BioCurious

03/12/2025

We have three new hands-on classes lined up for March, register now and help us spread the word!

Saturday March 15th 1 - 5pm
Nanopore DNA Sequencing Class with Kurt!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nanopore-sequencing-hands-on-class-tickets-1280325310469

Sunday March 16th 1pm - 5pm
Wet-Lab Plant Tissue Culture Workshop - Micropropagation Take-Home Kit Included!
https://www.meetup.com/biocurious/events/306369576/

Saturday March 29th 1 -5pm
Bio-Art Workshop: Paint With Robots & Local Microbes
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bio-art-workshop-paint-with-robots-local-microbes-tickets-1257718603199

We are excited to offer such a variety of classes for teens and adults alike! We hope to see you in the lab soon!

Come join us for a half-day workshop using robots to make art with colorful microbes, each with a local story!

11/05/2024

Primer Design - Join us on Nov 11th for a working session to design some primers for the Real Vegan Cheese project on zoom. This is a great opportunity to learn more about primer design.

Problem - Our initial protein gels don’t show a band for our protein of interest. Could be the way we’re doing the fermentation in a shake flask rather than bioreactor (as we are doing for our insulin positive control). But our first troubleshooting should be to check whether the plasmid has actually been integrated in the genome in the first place, which we can do using PCR.

Solution - Design 2 sets of PCR primers that spans entire interaction site and in case the integration site is enact, and a second that a primer that is upstream and inside gene of interest; need a control to know the test is working.

Register now - https://www.meetup.com/biocurious/events/304156702/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

10/29/2024

Looking for a cost effective space to work on a new biotech project? How about a creative space for early stage research in biotech?

Join us November 12th for a BioCurious Open House! We will be having monthly Open Houses to let people come in to see the latest expansion at BioCurious. Learn about the history of our community lab and how we can help you.

We have space available for startups and entrepreneurs, so stop by to learn more and see the space. Learn more about what makes BioCurious different from a traditional startup incubator.

Tuesday Nov 12th 6pm - 7:30pm

Register now and spread the word!

**Looking for a cost effective space to work on a new biotech project? How about a creative space for early stage research in biotech?** **Join us November 12th for a BioC

08/07/2024

Teens Teaching Teens: Tissue Culturing for BioPrinting

We are excited to have another class in our Teens Teaching Teens series!

Saturday August 10th 1pm - 3pm

This class will cover the basics of BioPrinting and a hands on chance to learn plant tissue culture.

This class is for Teens only.

Register at:

Its time again for our Teen Teaching Teens! This is a chance for teens to learn from students who have been with BioCurious for a while. Teens Teaching Teens: Plant BioPri

05/20/2024

Join us in person this Sunday May 26th at 1pm for a talk on CRISPR Gene Editing - Rewriting endogenous human RNAs with trans-splicing with Cyrus Tau!

Register now!

Rewriting endogenous human RNAs with trans-splicing In this talk, I will discuss my recent work at the Hsu lab to enable versatile RNA editing in human cells with the deve

03/05/2022

Today we hosted our 100th COVID Chat! For 100 weeks every Saturday morning BioCurious and Counter Culture Labs have this 2 hour deep dive into the weeks top science headlines. This weeks notes and highlights below:

07/13/2021

There is still time to sign up for the Final Foods bioreactor primer class at BioCurious on July 17th and 18th. The hands-on class is two days and it costs $500.
Get more details and sign up for the class at:

This two days course is a hands-on primer on precision fermentation for everyone who wants to learn more about growing microorganisms in a lab-scale stirred tank bioreactor. The course is taught in a show-and-tell fashion by a qualified instructor.In the course an end-to-end process for an aerobic f...

07/06/2021

The Open Insulin community project was featured in this piece by Freethink. Last Sunday of the month is new volunteer onboarding for Open Insulin.

These biohackers plan to give away their instructions for how to make insulin for free.Subscribe here: https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe-insulinToday, ove...

07/06/2021

We are very excited to announce that our BioCurious member, Final Foods, is offering a bioreactor primer class at BioCurious on July 17th and 18th. The hands-on class is two days and it costs $500.

Get more details and sign up for the class at: https://finalfoods.com/products/bioreactor-primer

Watch the teaser of the previous class

We look forward to seeing you in person at BioCurious as we and members begin to offer more classes as we start to open to more in person events.

This two days course is a hands-on primer on precision fermentation for everyone who wants to learn more about growing microorganisms in a lab-scale stirred tank bioreactor. The course is taught in a show-and-tell fashion by a qualified instructor.In the course an end-to-end process for an aerobic f...

05/09/2021

Apply now to the Open Insulin Summer Internship 2.0 for High School and Undergraduate Students!!!

To help grow the project and give opportunities to those still at home, the team is launching a second summer internship program. This is a volunteer position with a non-profit, and those who complete the program will be able to use this experience and offer the experience as references for the future.
The internship is part of the Open Insulin project and will have a global focus. It will run for nine weeks, and interns are expected to work for approximately six hours a week and attend Open Insulin general meetings (Sundays at noon PST). The first week of the internship will be 6/13/2021 and the final week will be 8/8/2021.

Applications ongoing through May 15th. Decisions announced after June 1st.

Application form: https://forms.gle/T8gKceUTkD7LgTrn9

Please help us spread the word!

This is the application for the Summer 2021 Open Insulin Internship. This is an 9-week commitment that will require approx. 6 hours of work a week, operating remotely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, however you will have the opportunity for in person labwork if you are located near and selecte...

04/07/2021

Find out how you can join the Teens Teaching Teens Program (http://bit.ly/tttbiocurious) at BioCurious.

Teens Teaching Teens is a peer-to-peer biotechnology teaching community that seeks to empower the next generation of scientists by increasing the accessibility of science education. For the past few months, we at the TTT Student Board have been revitalizing the program to be student-run and student-led.

Signup at: https://www.meetup.com/BioCurious/events/277412195/

Teens Teaching Teens is always looking for new teen mentors. If you are interested in science and sharing that interest with other teens, please fill out our application as well as a class proposal. Please join us for this meeting on April 24th from 10 AM to 12 PM PST to learn more about the Teencher Program. Here is the link to the signup:

Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:00 AM: Join us for an introduction to the Teens Teaching Teens Program (http://bit.ly/tttbiocurious).Teens Teaching Teens is a peer-to-peer biotechnology teaching community that