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Welcome to the wiki of the Hackuarium association!


At Hackuarium, we want to bring biology (and biologists) to the world, and the real world back to biology. Our laboratory is an excuse to meet and discuss, build and develop ideas in a neutral, open, noncompetitive and not-for-profit environment.

This page was launched during our 1st Ever Hackuarium Wiki Sprint that took place on 7 December 2014. As you might notice quickly, almost everything here is a work-in-progress.

Scroll down and find out what this is all about!

Cliquez ici pour accéder à la version française de ce wiki.

Hackuarium Poster (Not-for-printing version!!! see Section 7.9 Visual Identity for full size printing version)


What is DIYbio?

DIYbio (Do-It-Yourself biology) is a movement that wants to free the practice of biological research and innovation from the institutional and industrial laboratories. Pursued both by amateurs and professional biologists, DIYbio is developing low-cost and low-tech solutions to problems identified by the community.

The movement is characterised by an extremely diverse set of practices and participants. Some call themselves 'biohackers', in reference to the hacker culture. The quick solution (even if unconventional) is what is meant by hacks...

DIYbio.org and DIYbio.eu are the portals of the international and european communities, respectively.

For more information, visit the Wikipedia page dedicated to DIYbio.

We actually believe more and more in doing DIT (Do-It-Together) Science, not just 'DIYbio,' as it reflects better the scope of the trans-disciplinary projects we do (often not only biology).


What is Hackuarium?

Hackuarium is a not-for-profit association aiming at democratizing science through public engagement.

Our laboratory in Renens (Switzerland) is open to anyone sharing the values of the association and who is dedicated to follow the DIYbio Europe ethical guidelines.

Our projects are initiated and carried out by scientists and non-scientists from a variety of backgrounds. They are passionate about tinkering with biology in particular, and technology in general. Some are engineers, architects, designers, IT and computer scientists or retired professionals, but others have no scientific education. They are mostly citizens interested in open and participatory research and innovation, outside the constraints of traditional institutions.

Hackuarium members want to investigate new ways of carrying out interdisciplinary research and innovation, by making their results accessible (low-cost), simple and easily reproducible (low-tech) and by promoting an open source philosophy.


Where are we?

Hackuarium is proudly using infrastructures provided by UniverCité, an unconventional innovation hub that opened in May 2014 in the IRL building in Renens. Our equipment is mostly upcycled material from institutions and industries from western Switzerland. We have documented our working environment as it has evolved.


Between December 2015 and January 2017, UniverCité regrouped our laboratory, a workshop and coworking space.

The original space was under construction work from January until June 2017, and we temporarily relocated on the first floor of the same building.

Since July 2017, we are back on the second floor of what is now called the "Ateliers de Renens" Chemin du Closed 5, 1020 Renens. We have a biohackerspace where (almost) everything goes, and a P1 facility for synthetic bio enthusiasts and more.
Check it out during one of our open nights, every Wednesday...

Renens is a hopping hub between Lausanne and Geneva. You can get to us by train from the airport in Geneva within an hour.


Who are we?

Our members reflect the diversity that is in and around Lausanne/Renens.

Check us out, and find out what makes Hackuarium a good mix.

Committee

The current committee is composed of the following people:


The Agenda of the last board meeting can be found here.
The Agenda of the next board meeting can be found here.

Members and Membership

Do you have a project in mind? Do you just want to support us?

Hackuarium operates on a membership basis, even though all events are open to anyone, including non-members.

The monthly membership fee is 20 CHF. It gives 24/7 access to the lab.

We would love to have you as a member! Just follow the instructions below.

Want to join?

