Winnie Poncelet is the co-founder of ReaGent and Magma Nova, among others, in Gent Belgium. For the last years Winnie worked with a growing community of biohackers and found interesting ways of being productive, research different topics and become good friends. Winnie's expertise lies in growing fungi as a new biomaterial to replace plastics and other conventional materials. We were really happy to have him on the podcast to talk about what can go wrong when growing insects in your basement, what to do with a gifted 454 sequencer, and where the name Magma Nova comes from.