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Colony count App

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ColonyCount beta build 1 has now been released.
You can try it out by download it from your Android phone (requires Android 2.1 – update 1 or later) here http://www.colonycount.org/

There are still known bugs and it has only been tested on a HTC legend – so expect a few hiccups.

Any feedback is appreciated on feedback@ColonyCount.org – but as my time is limited you should not expect any reply.

A little information about the project:

ColonyCount is a small phone app that can assist when counting colonies on agar plates. Counting is done by taking a picture, tapping screen to place tags on colonies (cfu) and finally type in input properties needed to perform various calculations on the data. Current version supports calculation of sample concentration and ration of different colony types. Images can be saved in a project structure that enables calculations across multiple plates and sharing of project data and results by mail.

The app will be released on Android Market in a version that is free, full-featured and ad-free – but users will have the option to purchase a version to support further development.

Feel free to forward this mail to anyone that might find this interesting ..

Regards
Mogens Hvidtfeldt,

BiologiGaragen Lab1.0

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We got ourself some space!

If you are interest in seeing where we have our Lab1.0 in Labitat you can see this proposal video.

But feel free to drop by @ Labitat (H.C. Ørstedsvej 5, Kælderen, Frederiksberg) and check it out in real life. We have small meeting every Thursday around 20, but  please come early and start during some DIYBio!

Learn the Syntax of Life! 2nd lecture

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BiologiGaragen has just begun a new course that is FREE to attend.

And we will continue the succes of the first lecture by having a second lecture!

Course name: Learn the Syntax of Life!

Gold: Learn microbiology and gain insight knowledge of life. After completing the course you should be able to take the next course: Jailbreake Life!

Minded: Newbies in the field of biology and chemistry (biochemistry).

When: Lecture starts @ 20:05 very Thursday

- but feel free to show up an hour earlier and get to know the place and people

Where: @Labitat – H. C. Ørsteds Vej 5, 1879 Frederiksberg C

Teacher: Lasse Nørfeldt and everyone who wants to share their knowledge (sharing is caring) .

This lecture will be about the bricks that makes a cell: proteins, fat and carbohydrates. There will be some hands on and organoleptic learning. And you will discover what this machine simulate


Why? This will make it SO MUCH easier to understand why organisms behave as they do and how we can control them.
(there will always be a Why? for each lecture – else there is no point of learning it (don’t believe in the desert scenario [If you are in the desert and need bl.a. bl.a.]))

Interested? Then show up!

After each lecture there will be working on our DIY Fumehood and incubator projects that should allow us to make some cool hands-on experiments. We will also try to make some cool DIY-Bio tools of some LEGO NXT MINDSTORMS.

Learn the Syntax of Life!

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This is perhaps a bite late to post this, but there have been a lot happening duiring the last past days.

BiologiGaragen is begning a new course that is FREE to attend.

Course name: Learn the Syntax of Life!
Gold: Learn microbiology and gain insight knowledge of life. After completing the course you should be able to take the next course: Jailbreake Life!
Minded: Newbies in the field of chemistry and biology (biochemistry).
When: first lecture starts @ 20:05 this Thursday (3/2-2011)

Where: @Labitat – H. C. Ørsteds Vej 5, 1879 Frederiksberg C

Teacher: Lasse Nørfeldt and everyone who wants to share their knowledge (sharing is caring) .

First lecture will be the building blocks of life and it will a bite about the primary elements that makes life. From that we will move to carbohydrates, amino acids and fat.
Why? These blocks will allow us to understand the foundation that makes a cell and thereby understand why it behaves as it does sometimes.
(there will always be a Why? for each lecture – else there is no point of learning it (don’t believe in the desert scenario [If you are in the desert and need bl.a. bl.a.]))

Interested? Then show up!

After each lecture there will be working on our DIY Fumehood project that should allow us to make some cool hands-on experiments.

Materials for the first lecture can be fund here: http://labitat.danskforum.net/t14-microbiology-course-learn-the-syntax-of-life

DIY-Bio at the iGEM conference.

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Interesting DIY-bio approaches to synthetic biology presented at this years iGEM conference. (International Genetically Engineered Machine competition 2010 ).

Simple DIY lab equipment was presented by ArtScienceBangalore an Indian art school presented how to construct a simple fume hood and incubator.
A simple measurement technique where the Petri dish is incubated on an automated scanner, made by Duke University won the best experimental measurement price.

Baltimore suggested transforming e-coli with the taq-polymerase genes, and use the lysate for PCR reactions, a brilliant idea for cheap PCR.
Slovenia won the grand price by construction of a DNA assembly line by creating an assembly line with catalytic enzymes linked to the DNA.

Denmark was represented by two teams both winning a gold medal, the DTU and SDU team. SDU further shared the special price for Safety Commendation with VT-ENSIMAG Biosecurity.
The conference took place 6-8th Nov. at MIT Cambridge, Mass, USA.