(I suggest that maybe you want to offer to take free suggestions before you pay people - at least that might save you some dollars)

I was really saying - save your money till after people shoot off some low-hanging fruit ideas.

I would argue that the current barrier of "it costs lots of money to do bio-hacking right" is a terrible one to hide behind because of how easy it is to overcome it; or do biohacking less-right and less-safely. i.e. without safe containment areas.

Perhaps funding things like clean-rooms with negative pressure and leaving the rest up to whoever is using the lab-space.