Bacterial Photography Workshop

UPDATE: Event has been postponed to Sep/Oct 2022, new date will be communicated as soon as possible.

Join us for a one-day workshop during which you will learn basic molecular biology and genetic modificaion techniques, and will have a chance to print out your favority photo using E.Coli bacteria!

More specifically, we'll transform E.Coli with the following optogenetic circuit:

After that, bacteria will be placed in the custom incubator, with embedded project that projects an image of choice on the bacterial colony. As a result, bacteria will produce pigments of different colar, creating an image on the plate.

During the workshop you will:

• learn safety principles in the lab
• practice pipetting techniques
• learn the theory behind bacterial transformation and optogenetics
• genetically modify E.Coli bacteria

Available for FREE to ETH and UZH students. No prior biology or lab experience required!

This workshop is organized by studentbiolab.ch, a group of students passionate about biology and creating a space where life science students can work on independent research and build product prototypes.

Original paper: Engineering RGB color vision into Escherichia coli https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2390