This sounds like something this group would do…
“A group holding red cups full of beer converged around a kitchen table littered with petri dishes, pipettes, and other basic laboratory equipment. Our host/lab director, Justin Pahara, explained how we were all going to take a custom snippet of DNA and stick it into some unsuspecting Escherichia coli bacteria. In essence, we were about to reprogram a living cell in an Austin, Texas kitchen.”
“SXSW 2015: I REPROGRAMMED A LIFEFORM IN SOMEONE’S KITCHEN WHILE DRINKING A BEER: BIOHACKING KITS HELP YOU MODIFY GENES IN THE COMFORT OF HOME”