Hi, I'm forwarding this to our biolab mailing list.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Membership request Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:46:46 +0000 From: Vidhi Mehta vidhi.vm@gmail.com To: Jan Hrach jenda@hrach.eu
Hi Jan,
I am actually a design engineering student from London, I have been looking at the biostrike webpage and read an article of bio commons. I am working on a design project of similar nature.
I am working on a citizen science project where I am looking at how could drug research for new antibiotics be made open source through simple toolkit and latching onto the power of cyber networks. So many of our antibiotics have been a derivative of substances found in nature, fungus, soil, herbs. Could we use power of crowdsourced networks to create a database of substances and their antimicrobial values.
I am currently working with a biophysicists, Josiah Zayner (who is in USA) to make the kit which consist of an agar plate and non pathogenic E.Coli bacteria that people can use to test locally grown substances for their antimicrobial properties. We have first version of the kit in the market, called ILIAD kit.
As a designer my idea is to make preliminary research so simple that almost anyone can participate and provide samples which may result in identifying few samples that can be tested further. Through the project we have collected our data points on synbiota webpage. The project is in its very initial phase and it would be really helpful to get some inspiration from a team of people with specialised knowledge within this field.
Would it be possible for you to introduce me to people who worked in this domain. It may not be exactly possible to come to the wet lab as of now but I would love to visit it at a later point.
Thanks Regards Vidhi Mehta Innovation Design Engineering
Royal College of Art | Imperial College London
On 18-Feb-2015, at 8:55 pm, Jan Hrach <jenda@hrach.eu mailto:jenda@hrach.eu> wrote:
Hello! We usually want a new member to come and introduce himself several times before we approve a membership request. Just feel free to come by and hack stuff!
On 18.2.2015 17:23, Vidhi Mehta wrote:
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