Friday Night Science in the lab - Project Brainstorming Jam Session

Hang out in the lab, with Friday Night Science! Check out what our current researchers are working on, meet other sci-curious folks, and maybe jump into doing some experiments yourself.

This week, we're holding a Project Brainstorming Jam Session at 7pm. You can pitch wild ideas💡 or polished proposals📝 for a bio project and get super helpful ideas, advice, and potentially reagents🦠/gear🔬/help from your fellow (future) researchers. But that's not all, the lab's open from at least 5pm to 9pm, we can give you a tour and we will likely have some ongoing labwork you could try your hand at. For example, the Real Vegan Cheese project* is rumored to be doing some genotyping PCRs 🧬🥵🥶 and taking a timepoint from their latest cheese 🧀 protein fermentation 🍶🦠 that evening... Feel free to come late, leave early, or stay for the whole night.

For the Project Brainstorming Jam Session, this week we'll prioritize time for students planning science fair projects but we should have enough time for others to pitch their projects. If you want to talk about your project, you don't need to prepare anything, it's totally fine to just say what you're thinking about doing. You can draw diagrams on the whiteboard, and we also have a projector if you want to present figures. Please limit any background presentation to a few minutes, then we'll have discussion, and there's plenty of time after the group discussion to follow up with anyone. Great chance to network with future collaborators!

BioCurious should be accessible to all. We have bathrooms inside as well as a kitchen if you need it. Parking is free. We are at 3108 Patrick Henry Drive in Santa Clara CA, we've got a sign at the road and our logo painted on the front of our office space. When you arrive, just walk on in the door and through the front lobby, and take any open desk/chair in that front classroom/office area.

*The Real Vegan Cheese project website is out of date, we're too busy in the lab to update it - help? 😁

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Friday Night Science is a casual friendly event hosted by BioCurious, and is open to experienced bio-engineers as well total newbies who just want to learn more about biology and community labs. BioCurious is an all-volunteer nonprofit that's been running a shared BSL1 community labspace for about 15 years. We are home to a variety of independent researchers, startups, established small businesses, students, and enthusiasts, and we're eager to support each other's investigations. Past and present community projects have included the CRISPR class, Real Vegan Cheese, the Cuttlefish project, Bioprinting, and many others.