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* [http://armpits.yourwildlife.org/ Armpit Life] - where 2 day unwashed armpits are swabbed for culture and microbiome (deep sequencing) analysis  
 
* [http://armpits.yourwildlife.org/ Armpit Life] - where 2 day unwashed armpits are swabbed for culture and microbiome (deep sequencing) analysis  
 
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035552/ Crowd-sourcing Taste Research] - Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Museum) asks museum visitors for samples, the link is a scientific manuscript!!
 
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035552/ Crowd-sourcing Taste Research] - Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Museum) asks museum visitors for samples, the link is a scientific manuscript!!
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* [http://beerdecoded-presskit.strikingly.com/ Beer Decoded] - find out the genetic imprint of your favorite beer.
 
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Throughout the day, we will be taking samples from the workshop participants (with their consent), trying to PCR out their genotypes of the dopamine 4 receptor and the serotonin transporter, and observing the differences amongst us. <br>
 
Throughout the day, we will be taking samples from the workshop participants (with their consent), trying to PCR out their genotypes of the dopamine 4 receptor and the serotonin transporter, and observing the differences amongst us. <br>

Revision as of 11:06, 27 January 2016

WHEN

NEW DATE
Thursday 28th January 2016

Postponed....

9:45 -16:00 November 20th 2015

WHERE

House of the Academies, Laupenstrasse 7, Bern
Room „Mönch“, ground floor

http://www.science-et-cite.ch/

Sign Up

The number of participants for the workshop is limited. Please sign up by sending an email to cs (at) science-et-cite.ch by January 15 if you would like to take part in the workshop, or in the afternoon session, or both.

Costs

Costs: CHF 15.- for lunch

Schedule:

NEW Program

  1. a hands-on workshop in the morning and early afternoon
  2. a network meeting (network news, 3 short talks on biohacking and a long discussion) in the afternoon.


Workshop and talks are held by three people from the hackteria community (http://hackteria.org/):


Program
May change during the day.

9:30 Arrival of Participants, Welcome
9:45 Introduction and news from the Swiss Citizen Science Network
Pia Viviani, Jenny Flück

10:00 Workshop: a biohacker's kitchen laboratory
Urs Gaudenz, Sachiko Hirosue, Marc Dusseiller
- DIY experiments in the kitchen laboratory
- Showcase: biohacking tools for citizen science (various prototypes)

12:00 Lunch break and informal discussions

13:00 Overview: global transdisciplinary approaches to participatory science
Dr. Marc Dusseiller, transdisciplinary educator, biohacker and Hackteria's Global Ambassador
Focus: international, transdisciplinary education (mostly about coconuts)

13:20 Science hacking, open source scientific lab equipment
Dipl. Ing. Urs Gaudenz, lecturer for open innovation (HSLU) and open hardware developer (GaudiLabs)
Focus: true collaboration between institutional and non-institutional

13:40 Case study: bio-design for the real world - a collaborative model for interdisciplinary student education
Dr. Sachiko Hirosue, senior scientist EPFL, initiator of biodesign.cc
Focus: real world application, student involvement

14:00 Discussion – the role and responsibility of biohacking in citizen science
Moderator: Dipl. Ing. Urs Gaudenz

16:00 End

Workshop

Collecting genetic information for citizen science
Citizen science is not something new that arrived with DIYbiology or the era of crowd-sourcing. It has deep roots in formal societies, activist groups and other informal collectives of people that observe and documenting wildlife, natural resources, uncovering pollution, to name a few.
With the DIY OpenPCR, and other simple equipment available in the generic lab equipment, what could be a citizen science project that could be molecular?
There are already projects out there.

  • Armpit Life - where 2 day unwashed armpits are swabbed for culture and microbiome (deep sequencing) analysis
  • Crowd-sourcing Taste Research - Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Museum) asks museum visitors for samples, the link is a scientific manuscript!!
  • Beer Decoded - find out the genetic imprint of your favorite beer.


Throughout the day, we will be taking samples from the workshop participants (with their consent), trying to PCR out their genotypes of the dopamine 4 receptor and the serotonin transporter, and observing the differences amongst us.
These types of activities bring forth several questions of genetic privacy, who owns the data, open questions of genetics on our lives - how should these results be interpreted?
Material List

Urs brings:
- Laser cut parts for gel carriers (12x)
- Combs for gel (24x)
- 2x GelBox
- Blue Transilluminator
- Silicon glue
- Agar agar
- 1x High Power Supply (for Gel)
- HotPlate
- Flask for coocking agar
- Tesa Film to cast gel carriers
- Food colors for easy gel run
- Salt for gel buffer
- MyPCR thermocycler
- MicroTubes for PCR
- Sand paper
- Power Cords
- Banana Clips
- 9V Batteries
- Pipettor, Tips (?)
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- Sleeping Bag

Marc brings:
- Tupper ware for DIY GelBox
- Glue for Acrylic (Urs has no more)
- Coconut & stuff for demo
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Sachiko brings:
- PCR primers
- PCR mix
- agarose
- 100bp ladder
- PCR water
- clean tips and pipettes
- gel red - SYBR safe has not come in yet!
- PCR tubes
- Open PCR
- powerbox
- PCR tube rack

Readings

Positionspapier: Biohacking als emanzipierte Citizen Science

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Rüdiger Trojok (Biotinkering) in Kooperation mit ITAS/KIT

File:Eingabe GEWISS_rüdiger.pdf