Happy New Year!... Happy (very) belated New Year, DIYbioers! I want to recount some of the exciting high points of the past few months, and share some hopes for 2009. Local groups outside the Boston area are sprouting up and folks are getting some quality kitchen table time, as my friend Justin calls it. DIYbio Seattleites...
Bay Area DIYbio meetup 1... Six DIYbiologists met at Frjtz in San Francisco on Saturday, January 19th for the first time. Here are some new ideas we tossed around: DIYbiologists John, Spencer, and Marnia enjoy Frjtz fries BioWeather Maps Jason Bobe, visiting from Boston, introduced BioWeather Maps. Imagine a day in April, DIYbiologists...
Second Seattle Meetup... A couple days ago, I met up with Randy Hall and Dan Heidel. I hadn’t met Dan before, but he heard about the recent Seattle meeting and got in touch. He’s this really smart dude who is currently in the process of setting up Seattle Open Biolabs, a wetlab adjacent to a hackerspace he’s...
First Seattle DIYbio Meetup... On January 3, nine of us* from the Seattle area met for our first DIYbio meeting. Over lunch, we introduced ourselves and our passions, discussed some potential projects, possible labspaces, safety concerns, public perception, future meetings, and a host of other DIYbio-related issues. We’re going...