BIOHACK ACADEMY
Design, Build & Use your own Lab
The BioHack Academy promotes wider access to knowledge and tools outside institutional science and allows for a wider distribution of biotechnological literacy. In the BioHack Academy the focus is on learning the basics of biotechnology, working with biomaterials and collaborating building your own lab equipment. We will teach you how to join the bio revolution and build your own lab equipment using a local makerspace or Fablab.
In 2015 we brought the Biohack Academy to São Paulo!
What is the BioHack Academy?
The BioHack Academy is a 10-week course. During the BioHack Academy you learn the basics of biotechnology, 3D design, digital fabrication, programming and electronics.
During weekly classes, students quickly gain skills needed to grow their own fuel, food, filaments, pharmaceuticals, fragrances, fungi and much more funky bio stuff at home. The simplicity and low costs of many techniques make it possible to apply biotechnology outside laboratories or research institutions and to carry out experiments. BioHack Academy students work with biomaterials varying from bio-pigments to bio-textiles as well as with microbes, algae, genetics and other forms of biotechnology.
With this course participants obtain a lot of knowledge that provide a base to continue their own research for many years.
The Coordinators
Brasil
Eduardo Padilha
Eduardo Lopes
Martina Francesca Ferracane
Rome
Eugenio Battaglia
Barcelona
Alvaro Jansà
Daniel Grajales
Amsterdam
Pieter van Boheemen
María Boto Ordoñez
Veit Penzenstadler
Hany Saad
Zowi Mens
Lucas Evers
Marc Boonstra
Alex Schaub
Emma Pareschi
Tessel van Leeuwen
Jelmer Cnossen