  • We have a new form on the website, to fast-track joining the community, if you are keen, perhaps after a few #OpenHackuarium experiences (every Wednesday evening is open to the public).
  • Read some helpful info here.
  • Write an email to hello@hackuarium.ch and give us a short description of:
    • Yourself, your interests, your background
    • What you would like to learn or do at Hackuarium

Friends of Hackuarium

Spaces:

  • UniverCité
  • FabLab Onl'fait, Genève
  • La Paillasse, Paris
  • Paillasse Saône, Lyon
  • The BioFoundry, Sydney
  • Bioquisitive, Melbourne
  • Projects:

  • Octanis
  • Hybridoa
  • Apéro Sciences
  • AGiR!
  • Exodes Urbains
  • EchOpen

  • Events

    Our lab and space are open to the public. Please come and have a chat! And if you have any questions get in touch!

    OpenHackuarium: Every Wednesday, 19:00-22:00

    You want to organise an event at Hackuarium, or with the Hackuarium community? We have guidelines below.

    Upcoming Hackuarium Events


    2018

  • 2018.07.25 Wednesday 18:30-19:30: Board Meeting
  • 2018.06.27 Wednesday 18:30-19:30: Board Meeting
  • 2018.05.31 Thursday 18:30-12:30: Hackuarium will be paying a visit to FabLab Onl'fait and ImpactHub Geneva
  • 2018.05.23 Wednesday 19:30-22:00: Low-cost electronics, DIY, education and development - with Govinda Upadhyay, Founder & CEO of LEDsafari
  • 2018.05.23 Wednesday 18:30-19:30: Board Meeting
  • 2018.05.19 Saturday 14:30-18:30: Hack ton doudou workshop - Our friends from FabLab Onl'fait will teach us doudou hacking!
  • 2018.05.16 Wednesday 19:30-22:00: Swiss Engineers visit Hackuarium - Looking forward to an evening of Moss music? Join us!
  • 2018.05.02 Wednesday 19:30-22:00: 200 weeks of Hackuarium - We celebrate with a film night!
  • 2018.04.27 Friday 18:00-22:00: Visit of Hackuarium by students from CRI Paris

  • or follow our google calendar

    Other Upcoming Events at UniverCité


    Other Upcoming Events

  • 2018.03.08 Thursday 10:30-16:30: 20180308 Swilabs Meeting Zurich
  • Past Hackuarium Events


    You can find the complete list of our past events here.

    Event Organisation

    You want to organise an event? Go for it!

    Help us spread the love for tech, science, art and design.

    Here is a "Wiki express" so that everyone has the basics:

    • Send an email to board@hackuarium.ch — to make sure there is no conflict with another event
    • Someone on the board will check that the space is free
    • Build a wiki page for the event (see template below)
    • Our 'communications coordinator' will get in touch to ask for content and will make sure the announcements are made on all the social media outlets for Hackuarium!
    • In case you need a microgrant to cover the costs (up to 300.-), send an email to board@hackuarium.ch with a description (what, when, who) and a preliminary budget.
    • When all this is arrange, talk to the community, to spread the word —> us the slack #_uc-events channel
    • Is it a WORKSHOP? All the previous & make sure you get your logistics right! (and use the tag at the bottom of the page)
    • Is there a SIMILAR workshop ALREADY planned? If yes, negotiate dates and: Do you target the SAME people? If yes, negotiate. If not, no problem. It maybe interesting to see what others do.

    Template for an Hackuarium event

    First, create a line for your event on the main page under the [Main_Page#Events | Event section] using the following line:

     :<li>'''201X.XX.XX''' Wednesday 19:00-22:00: [[201XXXXX_TITLE | TITLE]] - SHORT DESCRIPTION
    

    Make sure the date, time and title are provided. Save the main page.
    The event will appear with a link. By clicking on this link you will create the event page.
    The following must be added to the event page (replace XXX by appropriate values):

    Header

     Open Hackuarium #XX - TITLE<br>
     Organisé par XXX<br>
    
     '''ENGLISH BELOW''' <br>
    
     * Langue principale cette semaine: '''Anglais'''<br>
     * Thème : '''TITLE'''
     * Date : '''Mercredi XX.XX.2018, 19h''', présentation et discussion à 19:30 et jusqu'à 21h
     * Lieu : Salle "XXX", UniverCité, 3ème étage
    
     - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>
    
     * Main language this week: '''English'''<br>
     * Theme: '''TITLE'''
     * Date: '''Wednesday XX.XX.2018, 19:00''', presentation and discussion start at 19:30
     * Location: Room "XXX", UniverCité, 3rd Floor
    

    Main Text

    Add a text description providing more details about the event.

