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Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Subject: 2nd DIYBio Seattle Meeting
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Here is my post about the Seattle DIYBio group meeting. Thanks to all
those who participated,
mike
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2nd DIYBio Seattle Meeting
via bhiWay by mgaldzic on 1/31/09
Last night the Seattle DIY biologists met for a second time, this time
there were seventeen of us including myself, a first timer. The group
trickled into Dan Heidel's house in Phinney at around 8pm. Dan began
by telling us about his project to set up lab space in a commercial
space he rented in south Seattle which he is making open for use for
serious projects that any of us would like to undertake. He has been
buying up equipment and it is really starting to come together, but he
feels that if someone did start a project now chances are at least one
piece of necessary equipment would be missing. Not to mention
consumables which he has none of. Needless to say his effort, called
Seattle Open Bio Labs, LLC, is an amazing step forward in organizing
and a very generous gesture to share it with the group. Dan has been
buying equipment to create this environment where he hopes to create a
community of Open Science projects. He hopes to encourage all to keep
their lab notebooks online and open as transparency and open
collaboration is a powerful driving force behind innovation. Of
course if someone has a commercial goal in mind Dan is willing to
listen about specific cases. The question of where to find funding
for running this operation and supporting projects is a unanswered
question, and for the time being individuals would have to fund
themselves. The discussion of Dan's lab answers the main question
from Sandra Porter's post (see 1st meeting) about where to practice
DIYBio. (Sandra was unable to make this meeting). Still there remain
some todo's before starting, such as contacting the fire department
for advice on any permits and addressing concerns of the wary (Dan
does have Liability Insurance for the lab space).
After a significant amount of time we moved on. Dan does talk a lot,
but not in a bad way. We discussed project ideas from various other
members of the group.
Lifesuit to help paralyzed people walk (see http://theyshallwalk.org/ for more)
Growing neurons to generate solenoids, using growth factors and maybe
brewing GFP beer!
Produce our own enzymes to share the stock with the international DIY
Bio community
in vivo DNA synthesis, using light as input to dictate to the cell the
sequence of DNA. This would allow you to change the code of the cell
while it was running.
Setting up DIY Computational Biology (smallest amount of hurdles on
this one) BeBoBio
Making fuels from microorganisms
Geothermal cycling for speeding up growth
Nanosilver
Self stable ecological systems.
Bacteria that can metabolize polyethylene; Dan said Pseudomonas
Originalis which smell like grapes and plague burn victims may be
capable
Bio Weather Maps
Atendees:
Randy Hall, Kris Ganjam, Monty Reed, Dan Heidel, James Yang, Alec
Nielsen, Tyler Casey, Matt Crowley, Michal Galdzicki, Scott Mason,
Tracy Tucker, Max Berry, Ron Shevuah (4 names missing)
[I am missing some people and project ideas, please contact me if you
were there but i didnt jot down your name, sorry. Some peoples names
i got from the RSVPs so please if you weren't there and i listed you
above I appologize. ask me to correct it]
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