I want to thank everyone for your signing up for this class. The response has been overwhelming. People are still signing up today! Your kits are coming. The response has set us a little behind but if you haven’t received your kit yet you will receive it with the 2 month shipments going out now.
Month 2 means we are starting Chapter 3 of molecular biology of the cell. Finish up the material for Month 1 if you can!
The next live class is on Feb 6th 4PM California Time(check your time zones)
Sorry about late supplies. We just hired someone else to help get things out faster. Month 2 and Month 3 will be shipped out together this week for everyone.
Next Live Class will be tomorrow Feb 6th at 4PM PT California Time
i just found this exensive article on Medium about DIYbio - Almost Everything You Need to Know About “Biohacking”. It’s pretty well written, looks into the history, misses out quite a few things. but also clearly states that it’s a personal and US-biased article. but still quite a lot of good links to resources, stores, articles and initiatives.
So on Tuesday there was this kickoff meetup in Zurich, bio/electro hacking group. A bunch of people met, some work in a lab at the university hospital, some from the FabLab Zurich, some from Swiss Mechatronic Art / Hackteria and some with a general interest to learn about bio-hacking. https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-bio-electro-hacking-group/
We briefly spoke about the Odin biohacking class, and I said that I would like to see more hands on experiments or demos on how to handle stuff like pipettes etc in their video streams rather than talk only. (Like, a lot of YouTubers eg in electronics or material science show and comment in great detail what they do on their benches / in their workshops.) And someone in the meetup responded that maybe the Odin people don’t do that because if they gave away “too much information” in the form of concrete demos, they might be held responsible if someone duplicates what they did and fucks up and/or releases some harmful stuff into the world.
I think that’s an interesting point, and I wonder if that is really the reason why the class is kind of theoretical, not hands on?
And for those interested we meet again on Friday March 1st inside Baggenstoss/Rudolfsstudio, pls get in contact with him for further information. I will try to pass by shortly inbetween my pause at work to meet Claudia Rupprecht as well.
The class is much hands on and depends on the action and responsability of the participents, pls forward them the link from The Odin Youtube chanel. It needs a lot of concentration to follow up the classes. The Lab security situation is a different question, so I would say learning by doing with the right equipments, which we have! And about the anxiety of releasing something into the world, its about security and awareness about it. We all got pressure cookers at home, its called autoclavation process and we all got human rational thinking, bit of creativity and good instincts, trust and hope, right?
Our classes are back and will start again in early May!
Biohacker 101 runs people through the basics to teach them how to begin genetic engineering.
Biohacker 102 is an intermediate class that teaches people how to engineer and work with DNA and use companies to sequencing and synthesis what you need for your own project.
da gabs doch diesen anseren schweizer teilnehmer am kurs… irgendwo in kanton bern oder so.
hab den kontakt / website grad nicht mehr gefunden. kann mir jemand weiterhelfen?
Next Upcomming ONLINE CLASS with Josiah Zayner is with a guest speaker, George Church:
QUESTION/ANSWER setting
feel free to participate
here about the documentation CODE OF WILD with George Church and Zosiah Zayner partaking u.a.
George Church is known as the Founder of Synthetic Biology. He is a professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health sciences and Technology at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) He is Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy at Harvard and MIT and Director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at Harvard.
George is widely recognized for his innovative contributions to genomic science and his many pioneering contributions to chemistry and biomedicine. In 1984, he developed the first direct genomic sequencing method, which resulted in the first commercial genome sequence (the human pathogen, H. pylori). He helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984 and the Personal Genome Project in 2005. George invented the broadly applied concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, homologous recombination methods, and array DNA synthesizers.
Find more information by watching youtube videos or reading some of his scientific papers. Don’t miss tuning into the LIVE AMA on March 20th at 4pm PST.
George Church is a professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health sciences and Technology at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) He is Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy at Harvard and MIT and Director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at Harvard.
Biohacker 102 class is available for sign-ups. We will teach you how to purify, design and sequence your own DNA.
Hoi zäme,
freu mich auf morgen in grösserer Runde wiedermal zu besprechen was wir so alles machen, was wie und wo für andere auch interessant seind kann, wie es weitergehen soll und einen feinen Znacht zäme esse!
Ist ja jetzt der letzte Monat und geht mir CRISPR weiter… ich bin weiter dran mit Claudia eine Abmachung zu finden, wie und was wir gemeinsam erarbeiten können und die Registrierungen evt dann konkreter angehen.
hier noch das weekly update vom Josiah zum weiteren Kurs:
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From: Josiah Zayner <case@the-odin.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 11:39:27 PM GMT+1 Subject: Biohacker 101 - Info
I hope you all enjoyed Dr. Church last week. There is no live class this week.
Bez 102… wir machen ja nichtmal die “uufzgi” für 101. Glaub wir lassen uns lieber Zeit und machen das was und wann wir wollen.
hab mal mit der registrierung weitergemacht. wir sind jetzt als “Organisationseinheit” mit dem Verein “International Hackteria Society” registriert, können neue “Standorte” eintöggele und dann konkrete “Räumlichkeiten” anmelden via “Globalanmeldung” wo eigentlich nur drin stehen soll, was wir machen, zB mit leuchtenden Hefen spielen. evt noch Anhang dazu schreiben, wo wir unsere “Infrastruktur” beschreiben und sauber beschreiben, dass wir das züüg nicht eifach so ins WC spülen.
Wer will selber noch einen account um sich da mal umzuschauen?
ich kann für neue Personen einen account machen und das “Passwort generieren und ausdrucken” Amtlich!!!
nun endlich auch angemeldet!!