Genspace

Genspace is a non-profit organization and a community biology laboratory located in Brooklyn, New York. Stemming from the hacking, biohacking, and DIYbio movements, Genspace has focused (since 2009) on supporting citizen science and public access to biotechnology.^[2] Genspace opened the first community biology lab in 2010^[3] and a Biosafety Level One laboratory in December of that year.^[4][5] Since its opening, Genspace has supported projects, events, courses, art, and general community resources concerning biology, biotechnology, synthetic biology, genetic engineering, citizen science, open source software, open source hardware, and more.

Genspace

Formation	2009
Purpose	Biohacking, Hacking
Location	140 32nd St, Suite 108, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Coordinates	40.6877089°N 73.9798782°W / 40.6877089; -73.9798782
Services	Biosafety Level One lab, membership access, educational workshops, student programs
Key people	Ellen Jorgensen,[1] Daniel Grushkin, Oliver Medvedik, Nurit Bar-Shai
Website	genspace.org

A collaboration between Genspace and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory earned a second place win from the American Society for Microbiology's 2015 AgarArt competition.^[6]

Gallery

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  Objects made from mycelium
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  Spoons made of various organic materials, used in place of plastics
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  CRISPR yeast
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  The Genspace lab manager holds up microbe dye strains for a tour group
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  Leaves which have images printed on them