March 2017
Make Rhein-Main 2017
Biotop takes part to the Make Rhein-Main faire this year! We'll be together with the Heidelberg Makerspace and we'll present there our DIY biohacking equipment! We'll try to bring our PCR machine and our spectrometer plus some plasticware and reagents to run mock PCRs and check interesting absorbance spectra. If you're curious about biohacking and DIYbio, don't miss our stand!
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April 2017
Biotop @ March for Science
Biotop Community Lab e.V. takes part to the worldwide March for Science in support of critical thinking and informed decision-making! We have set up an interactive educational activity on DNA barcoding! All you need is your smartphone and curiosity! Look around for trees along the march path to discover more about what DNA barcoding is and how it can be used. Hope to see you all there!
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March 2018
Grow-it-yourself Mushroom Material Workshop – Part 1
Background The first workshop of this year will be about biomaterials! For most of us, mushrooms are an ingredients found on pizza or risotto. But after this workshop, not anymore. With entirely different eyes, you will see mushrooms as a new building material to manufacture objects, furniture and even buildings. If you think about it, we use living organisms as manufacturing material all the time: furniture is made with trees, clothes with cotton flowers and fur or skin and more.…
Find out more »Grow-it-yourself Mushroom Material Workshop – Part 2
Background The first workshop of this year will be about biomaterials! For most of us, mushrooms are an ingredients found on pizza or risotto. But after this workshop, not anymore. With entirely different eyes, you will see mushrooms as a new building material to manufacture objects, furniture and even buildings. If you think about it, we use living organisms as manufacturing material all the time: furniture is made with trees, clothes with cotton flowers and fur or skin and more.…
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