    You include pictures in the same way as in any other page using the following code:

     [[File:XXX.png|500px]]
    

    Add the following tags at the bottom of the page:

     [[Category:Events]]
     [[Category:OpenHackuarium]]
    

    And eventually:

     [[Category:Workshop]]
    


    Projects

    Here, you will find the projects going on in the Hackuarium.

    Active Projects

    Archived Projects


    Practical Information

    Rules at Hackuarium

    We have very few rules at Hackuarium. The goal of the association is to provide freedom to its members, so they can explore beyond what is allowed elsewhere. However, we want members and anyone participating in our activities to feel comfortable and respected.

    This page describes the code of conduct for Hackuarium members.

    Use of P1 laboratory

    As of November 2017, Hackuarium is officially hosting its own P1 laboratory. While we still lack some essential infrastructure (-80 freezer, ventilated fume hood), we are working on it... More can be found out about use of this facility by following the next link... P1 Lab Activities

    Protocols

    All the protocols that we use at Hackuarium will be found here (work in progress). They are detailed and structured so that the main focus is on applications. The idea is to give crucial information on how to apply the most common techniques of the Biology toolbox. The protocols are structured as follow:

  • A scheme describing each
  • A brief description of the protocol and its use
  • A description of the different ways of carrying out the protocol. Ideally there should be a description of a commercial kit and a DIY kit.
  • A description of the safety issues and best practice
  • Information specific to Hackuarium and where to find the components, tools and reagents.
  • Instruments available

    This page describes all the instruments available at Hackuarium (work in progress..), their location and how to use them.

    Up-to-date list of instruments we still need

    This on-line document contains all the instruments, tools and consumables we are looking for. We have a standard donation contract (contrat de donation, in French) and if your organisation happen to discard a piece of equipment we are (or may be) looking for, contact us!

    Where we shop

    As a general rule, we do not buy anything. We try to recycle, upcycle, bicycle, epicycle anything we can, or ask around if anyone can provide supplies for free.

    In some cases it does not work out, and so these are the place where we can find what we need.

    In any case, Please contact Luc Henry if you need to order anything in the name of Hackuarium.

    Labware and Reagents

    Consumables and some chemicals can be purchased from Huber Lab.
    More chemicals can be obtained from Carl Roth.
    If necessary, other chemicals and biochemicals can be obtained from Sigma Aldrich.
    Molecular biology tools can be purchased from Qiagen.

    Swiss-based Smiples has a very extensive listing of second hand laboratory and technical items. These can be bought from their online shop or from Ricardo.
    But most laboratory hardware can be obtained from our network of friends and partners. Get in touch with Luc Henry if you need anything specific and we'll do our best to find it.

    Organic

    Algae, protozoa, acuatic life and educational kits: | Sciento
    Bacteria, global biosource center (Hackuarium has a customer account, shop through our Biosecurity manager): | ATCC

    Hardware

    Options for electronic parts:

    How to built a new project page on our Wiki

    If you want to start or edit a project page on Hackuarium's wiki, please follow these instructions.

