<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Grushkin</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgrushkin@gmail.com">dgrushkin@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:14 PM<br>Subject: Genspace: Open for Business<br>To: <a href="mailto:diybio-nyc@googlegroups.com">diybio-nyc@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:diybio@googlegroups.com">diybio@googlegroups.com</a><br>
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<p>From Sung won Lim's blog post on <a href="http://genspace.org" target="_blank">genspace.org</a>
(<a href="http://www.genspace.org/blog/?p=32" target="_blank">http://www.genspace.org/blog/?p=32</a>):</p>
<p>After two years of blood, sweat, and labor (only a few tears), we
finally announced the birth of Genspace to the world on December
10th. The preparation leading to the big day was typical of the
ragtag crew of Genspace: chaotic, intense, lasting way past most
people’s bedtime, but it mysteriously worked out in the end.<a href="http://www.genspace.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Genspace_wall1.jpg" target="_blank"><br>
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<p>Everyone showed up: art students, scientists, writers, and long
lost faces from two years ago. Turns out two tables filled to the
brim with food, wine and beer weren’t quite enough to accommodate
the bio-curious crowd in the city
(not to confuse <a href="http://www.biocurious.org" target="_blank">our counterpart in SF</a>). It’s almost funny
how we worried that no one would turn up.</p>
<p>The entire laboratory was strewn with Christmas lights. A light
box illuminated an algae bioreactor at the space. Screens were set
up to show videos of microscopic organisms, and on our desktop in
the study a live feed of strawberry tissue streamed from a $12
USB microscope in the lab. Even our neighbor <a href="http://chriswoebken.com/animalsuperpowers.html" target="_blank">Chris</a>
pulled out all the stops, demonstrating his ‘animal sense’
contraption for people to try.</p>
<p>We still have ways to go, however. We need to reach out to the
population of the city and show them that science is accessible.
We need to work ever harder to break the walls surrounding
learning and practice of science, and we need to create ever more
ingenious, useful, and beautiful things.</p>
<p>The Genspace grand opening isn’t about the past two years, it’s
about the future. Let’s bring back the romance between the
sciences and the public. I am proud to be a founding member of
the first community biotech laboratory in NYC.</p>
<p>Who knows? Maybe we really will end up changing the world for the
better.</p>
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