GMU:DIY BioLab

Opening hours

Contact: Mindaugas Gapševičius, Maria Degand --> biolab[@]medien.uni-weimar.de <--

Short introduction to our DIY Bio-Lab

Welcome to our DIY Bio-Lab at Bauhaus University Weimar

Before you start using our microscopes, the laminar flow bench or chemicals I ask you kindly to take two hours to prepare beforehand.

In these two hours, please

read the manuals for the microscopes and understand how to use them
watch two videos and learn how to use microliter pipettes
get some basic vocabulary about lab- equipment
read some recipes for the medium your organism needs
and read the basic papers about your organism, before you start growing it.

→ 1. The manuals for the lab:

das saubere Mikroskop [1]

english:

The Bresser Microscope (the big one)
these kind of pictures are possible with the Bresser microscope. Full rez SomeniceBacteria.JPG
another one of common mold spore heads. Full rez Moldondictyostelium.JPG

The Masterflex microscope ("the small one") [2]

The laminar flow bench [3]

→ 2. The videos about the microliter pipettes:

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→ 3. We work mostly in English in the DIY Biolab. Please make sure to know your vocabulary!

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→ 4. + 5. What kind of medium you want to prepare and what your organism needs you have to find out yourself.

Current Organisms

We have currently living Euglena, Physarum polycephalum and Dictyostelium discoideum.

If you want to work with one of these organisms, please present a short concept to GMU Staff during opening hours.

If you want to work with another organism please contact us.

Animal Store in Weimar

This store has living Artemia, Daphnia, Nematocera (Chironomus & Chaoborus) and Enchytraeen ( Enchytraeus albidus). They sell them in small bags and it costs less than a coffee. Each Tuesday they will have a new delivery of these fresh organisms. It is possible for them to get other 'fish food' as well.