    ReadingList

    The DIY biology / Biohacking movement

  • Biohackers. The politics of open science by Alessandro Delfanti (2013) London: Pluto Press.
    A review by Luc Henry
  • DIY-Bio – economic, epistemological and ethical implications and ambivalences by Jozef Keulartz and Henk van den Belt (2016) Life Sciences, Society and Policy
  • Biohacking everything you need to know about diy biology, (Accessed 05.2016)
  • Genspace gets funding, PRNewswire, (Accessed 05.2016)
  • Learn from DIY biologists, Todd Kuiken, Nature, (Accessed 05.2016)

    And a much more complete list by Massimiliano Simons, KU Leuven:

  • The Rebirth of DIYbio by Jef Akst, The Scientist, March 2013
  • Out of the lab and onto the streets by Kat Austen, New Scientist, June 2013
  • DIYbio - Alternative Career Path for Biologists? by Beth Baker, BioScience (2015) 65 (1): 112
  • From synthetic biology to biohacking: are we prepared? by Gaymon Bennett, Nils Gilman, Anthony Stavrianakis & Paul Rabinow, Nature Biotechnology 27, 1109 - 1111 (2009)
  • Office as Biosecurity Gatekeeper: Fosering Responsible Science and Building Public Trust in DIY Science by Brian J. Gorman, J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 423 (2011)
  • Biolab-on-Wheels: finding a space for a DIY bio lab in Toronto by Roberta Buiani, Journal of Mobile Media, February 2015
  • Charisius, Hanno & Friebe, Richard & Karberg, Sascha - Biohacking: Gentechnik aus der Garage
  • Curry, Helen Anne - From garden biotech to garage biotech: amateur experimental biology in historical perspective
  • Davies, Sarah R. & Karin Tybjerg & Louise Whiteley & Thomas Söderqvist - Co-curation as hacking: biohackers in Copenhagen's Medical Museion
  • Delfanti, Alessandro - Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science
  • Delfanti, Alessandro - Tweaking genes in your garage: biohacking between activism and entrepreneurship
  • Delfanti, Alessandro - Is Do-it-Yourself Biology Being Co-opted by Institutions?
  • Delfanti, Alessandro - Distributed biotechnology
  • Delfanti, Alessandro - Hacking genomes. The ethics of open and rebel biology
  • Delgado, Ana - DIYbio: Making things and making futures
  • Editorial - Empowering citizen scientists
  • Eggleson, Kathleen - Transatlantic Divergences in Citizen Science Ethics - Comparative Analysis of the DIYbio Code of Ethics Drafts of 2011
  • Gewin, Virginia - Independent streak
  • Golinelli, Stefano & Guido Ruivenkamp - Do-it-yourself biology: Action research within the life sciences
  • Grushkin, D., Kuiken, T., Millet, P - Seven Myths & Realities about Do-It-Yourself Biology
  • Grushkin, Daniel - Am I a biohazard?
  • Holloway, Dustin - Regulating Amateurs
  • Jefferson, Chaterine - Governing Amateur Biology: Extending Respnonsible Research and Innovation in Synthetic Biology to New Actors
  • Kean, Sam - A Lab of Their Own
  • Kelty, Christopher - Outlaw, hackers, victorian amateurs: diagnosing publich participation in the life sciences today
  • Kera, Denisa - Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia: connecting science and community with open data, kits and protocols
  • Kera, Denisa - Innovation regimes based on collaborative and global tinkering: Synthetic biology and nanotechnology in the hackerspaces
  • Kuiken, Todd - DIYbio: Low Risk, High Potential
  • Kuiken, Todd - Learn from Do-It-Yourself Biologists
  • Kuznetsov, Stacey - Expanding Our Visions of Citizen Science
  • Kuznetsov, Stacey & Alex Taylor & Tim Regan & Nicolas Villar & Eric Paulos - At the seams: DIYbio and opportunities for HCI
  • Kuznetsov, Stacey & Carrie Doonan & Nathan Wilson & Swarna Mohan & Scott E. Hudson & Eric Paulson - DIYbio Things: Open Source Biology Tools as Platforms fo rHybrid Knowledge Production and Scientific Participation
  • Landrain, Thomas & Meyer, Morgan & Perez, Ariel Martin & Sussan, Remi - Do-it-yourself biology: challenges and promises for an open science and technology movement
  • Lisa Z. Scheifele & Thomas Burkett - The First Three Years of a Community Lab: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward
  • McKenna, Phil - Rise of the garage genome hackers
  • Meyer, Morgan - Build your own lab
  • Meyer, Morgan - Domesticating and democratizing science: a geography of do-it-yourself biology
  • Meyer, Morgan - Hacking Life? The Politics and Poetics of DIY Biology
  • Meyer, Morgan - Bricoler, domestiquer et contourner la science
  • Nascimento, Susana & Angela Guimaraes Pereira & Alessia Ghezzi - From Citizen Science to Do It Yourself Science
  • NSABB - Strategies to Educate Amateur Biologists and Scientists in Non-life Science Disciplines About Dual use Research in the Life Science
  • Schmidt, Markus - Diffusion of synthetic biology
  • Scudellari, Megan - Biology Hacklabs
  • Seyfried, Günter & Pei, Lei & Schmidt, Markus - European do-it-yourself (DIY) biology: Beyond the hope, hype and horror
  • Sholette, Gregory - Disciplining the avant-garde: The United States versus the Critical Art Ensemble
  • Sipra Bihani & Michael Hartman & Florian Sobiegalla & Amanda rosenberg - Comparing network strutures of commercial and non-commercial biohacking online-communities
  • Söderberg, Johan & Delfanti, Alessandro - Hacking Hacked! The Life Cycles of Digital Innovation
  • Söderberg, Johan & Delfanti, Alessandro - Repurposing the hacker. Three temporalities of recuperation
  • Tocchetti, Sara - DIYbiologists as 'Makers' of Personal Biologies
  • Tocchetti, Sara - What kind of work we are doing now and what kind of work we want to do
  • Tocchetti, Sara & Sara Angeli Aguiton - Is an FBI Agent an DIY Biologist Like Any Oter? A Cultural Analysis of a Biosecurity Risk
  • Trojok, Rüdiger - Biohacking: Gentechnologie für Alle
  • van Boheemen, Pieter & Huib de Vriend - Do-it-yourself biology: Een verkenning van ontwikkelingen in Nederland
  • Wohlsen, Marcus - Biopunk: Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages

