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Hi! Here's a list of the equipment available today: pipettes, pipette tips, realtime PCR machine, OpenPCR PCR machine, incubator, shaking water bath, vortexers

by tito 15y ago

Hi! Here's a list of the equipment available today: pipettes, pipette tips, realtime PCR machine, OpenPCR PCR machine, incubator, shaking water bath, vortexers, gel electrophoresis boxes. If you don't have an experiment in mind, we have lots of awesome classes where you can do things like sequence your own DNA and make glowing cells: http://meetup.com/biocurious http://meetup.com/biocurious Tito co-founder BioCurious

nazar 15y ago
Hi. Horses are very important animals in where i live(We even have ministry of horses...). So me and one friend of mine tried to isolate DNA from best horse breeds and then make a database, and later mine that database to perform selection predictions by computer... Its a big project and founded by gvt. I am not a part of it, my friend just consults me from time to time, since I am both acquainted with programming and biology. We are stuck with DNA isolation from horse blood right now. Do you think this kind of experiment would be interesting?
- mbreese 15y ago
  Is there a veterinary school near you (Turkmenistan)? If so, this is your best bet. They should have the equipment to do proper DNA isolation from blood. (Something like this will help: Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue kit [1]) What you'll probably want to do is high-throughput DNA sequencing and then map the sequences to the Horse genome [2]. Then you'll be able to compare the variations from various breeds. But this is a pretty large project. [1] http://www.qiagen.com/products/genomicdnastabilizationpurification/dneasytissuesystem/dneasybloodtissuekit.aspx#Tabs=t0 http://www.qiagen.com/products/genomicdnastabilizationpurifi... [2] http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horsemap/ http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horsemap/ (I think)
  - nazar 15y ago
    Hi, thank you for the info. The project is well funded(equipment is therefor isnt much of an issue), the problem is not with money but with professionals. The guy just finished university, and they ask him to conduct this project. There are not many people here who know this stuff, neither the biological aspect nor the programming. And I guess they don't want to hire foreigners, i am not sure why. You see, horses are so important here, you can even get a sentence for killing one. So maybe it has something to do with foreigners thing.
daen 15y ago
Making bacteria glow at the BioCurious meetup last month was one of the most fun things I've done, because, well, IT'S SCIENCE!, but also for the curiosity of the participants, the patience and knowledge of the instructors, and the slightly strange feeling I got where, on that particular Saturday afternoon, I doubted you could find another group of people engaged in quite the same pastime on planet Earth!

by tito 15y ago

nazar 15y ago

Hi. Horses are very important animals in where i live(We even have ministry of horses...). So me and one friend of mine tried to isolate DNA from best horse breeds and then make a database, and later mine that database to perform selection predictions by computer... Its a big project and founded by gvt. I am not a part of it, my friend just consults me from time to time, since I am both acquainted with programming and biology. We are stuck with DNA isolation from horse blood right now. Do you think this kind of experiment would be interesting?

mbreese 15y ago
Is there a veterinary school near you (Turkmenistan)? If so, this is your best bet. They should have the equipment to do proper DNA isolation from blood. (Something like this will help: Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue kit [1]) What you'll probably want to do is high-throughput DNA sequencing and then map the sequences to the Horse genome [2]. Then you'll be able to compare the variations from various breeds. But this is a pretty large project. [1] http://www.qiagen.com/products/genomicdnastabilizationpurification/dneasytissuesystem/dneasybloodtissuekit.aspx#Tabs=t0 http://www.qiagen.com/products/genomicdnastabilizationpurifi... [2] http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horsemap/ http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horsemap/ (I think)
- nazar 15y ago
  Hi, thank you for the info. The project is well funded(equipment is therefor isnt much of an issue), the problem is not with money but with professionals. The guy just finished university, and they ask him to conduct this project. There are not many people here who know this stuff, neither the biological aspect nor the programming. And I guess they don't want to hire foreigners, i am not sure why. You see, horses are so important here, you can even get a sentence for killing one. So maybe it has something to do with foreigners thing.

daen 15y ago

Making bacteria glow at the BioCurious meetup last month was one of the most fun things I've done, because, well, IT'S SCIENCE!, but also for the curiosity of the participants, the patience and knowledge of the instructors, and the slightly strange feeling I got where, on that particular Saturday afternoon, I doubted you could find another group of people engaged in quite the same pastime on planet Earth!