Abstract

You are invited to join Biomaker participants and finalists for a virtual showcase of this year’s projects.

Biomaker Challenge is a programme challenging interdisciplinary teams to build low-cost sensors and instruments for biology. The Challenge provides opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary team to identify and solve lab or field challenges, learn to use code-free programming for hardware and user interface development, develop biological applications, scientific instruments and real-world tools, or develop new ideas.

Hear from the Biomaker Challenge 2020 finalists and find out more about their low-cost, open-source biological hardware projects.

• 17:00 Welcome and Introduction
• 17:10 Overview of 2020 projects
• 17:30 Finalist Presentations and Demonstrations
• 18:10 Q&A
• 18:30 Finish

The four 2020/21 Finalists are:

• Pheno3D: A low-cost multi-purpose 3D digital photography phenotyping station.

• Automated plant growth chamber: An automated plant growth chamber to grow and monitor Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings for plant research.

• Monitoring Stress In Plants: The development of a low-cost CEA chamber with built-in stress monitoring systems.

• Microfluidic Device Fabrication using Laser Ablation: Direct fabrication of microfluidic geometries at 10 microns without a photomask.

Joining details and register: https://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Synthetic-Biology-Meetup/events/280355019/

For more information please contact coordinator@synbio.cam.ac.uk