DIY bio community in Kyiv

[Anton Kulaga]

I am glad to announce that DIY Bio community was created in Kyiv, Ukraine. Three bio workshops have already been conducted.

We also created G+ community ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101684884254252005977 ) and the mailing list ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/diybio-kiev ). If you happen to be in Kyiv feel free to join.

[Nathan McCorkle]

You're near chernobyl right? Maybe you can look for mutated plants or bacteria or something!

On Jul 20, 2013 3:19 PM, "Anton Kulaga" <anton...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am glad to announce that DIY Bio community was created in Kyiv, Ukraine. Three bio workshops have already been conducted.

We also created G+ community ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101684884254252005977 ) and the mailing list ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/diybio-kiev ). If you happen to be in Kyiv feel free to join.

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[Cathal Garvey (Phone)]

You mean the Chernobyl *exclusion zone*? :)

Congratulations Anton! You guys on the diybio.EU list? We're not 'EU' we're EUrope. :)

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[Mega [Andreas Sturm]]

Awesome! Wish you all the best for your biospace!

As Nathan mentions, radiation biology is very interesting, although also dangerous as diy project. Gather knowledge how to protect yourself if you hunt for mutated plants or lichens etc. 

[4phl...@gmail.com]

Depends on the definition of radiation I think- if you want to diy it, UV box exposure is an option (which might be an interesting project for doing mutation studies).

 

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[Cathal Garvey (Phone)]

Also, remember to measure your radiation in "banana equivalent dose units" prior to declaring it dangerous. Though, yes: many lab-uses of radiation will qualify as dangerous.. if it's usefully mutagenic it's also dangerously mutagenic. :)

4phl...@gmail.com wrote:

Depends on the definition of radiation I think- if you want to diy it, UV box exposure is an option (which might be an interesting project for doing mutation studies).

 

-sung

 

From: Mega [Andreas Sturm]
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Awesome! Wish you all the best for your biospace!

As Nathan mentions, radiation biology is very interesting, although also dangerous as diy project. Gather knowledge how to protect yourself if you hunt for mutated plants or lichens etc. 

 

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[Alexey Zaytsev]

Why would anyone want undirected mutagenesis anyway?

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[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 02:04:58PM +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:

> Why would anyone want undirected mutagenesis anyway?

Massive parallellism. If your selection step is high-processivity,
then it does make sense.

[Cathal Garvey (Phone)]

Because precision, safe modification is all but illegal in EU, whereas shotgun-crazy mass-mutagenesis followed by costly, error prone selection is totally fine.

[Andreas Sturm]

Yeah, it is mad and you won't believe it, but it really is legislation in the EU...

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[Anton Kulaga]

>You guys on the diybio.EU list? We're not 'EU' we're EUrope. :)

You mean http://www.diybio.eu/european-diy-bio-network/ ? No, not yet. We are just small group of people, we will need to cope with some legal issues and attract some new members to announce ourselves there.

2All:

it is common that most of the people think of Chernobyl when hear about Ukraine but it is not the only thing we have in Ukraine=) For instance Ukraine has the biggest gerontology institute in all ex-USSR so it is easier to do lifespan interventions on various model organisms in order to cure ageing. We are also not limited by many legal restrictions that are common in Europe, so from legal point of view experiments with genetic modification as well as animal experiments are much easier.

[Pieter]

There is no required group size to be mentioned on the .eu site. You may like to join the european mailing list, to keep track of events near by.
Good lyck with setting up your lab!