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SUMMARY:Cafe Synthetique: Low-Cost Open Hardware for Biology - Wolfgang Sc
 hmied [MRC-LMB]\, Stephanie Polderdijk [MRC-LMB]\, Marcel Gehrung [CRUK-CI
 ]
DTSTART:20180122T180000Z
DTEND:20180122T200000Z
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CONTACT:Alexandra Ting
DESCRIPTION:This month\, we'll be hearing from the winners of the 2017 Bio
 maker Challenge! \n\nBEST TECHNOLOGY: Open Science Approaches to Protein P
 urification\n\nStéphanie Polderdijk and Wolfgang Schmied set out to lower
  the cost of column chromatography: a routine technique for the separation
  of components from complex mixtures. In biochemistry and molecular biolog
 y\, proteins frequently need to be purified by gravity flow\, centrifugati
 on\, which are time-consuming or by using expensive automated systems that
  use pumps to force solutions over a column. They produced a lower cost\, 
 modular\, open-source alternative to these commercial systems for performi
 ng simple\, routine purifications.\n\nBEST BIOLOGY: Small Animal Monitorin
 g- The Maker Perspective\n\nMarcel Gehrung\, Dominick McIntyre and Lina Ha
 cker (all from CRUK Cambridge Institute) developed a low-cost rodent physi
 ology monitor which is suitable for a wide range of experiments and imagin
 g applications such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomog
 raphy (CT). Parameters such as Heart Rate (HR)\, Respiratory Rate (RR)\, a
 nd Temperature can be measured which are important to reduce data artefact
 s. Existing solutions are in the cost range of several thousand pounds and
  do not support the holistic workflow required in animal experiments.\n\nS
 ee you there!\n\nCafé Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge
  synthetic biology community with informal talks\, discussion and pub snac
 ks.
LOCATION:Panton Arms 43 Panton Street CB2 1HL\, Cambridge
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