We are a group of bio enthusiasts from all walks of life, with different professions and age groups getting together to discuss and perform bio projects and create bio equipment.

We are the only active community biology group  in the Eastern half of Canada. We started our activity more than five years ago and many of our initial members came from  BioTown, a Ottawa based group that was active for four years prior to that. Besides us, the only active groups are in British Columbia on the West Coast.

Our activities are offered to members as well as to external participants. We have managed to build and buy sufficient equipment to perform most of basic biology operation sufficient for a Risk1 category lab which translates to a BSL1 in US.

We require all the participants to read and follow the mandatory biosafety regulation before wet lab activities. Biosafety regulation Regulation and enforcement is the responsibility of Canada Health Agency.

We have participated during the latest Canadian Health Agency Biosummit held in Ottawa in 2020. Adrian - our organizer presented our activity and took part of several panel discussions. Canadian Health Agency Biosummit Agenda

As far as we know, the oldest most active community bio group in Canada is in Vancouver Open Science Network Society . It is organized by Scott Pownall and it is independent from academia. There are one more active group we are aware of and that is Victoria BC Victoria Makerspace

There used to be active groups in Montreal organized by  Kevin Chen and Toronto however they have not been active in the last five years.

Adrian - current organizer

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