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 hood or chemicals, please take a couple of hours to prepare beforehand:

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.

Microscope

das saubere Mikroskop

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")

The laminar hood

microliter pipettes

Micropipetting

School_Pipetting 101_Common Errors

vocabulary

Laboratory equipment

Lab Equipment Quiz

pH

Medium

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.