Biology Club - Low-cost spectrophotometers and how to use them in your projects

Hosted by: Clarisse
Speakers: Chinna Devarapu and Richard Hopper

Event: Spectrophotometers are very important in biology because they determine the transmission of different wavelengths of light through samples to detect colour changes, monitor cell growth, calculate DNA and protein concentration and many other useful measurements. Several low-cost spectrophotometers are available in the market and in the maker community. During this event, we will discuss these off-the-shelf options as well as some cool maker-friendly DIY builds. In particular, we will show how a simple spectrophotometer can be realised by hacking a fitness tracker. Don't worry if you didn't come across spectrophotometers so far. We will show you how you might be using them already in your daily life.

Biology Club: The Biology Club brings together scientists, engineers, technologists, entrepreneurs, teachers, artists and others interested in engineering with biology at Makespace.
The Club has talks, social sessions and hands-on practicals or skill-sharing sessions (yes -we have even found some biology and making you can do at home!). If you want to work on biology-related projects, Biomakespace is the section of Makespace for that. It contains experimental biology and fabrication tools focused on scientific
applications.

This is an online event. Please find the link to join, below.

You can join the Biology Club email group at http://biology-club.makespace.org