Team:London Biohackspace/about-us
a few words about us
WHO ARE WE
London Biohackspace is a UK open biolab, run entirely by its volunteer members, based at the London Hackspace. We are the first community lab in the UK approved for carrying out genetic techniques and we are the only community lab taking part in iGEM from Europe. Our lab is grounded on open-source principles and community development, which allows the freedom for anyone to pursue collaborative or individual projects. The strength of the biohacking and DIYbio community is the diversity of its members. London Biohackspace hopes to encourage enthusiastic amateurs and professionals with backgrounds in a broad mix of professions such as artists, engineers, biologists and programmers to carry out innovative bioscience projects. Anybody can join us and become a Biohacker!
PROJECT OUTLINE
We aim to develop a library of yeasts to be used in a brewing yeast variety kit, allowing the creation of beers with different flavours, scents, colours, nutrients and bioluminescent proteins. The project will explore the use of brewing strains of yeast (i.e. not the commonly used lab strains of S. cerevisiae) as chassis suitable for synthetic biology. The project will both develop new genetic parts as well as expanding the use case and confirmed chassis compatibility of existing iGEM parts. The project will also explore how effective such organisms are in producing genuinely novel drink products that can challenge what beer can be, the project will produce an example product for the future of homebrewing: a variety pack / kit for homebrewers to experiment with different varieties of engineered yeast in their homebrewing endeavours.
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