Hello guys,
I’m a hobby biologist from Austria.
As its name says, DIY-Spartan-Biotech is about doing biology with very little. For english speakers it may not be totally clear… Mr Makeshift may sound better for natives. In German a “spartan chandelier” is just a lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. ~Do as much as you can with the little resources you have.
I was born a biologist, later I recognized also Chemistry and Physics are very interesting. Until recently, say around 2011, biology ment for me to classify animal and plants and discover new stuff. And how to make e.g. food production more efficient. My former biology teacher told us, the 19th century was the century of physics, the 20th century that of chemistry, and this one is about biology. I thought he exaggerated a bit.
But I came across DIY Bio and I was very impressed what you can do with very little: You can even engineer the genes of bacteria (and plants and mammals, of course, too) in your kitchen (if this is legal in your contry). For that purpose, I asked a professor of mine whether I could use our universitie’s biology lab for some amazing stuff. He agreed, and thus, so far I’ve done a sucessful transformation of E.Coli.
Some of my goals include:
Making a plant that glows in the dark, produce biodiesel with bacteria (as seen on the web with “pMicrodiesel”), …. And most important of all: learn new stuff and have fun!!
Martina Ai said:
Hi, ich bin zufällig über deinen Blog gestolpert und find’s total cool was du da so machst! Ich mach auf der JKU in Linz Biochemie und wollte nachfragen, auf welcher Uni du leicht bist? Ist jedenfalls eine tolle Sache!
Lg martina
diyspartanbiotech said:
Hallo Martina.
In Wels, FH.
In Sachen genetic Engineering war das Highlight ja erst die Leuchtcolis, hoffentlich bald Leuchtpflanzen in DIY-Kooperation mit dem AEC Linz…
Bald läuft die Kickstarterkampagne an ( vermutlich 2ter April), dann bekomme ich die synthetische DNA, und es wird endlich was mit den Leuchtpflanzen 🙂
lg