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Community Announcements

Counter Culture Labs is a new community lab for the East Bay, focused on DIY biology and citizen science. It’s a place to explore, learn, work on fun projects, and tinker with biology and other sciences, and it’s open to biotech professionals, scientists, and citizen scientists of all stripes. Come be part of our community of creative thinkers, hackers, and mad scientists! We are currently organizing ourselves, looking for a space to build our lab, and running meetups. Planned meetup topics include Instructables build nights, an ongoing bioinformatics series, the Science of Taste, and DIY testing of water for bacterial contamination. More info at http://www.counterculturelabs.org/ and http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs.

We are excited to announce Build My Lab, a DIY lab equipment design competition hosted by Tekla Labs and Instructables. Tekla Labs is a UC Berkeley–based nonprofit organization striving to empower scientists worldwide by providing online instructions for building laboratory equipment from locally available materials. Submit your designs for laboratory equipment from September 2nd to December 16th for your chance to win one of our fantastic prizes including a 3D printer, dremels, and more. To find out more and keep up to date on all things ...