Date Title Speaker Recording
Week 1: Introduction Short introduction   link
Assignment: setup your blog. Lecture: What is biohacking? Lucas Evers link
email your page to kas@waag.org Workshop: How to document your experiments Kas Houthuijs and Maarten Smith link
  Guest Lecture: Biohacking as a creative practice Ionat Zurr link
  Lecture: Lab- and bio-safety Kas Houthuijs and Per Staugaard link
       
Week 2: Deconstructing the Lab Lecture: Hardware Introduction Kas Houthuijs and Maarten Smith link
  Discussion: What is a lab? Kas Houthuijs and Maarten Smith link
  Guest lecture: Reenactments Paul Vanouse link
  Workshop: deconstructing a lab photospectrometer Maarten Smith link
  Workshop: constructing a USB spectrometer Maarten Smith  
       
Week 3: Making the Lab Guest Lecture: DIY lab building Urs Gaudenz link
Assignment: adapt and build a Lecture: Fablab Introduction Kas Houthuijs and Maarten Smith link
sterile hood, magnetic stirrer Workshop: Open source digital design Maarten Smith link
and incubator (optional) Workshop: open source making Kas Houthuijs and Maarten Smith  
  Workshop: open source making Kas Houthuijs and Maarten Smith  
       
Week 4: Growing Materials Guest Lecture: Bioartistic Research: Lichen Adriana Knouf link
  Lecture: Biology and lab practices Kas Houthuijs link
  Lecture: Biosafety in the lab Kas Houthuijs and Per Staugaard link
  Guest Lecture: Biomaterials Margherita Soldati link
  Workshop Biomaterials Lorena Trebbi link
       
Week 5: Growing more (HLN) Lecture: Creative GMOs Lucas Evers link
  Lecture: Genetic Modification Basics Kas Houthuijs link
  Workshop: growing GMO’s Pt1 Kas Houthuijs  
  Design Fiction assignment Frank Vloet  
  Design Fiction assignment Frank Vloet  
  Workshop: growing GMO’s Pt2 Kas Houthuijs  
  Prototype Presentations Participant groups  
  Lecture: Synthetic Biology as an Artistic Practice Howard Boland link
  Workshop: Protein Isolation Pt 1 Kas Houthuijs  
  Workshop: Protein Isolation Pt 2 Kas Houthuijs  
  Workshop: Protein Isolation Pt 3 Kas Houthuijs  
       
Week 6: Life in Silico Guest Lecture: CRISPR research in artistic context John La Cava link
  Workshop Digital DNA Design Fábio Júnio Ferreira link
  Workshop Digital DNA Databases    
  Workshop DNA Design    
       
Week 7: CRISPR week Guest Lecture: CRISPR Art Marta de Menezes link
  Lecture: CRISPR Basics Kas Houthuijs link
  Workshop: sgRNA synthesis Kas Houthuijs  
  Workshop: sgRNA purification Kas Houthuijs  
  Workshop: CRISPR in vitro Cutting Kas Houthuijs  
  Workshop: Gelelectrophoresis Kas Houthuijs  
       
Week 8: Personal Project No lectures    
       
Week 9: Personal Project No lectures    
       
Week 10: Presentations Final Presenatations participants link