Rachel Aronoff

At Hackuarium this evening, we will discuss the launch of the Thyrea Biofablab, and the ways we hope to collaborate in the future, to encourage more participatory research.Just thought I should als...

The program was ambitious, but we got many things done.Great thanks to Christiana Giardkioti, the other organisers, and all the participants for the exciting times!

Not only will we be doing biomaterial workshops (tomorrow and next Thursday) to make a smaller version of the 'fruit bowl' with local school kids, we received our MinION flowcell and the latest rea...

At least one 'fruit bowl' from the mycelial biomaterial workshop has come out ok, and we are count on more participants to share their results. Looking forward to seeing them, and hoping our secon...

Big discussions are planned tomorrow with Yngvar and Olivier around the details of the BeeMoS workshop, projected still for 16July, but to be confirmed. The 'fruit bowl' biostructure (mycelia and c...

The workshop was held in the cooperative space of Hackuarium in Ecublens, Switzerland! Participants left with their 'fruit bowls' - mainly inoculated with oyster mushrooms or oyster mushroom grain ...

Thank you to everyone who has supported this campaign! We are so glad we got enough pledges to cover our budget, even with a few days left to go!As a quick update (for the mycelial growth side of ...

Not only were we amazed by the growth of Fomes fometopsis in the silicon muffin trays (hearts and flowers, this time) after only 4 days (!), including on the pure wood shavings substrate (Fig1), bu...

Today, we not only met up with local mycologists at the lab, but another experimental batch of biomaterial forms was begun - not just hearts, but flowers =) - with liquid Fomes fomentarius cultures...