a small Lab, put it in a box, suitcase, backpack, picnic basket and take it with you. A Mobile Lab it actually allows you to go to people, and not wait for the others to come.

Now also on Medium, revised edition.




 * Lab Infrastructure / Equipment

Experiences from setting up the BioTehna Lab Infrastructure. People not equipment. 20% Science 80% Rock'n'Roll.

Materials list for electronic prototyping from ali-express: here

Thoughts about Infrastructural Hospitality
People putting boxes to make people feel comfortable... like someone running a restaurant, make sure your people are well fed and feel comfortable.

Lab Gear
- trash bin for separating garbage - incubator - fridge with freezer - additional shelves - DIY PCR - couple of shelves - centrifuge - OD meter

Organisms
http://lgcstandards-atcc.org/Default.aspx?base

http://www.ccap.ac.uk/

Chemicals
Slovenian distributors of lab chemicals, including enzymes and stuff

http://www.majbert.com/

http://www.kemomed.si/

http://www.omega.si/

http://www.kefo.si/ Everything you ever wanted to know about agar http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5822E/x5822e03.htm

Labware
http://www.tehtnica.si/

http://www.sanolabor.si/

http://market.mikro-polo.si/

http://dx.com/p/mg16129-c-5-led-auxiliary-clip-magnifier-black-white-eu-plug-110-240v-3-x-aa-193552

Electronics
http://www.hte.si/

http://www.conrad.si/ (supposedly too expensive)

http://dx.com/ order gadgets and electronics from china/HK

Helpful local institutions, companies and other people we have had pleasant interactions with in the past
http://www.algen.si/

http://ibk.mf.uni-lj.si/defaultslo.html

http://www.arhiv.mop.gov.si/si/o_ministrstvu/organiziranost/direktorat_za_okolje/

Other links on how to start a DIWO BioHackArt lab
From the Waag Do-It-Together biolab check their

Using eBay to set up a molecular biology lab: costs less than $1000!

exerpts from the DIYbio maillist assembled on openWetWare

Instructable how to set up a home chemistry lab

makezine, setting up a home science lab part 1 part 2, part 3

From IndieBiotech aka Cathal Garvey not much on it, but a start.

more of Cathal's protocolls on github

Good Microbiological Practice
http://www.lbl.gov/ehs/biosafety/manual/html/AppxD.shtml