BioCoS is using DNA solutions to tackle food fraud. They are applying their technology by testing the authenticity of olive oil.
Athanasia Duorou from BioCoS InterviewFighting Food Fraud with Bioinformatics and Biomarkers
Dr Athanasia Dourou, BioCoS
BioCoS is using DNA solutions to tackle food fraud. They are applying their technology by testing the authenticity of olive oil.
Athanasia Duorou from BioCoS InterviewDr Ineke Knot, NatureMetrics / University of Amsterdam
As part of her PhD, Ineke Knot used portable genomics to study parasites in great apes. Recently she joined biodiversity monitoring company NatureMetrics as a researcher, working from her home lab.
Ineke Knot InterviewDr Brian Douglas, Lost and Found Fungi Project
Over the past few years, field mycologists (amateur fungal experts) in the UK have been using Bento Lab to help identify fungal biodiversity and characterise new species to the UK and to science.
“DNA-enabling” UK field mycologists to discover new species and DNA barcode fungal biodiversityElizabeth Duncan, University of Leeds
Dr Elizabeth Duncan and her colleagues took a group of 40 students for a Mediterranean Ecology field trip. The students used Bento Lab to look for parasite infections in bees.
Protecting desert bees: identifying Nosema infections in honey beesDr Bernice Brewster, Aquatic Consultancy Service
Dr Bernice Brewster is developing new, reliable methods for identifying these fish parasites using DNA analysisb. Working alongside Kingston University, and the UK Environment Agency, she monitors the introduction of new invasive species.
Identifying small invaders: DNA Barcoding Gill FlukesDr Josef Vuch, Club Alpinistico Triestino
Dr Josef Vuch studies amphibians living in underground caves around Trieste, Italy. He uses Bento Lab to extract DNA and to prepare DNA barcodes for sequencing.
Deep, Dark DNA: Exploring the Next Frontier with BiospeleologyDr Sophie Zaaijer, New York Genome Center
Dr Sophie Zaaijer and her team have developed an inexpensive method to prepare ready-to-sequence libraries for MinION in 55 minutes, using Bento Lab.
Rapid re-identification of human samples using portable DNA sequencingYCAM, Yamaguchi, Japan
Participants of YCAM’s Interlab Camp learnt DNA sequencing with Bento Lab and Oxford Nanopore’s MinION, and explored potential links with ethics, art, and design.
Interlab Camp: Personal BiotechnologyDavid Harries, Pembrokeshire Fungus Recording Network
David Harries and the Pembrokeshire Fungus Recording Network collect fungus fruit bodies and sequence their DNA barcode. Their data contributes to a better understanding of the relationships between fungus collections in Pembrokeshire, UK.
Pembrokeshire Fungus Recording Network DNA Barcoding Exercise May 2019Stephane Boyer, Unitec, New Zealand
Stephane Boyer uses Bento Lab to teach molecular biology to students interested in biodiversity. His biodiversity research often takes him to remote places to collect DNA samples.
Biodiversity Research and Hands-on TeachingDr Karl Perron, BiOutils, University of Geneva
BiOutils provide teaching materials and know-how to secondary schools in Geneva. Using Bento Lab, they are enabling every student to experience modern experimental biology in their classrooms.
BiOutils DNA Barcoding Protocols [fr]Edoardo Gianni, London Biohackspace
University student Edoardo Gianni and his friends are working on their own biotech projects outside of the college campus. Edoardo has a passion dinoflagellates, marine plankton that glow at night. He wants to identify the genes that makes them glow.
London BiohackspaceGianpaolo Rando, BeerDecoded
Gianpaolo Rando is on a mission to understand craft beer at molecular level. Inside a Swiss biohackerspace he prepares DNA libraries for sequencing 1,000 beer microbiomes with the Bento Lab.
Decoding Beer with Bento LabKevin Chen, Hyasynth Bio / Bricobio
As a founder of a medical startup and a community lab, Kevin is often on the road. While the rest of his lab stays in Montreal, he brings Bento Lab with him to teach and demonstrate his work.
Kevin Chen - Community Science Laboratories