Bimonthly Meetups on Wednesdays at 7:00pm, 1677 St. Clair Avenue West !
This week’s Meetup:
Wet lab Wednesday Oct.1, 2025, 7pm, will be mainly for DIYBIO full members to prepare for classes and courses this coming month.
While we do not have a planned talk this week, we welcome anyone to drop by who is interested in finding out about our space or helping out, at 7 pm. Cheers!
📍 Where: DIYBIO Toronto, At the Hacklab, 1677 St Clair Avenue West – get there by streetcar on the 512 just past Caledonia, at the Laughton St stop. Or drive. There are usually spots on neighbouring streets.
What we did !
Last Week’s Meetup, Wednesday Sept 17th, we had a great discussion of molecular biology, general cloning methods and approaches!!! Thanks to all who attended! For Wet lab Wednesday: preparing for Cloning, we hosted an in-person talk and demo on basic cloning techniques and prepare for some basic cloning in the lab.
We discussed how to purify a PCR product and get it ready for cloning, design a construct, See how cloning is done for BSL1 constructs
📍 Where: DIYBIO Toronto, At the Hacklab, 1677 St Clair Avenue West – get there by streetcar on the 512 just past Caledonia, at the Laughton St stop. Or drive. There are usually spots on neighbouring streets.
Micro organs, Mega impact: exploring organoids and organs-on-a-chip Meetup!
This was an awesome talk with the DIYBIO summer interns and Nims Thavandiran, a PhD in bioengineering.
📅 When: 2pm, Wednesday August 20th (in person). We explored how advanced bioengineering meets grassroots science at the future of biomedical research, and demoed some of our printed devices with food colouring! https://www.meetup.com/diybio-toronto/events/310531811/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
other meetups:
Left Panel: After discussing some of the challenges with the GFP beer project, we successfully ran a protein gel to test out the PAGE equipment graciously donated to us last December! The protein standard separated nicely and we set the gel to stain. We will update further next week!
Bottom Panel: Some of the Meetup members who joined up in our explorations this week!
