What we’re about
Become a member of the first community biology lab in the East Bay. A place to explore, learn, work on fun projects and tinker with biology. Open to biotech professionals, hobbyists, and citizen scientists. No bio background needed! Be part of our community of creative thinkers, hackers and mad scientists!
Become a member! https://www.counterculturelabs.org/join
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If you have any questions you can reach us by filling out our contact form
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Featured event
Wet-Lab Plant Tissue Culture Workshop - Micropropagation Take-Home Kit Included!
Welcome to the Plant Tissue Culture Micropropagation Workshop! Join us at Counter Culture Labs (4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609) for hands-on experience in plant micropropagation. In this class, you’ll learn about the four stages of micropropagation (sterile technique and aseptic culture, multiplication, in vitro rooting, and acclimatization) and begin a culture for your own Satin Pothos houseplant.
You’ll also learn how to source and replicate tissue culture protocols in the case that you’d like to pursue plant micropropagation as a hobby. Your take-home kit includes a rooted pothos transplant and two tissue culture plants created during the workshop!
The workshop fee is $250. This covers instruction, the materials used in class, as well as your take-home kit! Venmo @ccl-plantbio. Last four digits phone # confirmation: 6986. Message the organizer if you need an alternate payment method.
Required lab attire for safety: Long pants and closed-toed shoes.
Unable to attend? Interested in other classes like plant genetic engineering, microbial engineering, bioluminescent dinoflagellates? Join our mailing list to hear about upcoming workshops!
About the Instructor
Anthony Neil Tan is an AgTech professional [UC Berkeley Bioengineering]. He is currently an independent research scientist and his projects center on optimizing the cultivation of high-value plants via various horticultural methods and plant genetic engineering. His portfolio ranges from designing a plant growth chamber that won a national NASA contest to developing new plant genetic engineering tools at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute.
No refunds can be issued.
Upcoming events
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•OnlineSynthetic Biology, Biohacking & Cheese - Real Vegan Cheese Science call
OnlineThe Real Vegan Cheese (https://realvegancheese.org/) project is an award-winning collaboration between Counter Culture Labs and our sister lab BioCurious (http://www.biocurious.org/) in Sunnyvale, to make real cheese without using any animals!
Real Vegan Cheese is a grassroots, non-profit research project working to produce real cheese using cellular agriculture. We add the genes for cheese proteins to yeast and other microflora, and turn them into little protein factories, then make real cheese by adding plant-based fats and sugars. Real Vegan Cheese is not a cheese substitute -- the cheesemaking process is just like using cow or goat milk! We are dedicated to Open Science and making sure the results of our research are available to the global community to enable a sustainable animal-free dairy industry.
We alternate Admin and Science meetups every other week. This week will be a Science meeting, so expect to talk about cheese proteins, how Lactobacilli create that cheesy flavor, physicochemical properties of different mammalian milks, evolutionary genomics of the casein gene cluster in Narwhal, and the imaginary phylogeny of unicorns! Want to join our Admin meetings as well? Come join us next week...
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Can't attend but still want to get in touch? You can reach us via our contact form!
Want to support youth education and the next generation of citizen scientists? Make a donation to fund our educational programs and community projects!
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•OnlineCCL Working Meeting and Drop-In [ONLINE]
OnlineCome join us to help build YOUR lab. CCL is a 100% unpaid-volunteer-after-hours-run labor of love. There is no "staff" - just a bunch of people figuring out together what needs to get done. Help pitch in to build something amazing together!
Drop in to our weekly online meeting to meet us and talk about your project idea! We also spend this time as volunteers to help keep the lab running. RSVP on Meetup for Zoom link.
Can't attend but still want to get in touch? You can reach us via our contact form!
Want to support youth education and the next generation of citizen scientists? Make a donation to fund our educational programs and community projects!
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•OnlinePlant Bio Working Meeting & Drop-In Hour!
OnlineJoin us in-person or online for the Pant Bio weekly meeting and drop-in hours. (If you want to attend in-person then please contact event organizers ahead of time.)
Pant Bio is a dedicated group of scientists, designers, horticulturalists, and artists with an honest and deep appreciation for the plant kingdom.
Plants are some of the most elegant machines nature provides us. Their systems are capable of nearly infinite growth and the manufacturing of countless useful products. And they look great while doing it!
If there's something you want to learn related to plants, we will do our best to help you learn it.
We are always planning our next workshop, and something is always growing here.
Have a plant related biohacking project you've been eager to work on? Stop on by and see if we can help.
All are welcome to participate in person or online! Can't attend but still want to get in touch? You can reach us via our contact form!
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