Biomedical Engineering Student and DIYBio Nube Interested in Synthetic Biology

[Alexandra Juego]

Hello everyone!

I'm a fourth year college student majoring in biomedical engineering and biochemistry. My knowledge of standard laboratory techniques is pretty good, since I've taken several lab courses and have worked in a few research labs since I started uni. I'm very interested in synthetic biology and am considering doing a synthetic biology inspired project for my capstone design project next Fall.  

How do you biohackers come up with ideas for your experiments and projects? And I also want to set up my own garage lab so that I can tinker on my own and learn new things. I guess I'm also wondering how to really get started doing DIYBio.

Thanks in advance for your feedback :)

Alex J.

[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

Usually people take the other approach... They have a goal in mind and then learn the techniques on the way... 

Where do you live - it heavily depands on what you are allowed to do in your basement.

There are also various directions in diy bio... 

Do you want to do 

- something of scientific relevance?

- Educate the public with smelly or glowing stuff? 

[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

Welcome to the list, btw

[Alexandra Juego]

I live in Houston, TX. And I want to do something of scientific relevance. I was thinking of engineering E. coli into a biosensor of sorts for diagnostic purposes. I'm also interested in peptide-based hydrogels. I just have no idea where to start.

[Meredith L. Patterson]

Greetings from a former Houstonian! Have you been to https://txrxlabs.org/ yet? They have a wet lab, and an open house every Friday night. There are a few members on this list.

Cheers,

--mlp

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Alexandra Juego <aca...@gmail.com> wrote:

I live in Houston, TX. And I want to do something of scientific relevance. I was thinking of engineering E. coli into a biosensor of sorts for diagnostic purposes. I'm also interested in peptide-based hydrogels. I just have no idea where to start.

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[Alexandra Juego]

Whoa! You're Meridith Patterson! I just read about you last night in Marcus Wohlson's Biopunk: Kitchen Counter Scientists Hack the Software of Life :) And I actually have never heard of that lab, but I looked it up and they have an Arduino class coming up. That'll definitely be helpful for the project I just took on. Thanks immensely! #gocoogs