Community labs enable cutting-edge research on a shoe-string budget. Think of us as a germinator rather than an incubator – a place where wildly creative ideas can be nurtured and explored, but also a place to shake up some of the unexamined assumptions of the biotech industry, and where biotech professionals and novices alike can have the freedom to participate in projects for the Common Good without needing to sell their soul (or IP). We will present some of our successful community projects at Counter Culture Labs that have turned into international collaborations, such as Open Insulin, Real Vegan Cheese, and the Kombucha Genomics project, and have a spirited discussion around what it means to do Open Science.
