May 12, 2017
We are delighted to run a FENS workshop/symposium on Open Labware at the upcoming FENS 2018 conference in Berlin (July 2018).
3D print your own lab equipment: Open Hardware, Education and Global Research Capacity building
We will present an overview of today’s possibilities to cheaply and efficiently build state-of-the-art research equipment using only 3D printed parts, microcontrollers and off-the-shelf electronic sensors and actuators. Moreover, we will present use cases of these types of developments in research, education and global capacity building, with examples taken from the Western and Central Europe as well as sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
Greg Gage – co-founder of Backyard Brains and TED senior fellow.
Ivana Gadjanski – University of Belgrade, TED Fellow and co-founder of Pubsonic
Lucia Prieto Godino – University of Lausanne / The Crick Institute, London and co-founder of TReND in Africa
Andre Maia Chagas – University of Tuebingen, TReND in Africa and founder of OpeNeuroscience.com
(Chair: Tom Baden)
Apr 19, 2017
Nature Technology Editor Jeffrey Perkel picked up on our recent bioRxiv upload describing how to build our “100 Euro lab” and wrote this nice blog about it!
Apr 10, 2017
Chris’ paper on OpenSpritzer, a DIY Picospritzer is now in press at Nature Scientific Reports. We are particularly chuffed about this one as it’s the 1st non-review/dispatch type article coming entirely out of the new lab. Well done
Chris and our delightful
co-authors from UCT, South Africa!
While the paper in press, you can get the sneak preview on the version deposited on bioRxiv:
Forman CJ
§, Tomes H, Mbobo B, Baden T
§, Raimondo JV
§. Openspritzer: an open hardware pressure ejection system for reliably delivering picolitre volumes. bioRxiv; doi:
https://doi.org/10.1101/093633.
direct
Apr 7, 2017
We are excited to receive the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2017.
“In 2017 Eppendorf AG is presenting the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators for the 22nd time. The independent Eppendorf Award Jury chaired by Prof. Reinhard Jahn selected Dr. Tom Baden, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, as the 2017 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. Tom Baden, born 1982, receives the € 20,000 prize for his ground-breaking work on signal processing in the retina. “
The ceremony will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany on June 22nd 2017.
Apr 1, 2017
More than 3 years in the making, and many, many iterations later, we are excited that our new manuscript detailing FlyPi is finally out on bioRxiv. FlyPi is a Fully Open Source 3-D printable fluorescence micrscope and behavioural rig set-up for optogenetic and thermogenetic manipulation of small genetically tractable model species such as zebrafish, Drosophila or C. elegans. The Setup can be assembled for less than 100 Euros!
Chagas, A.M.$, Prieto Godino, L.L., Arrenberg, A. B. and Baden, T.$. The 100 Euro Lab: A 3-D Printable Open Source Platform For Fluorescence Microscopy, Optogenetics And Accurate Temperature Control During Behaviour Of Zebrafish, Drosophila And C. elegans. bioRviv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/122812. direct link.