    Open Hardware

  • Open-hardware, pioneers push for low-cost lab kit by Elizabeth Gibney, Nature, (Accessed 05.2016)
  • Appropedia a source of DIY instruments builds, Dr. Joshua Pearce, (Accessed 05.2016)
  • The PCB milling machine, Open Hardware Repository, (Accessed 05.2016)
    More
  • http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/sensortape-3d-aware-dense-sensor-network-on-a-tape/, Sensory network on a roll of tape, Filip Visnjic, (Accessed 05.2016)
  • RedEye Oxygen Sensing Patches, Ocean Optics, (Accessed 05.2016)

    Art

  • Rainbow wasp nests, Mattia Menchetti, (Accessed 05.2016)
  • Dirty beats making music with bacteria, Interspecifics(Accessed 05.2016)
    More1, More2, More3

    Ideas/Concepts/Science

  • The new tree of life TED (Accessed 05.2016)
  • Rethinking work, Yann Heurtaux, (Accessed 05.2016)
  • That plastic bottle cutter, Pavel & Ian, (Accessed 05.2016)

    Open Source

  • Results held hostage, Francesco Mondada, (Accessed 05.2016)

    Visual Identity

    Media and Press

    Please check our Press kit out. It includes a prototype Press review of most of our media appearances over the years.

    EU Paperwork

    We now have an identification number aka Participant Identification Code (PIC) from the European Participant Portal for any Horizon 2020 application. The Hackuarium PIC number is 907732306. It can be verified on the official search engine.

    Wanted

    Do you want to contribute to making Hackuarium a diverse and lively community? Check out our wanted lists:

  • Skills
  • Ideas
  • Equipment
  • Consumables