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Tekla Labs at CGIU

Kate — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:38:25 +0000

Tekla Labs will be at the Clinton Global Initiative University meeting coming up on April 5-7th. We’re excited to spend the weekend hearing from the incredible line-up of speakers, developing our commitment to increase access to standard laboratory equipment, and meeting other groups working on global science capacity building. If you are going to be there, let us know!

Video of Social Entrepreneurship Symposium up on Vimeo!

Kate — Tue, 29 May 2012 01:15:33 +0000

For those of you who couldn’t make it to the Tekla Labs Social Entrepreneurship Symposium (or who want to see it again!), you can check out video of all the talks on our Vimeo page. Special thanks to all of our speakers for sharing their experiences and ideas; we hope you all feel as inspired by them as we do!

Speakers
Evan Steiner, Hub Bay Area
Teju Ravilochan, co-founder of the Unreasonable Institute
Tessa Finlev, Institute For The Future
Dr. Hal Aronson, co-founder of WE CARE Solar
John Danner, Professor in the Haas School of Business
Gautham Venugopalan, President of Future Scientist

Nature’s Soapbox Science talks the Future of Funding

Kate — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:05:27 +0000

The most recent series in Nature’s Soapbox Science blog focuses on different ways scientists worldwide are funding their research in the current economic climate. Tekla Labs, Kickstarter, and Petridish are all featured as new avenues for scientists to fufill their research needs in the face of decreasing federal funding and parallel increases in crowdsourcing and social networking.

As part of this discussion, see Tekla Labs’ text on Soapbox for our ideas on engaging individual scientists as active global citizens.

Share your ideas!

Tekla Labs demo at Biocurious!

Kate — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:49:51 +0000

This coming Monday, February 27th, Tekla Labs will be demoing some designs we are working on at the BioCurious hackerspace in Sunnyvale, CA. Join us there to hear more about what designs we are working on, and test out some of our recently build DIY lab equipment. Space is limited, so sign up soon!

DIY Research Grade Equipment for Laboratories in Developing Regions
Monday, February 27, 2012, 6:30 PM
BioCurious: 845 Stewart Drive, Suite C, Sunnyvale, CA

Chemical & Engineering News covers Tekla Labs

Kate — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:41:36 +0000

Chemical & Engineering News just published a great article, Makeshift Chemistry, on the need for affordable lab equipment–featuring Tekla Labs and other interesting projects to increase research capacity in emerging regions!

AAAS Annual Meeting This Weekend in Vancouver

Kate — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:27:44 +0000

Just a reminder that Tekla Labs is going to be at the AAAS Annual Meeting this weekend!

We are organizing a symposium on Friday, featuring talks focused around ways in which scientists, engineers, and policy makers can encourage the growth of research capacity in emerging regions. Dr. Iruka Okeke, an associate professor in biology at Haverford College, will be joining us to discuss her experiences working with labs in Africa and share insights on how to build fruitful international scientific collaborations. Our own Lina Nilsson will give a talk about Tekla Labs and other recent efforts to make low-cost, high quality laboratory tools using off-the-shelf resources. Finally we will hear from Dr. Barbara Gastel, a professor at Texas A&M University, who will discuss her work on the AuthorAID project, which aims to connect researchers in developing countries to the global science community by helping them write about and publish their research.

Toward a Global Lab: Building Science Capacity in Developing Countries
Date: Friday, February 17, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Where: Vancouver Convention Center, Room 213

To hear more about Tekla Labs and meet some of our members, stop by our poster on Saturday:

Advancing Community-Driven Do-It-Yourself Solutions for Scientific Lab Equipment in the Developing World: The Tekla Labs Model
Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Where: Vancouver Convention Centre, West Exhibit Hall A-B1

Winter 2012 Update

Kate — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:41:17 +0000

TeklaWinter2012Update

TEDxBerkeley this Saturday, February 4th

Kate — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:39:41 +0000

The third annual TEDxBerkeley event is coming up this Saturday, and Tekla Labs will be there! For those of you unfamiliar with TEDx conferences, they are “a program of local, self organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience” throughout the world, and we are excited to be a part of this one being held on the UC Berkeley campus.

Join us in listening to some inspiring speakers, and stop by our table to see our designs in action and hear more about what Tekla Labs has in store for the new year!

Tekla Labs at East Bay Maker Faire this weekend!

Kate — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:57:17 +0000

This Sunday, October 16th, we will be demoing some of our designs at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire. Come experiment with us and check out all the cool projects coming from other bay area makers!

Science Hack Day SF

Kate — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:29:34 +0000

We at Tekla Labs are very much looking forward to the second annual Science Hack Day, coming up on November 12 & 13th. Tickets are free but limited, so we suggest you get yours soon! Science Hack Day is a 48-hour event that brings together scientists, designers, hackers, and anyone else interested in problem solving/learning/having fun to collaborate on user contributed science hacks. You can check out the demoed hacks from last year here, and look at what people have planned or add your own ideas to this year’s hacks here. Hope to see you there!