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- Synthetic Biology, Biohacking & Cheese - Real Vegan Cheese Science callLink visible for attendees
The 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!
- CCL Working Meeting and Drop-In [ONLINE]Link visible for attendees
Come 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!
- Micromitigation Working GroupLink visible for attendees
The Air Quality Meetup will concern MicroMitigation, a proposal to deploy existing adsorption technology for air pollution mitigation using commodity granulated activated carbon, at 'micro-hotspots' in numerous locations in the built environment. This citizen science initiative into a cheap, universally accessible, approach to air quality enforcement challenges is intended for disadvantaged communities in California and hopefully beyond.
Want to support youth education and the next generation of citizen scientists? Make a donation to fund our educational programs and community projects!
- Weekly Pandemic ChatLink visible for attendees
This is a weekly zoom call hosted by the Counter Culture Labs and BioCurious communities, for anyone interested in reviewing the week's science and news on COVID-19. Plus guest stars monkeypox, Ebola, RSV and influenza. We welcome your questions and are happy to discuss any articles or news you may have found.
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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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