Victoria Makerspace Explained

Victoria Makerspace
Formation:	2010
Purpose:	Biohacking, Hacking
Location:	Suite 4, 4476 Markham St, Victoria, British Columbia
Services:	electronics, CNC, woodworking, machining and welding, Biosafety Level One lab, membership access, educational workshops, student programs
Key People:	Derek Jacoby, Thomas Gray

The Victoria Makerspace is a biology community lab, founded by Derek Jacoby and Thomas Gray in 2010,^[1] and was one of the first do-it-yourself biology labs, following the establishment of BioCurious and Genspace in the US.^[2] The lab has taken part in the FBI DIY biology summit in Walnut Creek, California in 2012,^[3] the first Canadian DIY Biology Summit in 2016,^[4] and the iGEM synthetic biology competition in 2014 with a project on preventing dental decay.^[5]

Further reading

• News: B.C. struggling to develop the trades of the future job market. The Globe and Mail. February 13, 2014. 2017-10-04. Justine. Hunter. Justin. Giovannetti.
• Web site: Gunn. Dan. Victoria Makerspace on the B-Side. Oct 4, 2017.

External links

• Official website
• Victoria Makerspace on Hackerspaces.org

Notes and References

1. MacAlpine. Winne. Ideas Unbound. UVic Torch Alumni Magazine. Oct 30, 2013. Autumn 2013. 16-17. Oct 4, 2017.
2. Web site: Jacoby. Derek. A Hackerspace for Biology. Oct 4, 2017.
3. Web site: Michael . Scroggins . Fall 2013 . DIYbio and the "New FBI" . O'Reilly BioCoder .
4. Web site: DIY Biology: From Basement to Biolab. The Science of Health.
5. Web site: iGEM 2014 Team Information. Oct 4, 2017.