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Citizen science is not something new that arrived with DIYbiology or the era of crowd-sourcing. It has deep roots in formal societies, activist groups and other informal collectives of people that observe and documenting wildlife, natural resources, uncovering pollution, to name a few. <br> | Citizen science is not something new that arrived with DIYbiology or the era of crowd-sourcing. It has deep roots in formal societies, activist groups and other informal collectives of people that observe and documenting wildlife, natural resources, uncovering pollution, to name a few. <br> | ||
With the DIY OpenPCR, and other simple equipment available in the generic lab equipment, what could be a citizen science project that could be molecular? | With the DIY OpenPCR, and other simple equipment available in the generic lab equipment, what could be a citizen science project that could be molecular? |
Revision as of 11:32, 27 January 2016
Contents
WHEN
NEW DATE
Thursday 28th January 2016
Postponed....
9:45 -16:00 November 20th 2015
WHERE
House of the Academies, Laupenstrasse 7, Bern
Room „Mönch“, ground floor
http://www.science-et-cite.ch/
Sign Up
The number of participants for the workshop is limited. Please sign up by sending an email to cs (at) science-et-cite.ch by January 15 if you would like to take part in the workshop, or in the afternoon session, or both.
Costs
Costs: CHF 15.- for lunch
Schedule:
NEW Program
- a hands-on workshop in the morning and early afternoon
- a network meeting (network news, 3 short talks on biohacking and a long discussion) in the afternoon.
Workshop and talks are held by three people from the hackteria community (http://hackteria.org/):
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9:30 Arrival of Participants, Welcome
9:45 Introduction and news from the Swiss Citizen Science Network
Pia Viviani, Jenny Flück
10:00 Workshop: a biohacker's kitchen laboratory
Urs Gaudenz, Sachiko Hirosue, Marc Dusseiller
- DIY experiments in the kitchen laboratory
- Showcase: biohacking tools for citizen science (various prototypes)
12:00 Lunch break and informal discussions
13:00 Overview: global transdisciplinary approaches to participatory science
Dr. Marc Dusseiller, transdisciplinary educator, biohacker and Hackteria's Global
Ambassador
Focus: international, transdisciplinary education (mostly about coconuts)
13:20 Science hacking, open source scientific lab equipment
Dipl. Ing. Urs Gaudenz, lecturer for open innovation (HSLU) and open hardware
developer (GaudiLabs)
Focus: true collaboration between institutional and non-institutional
13:40 Case study: bio-design for the real world - a collaborative model for
interdisciplinary student education
Dr. Sachiko Hirosue, senior scientist EPFL, initiator of biodesign.cc
Focus: real world application, student involvement
14:00 Discussion – the role and responsibility of biohacking in citizen science
Moderator: Dipl. Ing. Urs Gaudenz
16:00 End
Workshop
Collecting genetic information for citizen science
Citizen science is not something new that arrived with DIYbiology or the era of crowd-sourcing. It has deep roots in formal societies, activist groups and other informal collectives of people that observe and documenting wildlife, natural resources, uncovering pollution, to name a few.
With the DIY OpenPCR, and other simple equipment available in the generic lab equipment, what could be a citizen science project that could be molecular?
There are already projects out there.
- Armpit Life - where 2 day unwashed armpits are swabbed for culture and microbiome (deep sequencing) analysis
- Crowd-sourcing Taste Research - Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Museum) asks museum visitors for samples, the link is a scientific manuscript!!
Material List
Urs brings:
- Laser cut parts for gel carriers (12x)
- Combs for gel (24x)
- 2x GelBox
- Blue Transilluminator
- Silicon glue
- Agar agar
- 1x High Power Supply (for Gel)
- HotPlate
- Flask for coocking agar
- Tesa Film to cast gel carriers
- Food colors for easy gel run
- Salt for gel buffer
- MyPCR thermocycler
- MicroTubes for PCR
- Sand paper
- Power Cords
- Sleeping Bag
Marc brings:
- Tupper ware for DIY GelBox
- Glue for Acrylic (Urs has no more)
- Coconut & stuff for demo
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Readings
Positionspapier: Biohacking als emanzipierte Citizen Science
Rüdiger Trojok (Biotinkering) in Kooperation mit ITAS/KIT