BioHack Academy 5: a biohacking course

We are a group of DIY Biologists who wants to promote Biology in Hong Kong. Our aims are to build a community laboratory where anyone can come and learn about Biology and work on their experiments. We also want to breach the gap between the world of formal research and the community through workshops and public talks. Bug hunt Hong Kong is our citizen science project this year.Our website:https://www.DIYBIOHK.orgMeetup group:http://www.meetup.com/DIYBIOHK/(Join our regular meeting on every Thursday evening!)Bug Hunt Hong Kong facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/BugHuntHK/

DIYBIO Hong Kong

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Are you interested in biotechnology, but you don’t have a background in either biology or technology? Do you like to make things yourself and tinker with technology? Interested in DIYBio but don’t know where to start? Or do you consider yourself creative and innovative and wanna work with some biomaterial? Come and join the fifth BioHack Academy! 
Engineers have turned biology into a design discipline and it’s now upon us to shape it’s applications. After completing the fifth BioHack Academy you will be able to grow your own fuel, food, filaments, pharmaceuticals, fragrances, fungi and much more funky bio stuff at home. We will teach you how to join the bio revolution and how build your own lab equipment using a Fablab, Maker/Hackspace or other shared machine shop. 
The fifth BioHack Academy consists of 10 classes. We will explain you how to construct the necessary machines, such as incubators, microscopes and centrifuges, to run your own biolab. Along the way you will learn how to operate them and put them to use in your own project. Whether that’s a new type of bio ink, bio polymer, bio fuel or other kind of biohack is entirely up to you. 
Moreover, the BioHack Academy is a truly international course. In the past editions, partner labs from the US, Latin America, Asia, Australia and Europe have followed the course simultaneously via remote video. We expect new partners to join this course as well, and grant you to opportunity to collaborate with biohackers from all over the world! 
 
Skills you will learn:
<UL>
<LI>Molecular biology </LI>
<LI>Microbiology </LI>
<LI>Biodesign and bioarts </LI>
<LI>Chemical and biological safety </LI>
<LI>Biotechnological reactor design </LI>
<LI>Spectral analytics </LI>
<LI>Bioinformatics </LI>
<LI>2D computer aided design </LI>
<LI>3D drawing and parametric design </LI>
<LI>3D printing </LI>
</UL>
 
Date: 30 January - 3 April 2018
 
Location: MakerBay, 16 Sze Shan Street, C1 Yau Tong Industrial Building Block 2 Yau Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
 
Number of participants: 10
 
Age: 10+
 
Registration dealine: 1 January 2018
 
Timing
The weekly course meetup and practicals take place on Saturday during the day and the online lectures on Tuesday evenings.
 
Structure of the academy
The academy is build up of 10 classes where every week consists of lectures, practicals and building a specific device. 
The schedule is tentative.
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<TD STYLE="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px 5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; word-break: normal;">P2P reviewing Work on your own project</TD>
<TD STYLE="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 10px 5px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; word-break: normal;">PyMol Iodine Clock Reaction</TD>
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Finalising the academy
You will receive a BioHack Academy certificate. And your online lab journal on GitHub page will be open to the public to share the results with the Open Source biotech community at large. 
 
Tuition fee
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<LI>Early Bird (register before 31 Oct 17:00): HK$10,000</LI>
<LI>Regular: HK$12,000</LI>
</UL>
The tuition fee includes weekly course meetup and practicals sessions, access to DIYBIO community lab and MakerBay facilities, access to BHA lab equipment source files and tuition materials. But material cost for building the devices is not included.
 
Material costs
The material cost depend on which laboratory equipment you would like to build and what materials you will use. Expected material cost is about HK$4000 (when you build all equipment), but you can always source a more economic materials from online store like taobao etc.
 
Payment
You can register via Eventbrite. The tuition fee is non-refundable.
 
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