OpenPlant Fund and Biomaker Challenge Projects

The OpenPlant Biomaker Challenge (previously the OpenPlant Fund and the SynBio IRC Biomaker Challenge) supports innovative, open and interdisciplinary projects relevant to plant synthetic biology and cell-free systems. The aim of the fund is to promote the development of plant synthetic biology and cell-free systems as interdisciplinary fields and to facilitate exchange between the University of Cambridge, the John Innes Centre, and the Earlham Institute for the development of open technologies and responsible innovation in the context of Synthetic Biology.

Running 1-2 times a year since 2015, the Challenge has proved to be a highly effective way of providing important support for independent small projects and promoting valuable new collaborations among young researchers, along with the development and documentation of open source biology, hardware and bioinstrumentation.

A full list of OpenPlant Fund, Biomaker Challenge and OpenPlant Biomaker Challenge projects is listed below. Project details are available on the Biomaker Hackster Hub. For more details about the OpenPlant Biomaker Challenge, see the Biomaker website.


OpenPlant Biomaker Challenge Projects

Winter 2020/2021 (projects 180-190)

Winter 2019 (projects 153-179)

Winter 2018-2019 (projects 145-152)

Summer 2018 (projects 135-144)

Summer 2017 (projects 94-134)


OpenPlant Fund Projects

November 2019 (projects 92-93)

July 2018 (projects 82-91)

December 2017 (projects 72-81)

July 2017 (projects 62-71)

December 2016 (projects 52-61)

January 2016 (projects 38-51)

July 2015 (projects 22-37)