BeerDeCoded
Know your beers.
Craft-science at molecular level.
To help:
Drinkers
Discover new beers.
Homebrewers
Benchmark their homebrew.
Microbreweries
QC their batches.
Where we stand
2015
✓ Project funded (Kickstarter)
✓ Collected metadata for 250+ beers
✓ Bioinformatic pipeline tested (OneCodex)
2016
✓ Prepared 96 DNA libraries (Bento Lab)
✓ 39 DNA libraries passed QC.
2017
✓ Sequenced 39 beers!
✓ Analysed wild-yeast results
Team
& repeating collaborators
BeerDeCoded =
Gianpaolo Rando, Ph.D.
Director
Nicolas Rotman, Ph.D.
Molecular biology
Jonathan Sobel, M.Sc.
Bioinformatics
Marco Maggiotti
Software Engineer
Vanessa Lorenzo
Interaction design
Alex Hantson, B.Sc.
Digital marketing
Luc Henry, Ph.D.
Science outreach
Gabrielle Salanon
Brewing, molecular enology
Brij Sahi, MBA
Business development
Hackuarium
Association
A community of passionate individuals working in a non-institutional, open and fully equipped laboratory.
Founded in August 2014 and growing steadily since, Hackuarium is now the home of 40+ people working part-time on a variety of projects ranging from Antarctica exploration to bioelectronic sensors for water pollutants and, of course beer DNA.
SwissDeCode
Company
Safe Food Saves Lives. We help food manufacturers to grow and produce food that is safe to eat.
Specifically, we enable smart decisions during production, transforming time consuming laboratory analyses into portable “plug-and-play” devices that delivers food safety and compliance certificates.
BOSC Open-Science Conference
July 23rd 2017, Prague
We released 7 Gb of beer DNA data.
EPFL Open Food Hackdays
Feb 11th 2017. We analysed 118 beers with a scanner used by the police to identify chemical substances.
Your event
Interested to have BeerDeCoded at your event?
EXPO15
Oct 22, 2015. We sampled beers of the world at EXPO Milan and interacted with visitors of the Swiss pavillon.
Swissnex San Francisco
Feb 19, 2016. A hands on workshop on the microbiology of beer open to Swiss alumni and friends. Pour, test and taste.
DeCoding beer
in Ljubljana
March 24, 2016
Slovenian beer + tempeh workshop
LIFT Basel
Oct 30 2015. Give them beer, people start talking about genomics.
Kickstarter, NY
Feb 27, 2015. We were selected for the 1st Kickstarter Science Hackathon.
Funded in 20 days.
DocParty
Annual PhD's party at the University of Geneva
Where
All the operations are headquartered inside the open biology laboratory Hackuarium.ch
in Renens, Grand Lausanne area. Switzerland.
Open to the public every Wednesday night from 7:30 PM
Enquiries: gianpaolo.rando@swissdecode.ch +41 (0)79 930 79 91
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