Microbiology at Home: A Short Non-Laboratory Manual for Enthusiasts and BioArtists

[s.p...@surrey.ac.uk]

Hello Everyone

 

There might be some useful advice/techniques for beginners in the attached.Enjoy!

 

Best wishes

 

Simon  

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

Nice! I've passed on your "Microbiology at Home" manual to tons of people in the past - guess I'll need to send them an update. I love the new pictures you've added on the purple cabbage plates etc.

By the way, we'll be doing a little experiment to develop DIY chromogenic media with Counter Culture Labs next weekend. We're trying to keep everything food safe so we can use this to run Microbiology 101 experiments with kids. So we'll be trying out a whole range of different food pigments in agar, and then see if we can differentiate colonies from baker's yeast, a probiotic Lactobacillus blend, and maybe some Kombucha samples.

I know you've worked on this as well, and I may try to turn this into a little global DIYbio competition. Should be a lot safer than working with soil isolates, although of course there's still the risk of contamination with pathogens from the air, skin or saliva.

Patrik

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[s.p...@surrey.ac.uk]

Thanks Patrik!

[Stefania]

This is really inspiring!

thanks a lot for sharing.

Stefania Druga - Founder

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[Pieter van Boheemen]

Good luck with the workshop Partik. Working with fooo bacteria is a good idea. At the workshop last week we also tried to grow lactobacillus and  yeast, since we are looking for a reference strain that anybody van obtain easily. The resultaat weer bot conclusive, especially since we were incubating at 25 C

On Tuesday, November 5, 2013, Stefania <druga.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is really inspiring!
> thanks a lot for sharing.
>
> Stefania Druga - Founder
>
> +1 415 503 89 44
>
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>
> HacKIDemia: Inspire the kids to imagine a better tomorrow 
>
> and give them the tools to build it!
>

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