GMU:Diy biolab drivers license WiSe25

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Venue: Marienstraße 5, room 202/204

Lecturer(s): Alessandro Volpato

First meeting: Apr. 15th 2024

Day 1: 24.October 9.15 - 12.30 / 13.30 - 16.45

Day 2: 25.October 9.15 - 12.30

Introduction to the Do-It-Yourself biology lab:

  • Examples of bioart, and how to produce art using biological agents
  • Rules of the lab
  • Description and introduction to lab equipment
  • Brainstorming session to shape up ideas

The course serves as introduction to the DIY BioLab and its routine.


Activities:

  • Lecture: how to work in a lab
  • Practice: how to cultivate microbes (slime mold)
  • Inputs: brainstorming session about design and experiment

Work: document the outcome of the brain storming session


Main topics will be:

- Safety in the BioLab

- Introduction to lab equipment

- Introduction to lab organisms, setting and taking care of cultures

- Drafting and conceiving projects involving biological agents


Admission and Contact:

  • No previous experience in a laboratory is required
  • Write a short E-Mail introducing yourself and the motivation that brought you to the course. If you have a project in mind, describe the idea in a couple of sentence.
  • Alessandro Volpato
  • E-Mail: alessandro.volpato@uni-weimar.de