GMU:DIY BioLab

Marienstraße 7b, Room 202, 99423 Weimar

Contact: Mindaugas Gapševičius, mindaugas.gapsevicius [at] uni-weimar.de
Tutor: Antje Danz

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) Manual

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• 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

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

See available /chemicals in the lab.

Current Organisms

• Physarum Polycephalum
• Euglena
• Amoeba proteus
• Armillaria gallica
• Hydra_Vulgaris
• Haematococcus pluvialis

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.

Protocols

• Euglena
• Amoeba
• Physarum Polycephalum
• Disctyostelium

Further Information

Research projects

• PhyChip
• Biogames

Current Courses and Activities around Biolab

• Experimental Microbiology
• Bioelectronics, aesthetics and other interesting things
• Genes&Clones

Latest Courses

• Experimental Microbiology
• BioArt
• Bioart_Introduction
• BioGames

Latest workshops

• MediaArt and Biotechnology
• Workshop on BioGames
• BioMedia Science 2 Arts- Molecular Biology entering the public space

Links

• Diysect Webseries about BioArt

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