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What we’re about
Come help us build a new community lab for the East Bay, focused on citizen science. A place to explore, learn, work on fun projects, tinker with biology and other sciences. Open to biotech professionals, scientists, and citizen scientists of all stripes. Be part of our community of creative thinkers, hackers and mad scientists!
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Wet-lab Mentorship — Appointment Only (BOOKED)Counter Culture Labs, at the Omni Commons, Oakland, CA
Wet-lab mentorship session with Counter Culture Labs Instructor Anthony Neil Tan. Tutoring is customized to students' needs. To book a session, please email anthonyneil.tan@berkeley.edu
Anthony's background is in cell culture and synthetic biology. The following techniques he teaches include, but are not limited to:
- Cell culture (microbial, mammalian, plant) and scale-up (plates, flasks, bioreactors)
- Genetic engineering, molecular cloning, plasmid design, transfection
- Microscopy, qPCR, primer design, DNA/RNA sequencing, cell assays, gel electrophoresis, etc.
He is currently an independent scientist and spends his time teaching at community labs and doing research at the USDA ARS Plant Gene Expression Center. Previously, he developed plant genetic engineering tools at the Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute, which uses molecular biology to transform biomass into biofuels.
He has also worked in the cell-based meat industry, focusing on bioprocess development to maximize porcine cell yield. As a 2018 Caltech research fellow, he investigated the presence of harmful bacteria in environmental samples.