Membership · San Francisco

Join the lab.

Bench space, real equipment, and a community of builders in downtown SF. Bring a project, get onboarded, and start running experiments. No institution required.

Membership

Choose how you build.

Tower
For the community and the curious.
$190 /mo
Your building & community base
  • Access to Frontier Tower & the community
  • Events & open lab nights
  • Member rates on classes & workshops
  • The required base for all lab access
Start here
Most popular
BSL-1 Bench
For builders with a project of their own.
$350 /mo
$190 tower + $160 BSL-1 access
  • Everything in Tower
  • Full BSL-1 bench access
  • Equipment booking
  • Sample & cold storage
  • Standard microbiology & molecular work
Apply for a bench
Tissue Culture
For cell and tissue culture work.
$600 /mo
$350 BSL-1 + $250 tissue culture
  • Everything in BSL-1 Bench
  • Tissue culture suite access
  • Dedicated incubators & sterile hoods
  • Cold storage for cell lines
Talk to us

Every membership stacks on your $190/mo Frontier Tower base and includes safety onboarding and BSL-1 project approval. Running a team or startup? Multi-bench and residency options are available — get in touch. New to the bench? Take a class first.

How it works

From application to bench.

01

Be a tower member

Biopunk Lab lives inside Frontier Tower. Start with a Frontier Tower membership to get into the building.

Join Frontier Tower →
02

Apply for lab membership

Tell us who you are, what you want to build, and your experience level. Takes a couple of minutes.

Open the application →
03

Review & safety quiz

We review your project and you pass a short BSL-1 safety quiz. Once approved, you are cleared for the bench.

04

Pay for lab membership

Set up your recurring lab membership to activate bench access and equipment booking.

Set up membership →
05

Onboard your materials

Log your samples and reagents against our inventory and get them approved. Then you are in — go build.

Safety First

Punk, not reckless.

Open access only works because the space is safe. Biopunk Lab operates at Biosafety Level 1, and every member is onboarded before touching a bench.

Read the biosafety handbook →

On the bench

Equipment you can book.

Thermocyclers / PCR Microcentrifuges Gel electrophoresis Microscopes Incubators & shakers Biosafety cabinet -20°C / -80°C freezers Autoclave Spectrophotometer

This is a snapshot — see the full, live equipment inventory for everything you can book.