GMU:DIY Biolab License SS23

Werkmodul Fachmodul
Lecturer(s): Category:Alessandro Volpato
Credits: 4 SWS
Date: 17 and 19 April
Venue: DIY Biolab @ Marienstraße 7b, Room 202
Time: 17 April 10.00 to 17.00, 19 April 13.30 to 16.45

The course has the purpose of introducing the students to the lab, its activities and its equipment. By attending this course students get an allowance to access the biolab. Students will be sollicited to conceptualise own projects and execute it, to get familiar with a biology laboratory routine.

Syllabus

Day 1: (6h)

• Introduction to the course
• Inputs: Examples of work done in DIY BioLabs

• Introduction to the lab, Lab safety
• Learn to cultivate a mushroom in vitro
• Document the experiment

Day 2: (6h)

• Brainstorming session
• Inputs from the lecturer: How to generate ideas in a DIY BioLab
• Generate ideas
• Pitch ideas
• Choose one idea and develop it further

Project Days: (10h)

• Conceptualise a small project 2h
• Create a small project 7h
• Document a small project 1h