[sudo-discuss] #OpenSource Bio: Tekla labs (UC Berkeley) and BBL Biohacker in Residence Launch

[Ryan Bethencourt]

Hi All,

We'll be launching the first *Biohackers in Residence program *at Berkeley
Biolabs (a way for Biohackers with promising commercial ideas to get access
to the lab regardless of your financial situation) next Thursday and I
wanted to send out an open invite to the event.

We'll also be having the team from *Tekla Labs* in who will be talking
about Open Source Global innovation in Biotech and the plans they're making
available to scientists and citizen scientists in the US and throughout the
world to help lower the cost of biotech.

http://www.meetup.com/Berkeley-Biolabs/events/166090902/

*p.s. don't forget tonight we're having our Open Source Bioreactor Hack
night at Berkeley Biolabs, bring your soldering irons as Sunny plans on
having a near final prototype for hacking at the event*

All the best,
Ryan

Tekla labs (UC Berkeley) and BBL Biohacker in Residence Launch

Talks:

Tekla Labs - Introduction to Tekla labs mission and an update on work done
so far to foster open innovation and access to low cost tools globally

Biohacker-In-Residence Program - An introduction to the program by Ron,
BBL's CSO and an invitation to apply, as well as an announcement of our
first Biohackers in Residence!

Speakers for the Event:


Lina Nilsson (one of MIT Tech Review's 35 Innovators under 35) and
co-founder of Tekla Labs will be speaking about lowering the cost of basic
biological research through making access to open source designs available
to all.

"Lina and the team offer another option: DIY. As cofounder of Tekla Labs,
an engineering collective on the Berkeley campus, she's curating and
distributing open-source, do-it-yourself designs for the gamut of common
lab gear. A shaker for separating excess dye from stained cells, for
instance, can be made from a discarded record turntable. A centrifuge can
be fashioned from a modified kitchen blender. A thermal cycler for
amplifying DNA requires only light bulbs and thermometers. In the hands of
scientists who historically have lacked access to equipment, such tools can
be powerful engines of innovation--generally, Nilsson says, at about
one-tenth the price of high-end commercial equipment."
http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2013/visionary/lina-nilsson/


Ron Shigeta - Co-Founder and CSO of Berkeley Biolabs

will be launching Berkeley Biolabs Biohacker in Residence program.

The Hacker-in-Residence program was conceived as a way to foster biotech
inventorship, accelerate innovation and strengthen the DIYbio community we
love, as well as provide access to the tools and resources that for the
most part are still attached to large commercial or academic labs and
typically not easily accessible for passion projects or ideas.

Come and join us on Thursday and let's accelerate Biotech together!

-- 
Ryan Bethencourt

Tel: (415) 825 2705
Conf Call: (650) 741 5013
ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com

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