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DIYbio events for the week of June 12

June 12, 2016

scstowell

Here are your DIYbio events for the week.  On Sunday, Albany has Dr Elavarasi Joseph presenting and leading a discussion of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, Bethesda will be meeting in Reston, VA where Mana will demonstrate an EEG controlled sculpture and you can participate in various projects, and Oakland continues their Open Insulin project.  On Tuesday Amsterdam continues on various plant based projects, Beijing has a synthetic biology conference, Brooklyn has a workshop providing the guide RNA design background and discussion points to prepare for hands-on CRISPR/Cas9 experimentation, and Sunnyvale continues with their quantum salinity detector project.  On Wednesday, Cambridge will be part of an open science workshop and maker faire, Charlottesville will be carrying on a game of rating attractiveness through the isolation of sensory inputs, Los Angeles will be allowing you to help Lola Dompe or do your own bio-art project, Oakland will be continuing with their Open Insulin and fun fermentation projects, Somerville has a study group for a biology online study course , Sunnyvale continues work on their fluorescence microscope project, and Vancouver celebrates its one-year anniversary. On Thursday, Baltimore has a short workshop to develop pipette and plasma DNA isolation skills, Brooklyn has Dr David Putrino giving a talk on the Science of Human Performance, Cambridge plans for the creation of a biomakespace, Denver has a guest speaker Erika Stith talking about how biology will drive the future of space travel, Melbourne has guest presenter Dr Ken McGrath discussing  DNA sequencing, Shanghai has a synthetic biology conference, Shenzhen will be playing around with smartphones and microscopes to create 3-D micro and macro images,  Sunnyvale continues their bioprinting project, and Vancouver will be doing a workshop on restriction enzymes. On Friday, Austin is calling for citizen science projects in pursuit of a big prize, Baltimore has G. Thomas Caltagirone PhD giving a seminar on aptamer use in diagnostics and drug discovery, Shenzhen has a synthetic biology conference, and Sunnyvale has a brainstorming session on biotechnology and climate change.  On Saturday, Baltimore is looking for high school iGEM team members, Bethesda will be at the USA National Maker Faire, and Oakland will be doing a workshop on molecular dynamics simulation and continuing on their project of hacking microfluidics for use in space.

Sunday, June 12
Albany, NY, USA
Bethesda, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, June 14
Amsterdam, NTL
Beijing, CHN
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, June 15
Cambridge, GBR
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Vancouver, BC, USA

Thursday, June 16
Baltimore, MD, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, GBR
Denver, CO, USA
Melbourne, VIC, AUS
Shanghai, CHN
Shenzhen, GD, CHN
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Vancouver, BC, CAN

Friday, June 17
Austin, TX, USA
Baltimore, MD, USA
Shenzhen, GD, CHN
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, June 18
Baltimore, MD, USA
Bethesda, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Other events coming up

Monday, June 20
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Friday, June 24
Baltimore, MD, USA

Saturday, June 25
Austin, TX, USA
Baltimore, MD, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Sunday, June 26
Melbourne, VIC, AUS
Tel Aviv-Yafo, ISR

Monday, June 27
Oakland, CA, USA

Thursday, June 30
Denver, CO, USA

Saturday, July 9
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

To see when the next event is in your area, check the full list of usual suspects. Don’t see one near you? Why not have your own and get it posted here? Tell us about it by emailing events@diybio.org. It would be great to post some photos of your event somewhere. We’d love to see them. We do have some guidelines for what is posted, and are not capturing every event within the community.

DIYbio events for the week of June 5

June 4, 2016

scstowell

Here are your DIYbio events for the week.  On Sunday Oakland continues their Open Insulin project.  On Monday, its the last day to register for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) hackathon happening August 3-5, and Oakland together with Sunnyvale continue their work on Real Vegan Cheese.  On Tuesday Amsterdam starts their collaborative project cycle, with an emphasis this month on plants.  Also on Tuesday, Montreal has Daniel Modeulevsky discussing the use of apple cellulose as a biomaterial for organ scaffolds, and Sunnyvale continues their quantum salinity detector project.  On Wednesday, Cambridge has a workshop on arduinos and sensors, Oakland continues their fun fermentation and Open Insulin projects, and Sunnyvale continues their florescence microscope project.  On Thursday, Baltimore has a planning session to build a spectrometer for some purpose (let Ryan Hammond explain), Brooklyn has Alondra Nelson speaking about how DNA has wound itself into the heart of contemporary social issues around race, Somerville has Dr. Elissa Hobert presenting a paper about modified RNA (modRNA) and its applications for treating disease,  Sunnyvale continues their bioprinter project, and Toronto has a study group of the book Evolutionary Analysis as well as discussion of a supporting paper.  On Saturday Amsterdam has a workshop guided by Maja Smrekar, Spela Petric, Mary Tsang, and Byron Rich on extracting and deploying your own hormones,  Oakland continues with their evolved bacterial sunscreen project, Seattle will be having a workshop where you can build a SpikerBox to monitor the action potential of neurons, and Vancouver is at a Mini Maker Faire

Sunday, June 5
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, June 6
Bethesda, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday, June 7
Amsterdam, NTL
Montreal, QC, CAN
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, June 8
Cambridge, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, June 9
Baltimore, MD, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Saturday, June 11
Amsterdam, NTL
Oakland, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Vancouver, BC, CAN

Other events coming up

Sunday, June 12
Albany, NY, USA
Bethesda, MD, USA

Monday, June 13
Baltimore, MD, USA

Tuesday, June 14
Beijing, CN

Thursday, June 16
Baltimore, MD, USA
Denver, CO, USA
Melbourne, VIC, AUS
Shanghai, CN

Friday, June 17
Baltimore, MD, USA
Shenzhen, GD, CN

Monday, June 20
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Friday, June 24
Baltimore, MD, USA

Saturday, June 25
Baltimore, MD, USA

Sunday, June 26
Melbourne, VIC, AUS

Thursday, June 30
Denver, CO, USA

To see when the next event is in your area, check the full list of usual suspects. Don’t see one near you? Why not have your own and get it posted here? Tell us about it by emailing events@diybio.org. It would be great to post some photos of your event somewhere. We’d love to see them. We do have some guidelines for what is posted, and are not capturing every event within the community.

DIYbio events for the week of May 15

May 15, 2016

scstowell

Here are your DIYbio events for the week.  On Sunday, Cambridge has Simon Hong speaking about Memory, and Durham has a show and tell, where they will be discussing collaboration with the NEIHS.  On Monday, Brooklyn demonstrates PCR and barcoding (pizza is involved as well), Cambridge has talks by Vitor Pinheiro on directed evolution as a tool for synthetic biology, and Alexander Taylor on artificial genetic polymers.  Also on Monday, Oakland continues their work on Real Vegan Cheese.  On Wednesday, Charlottesville does a walk-through of speed dating, where they isolate the senses and adjust the order of exposure to the sensory input, Los Angeles offers you the opportunity to start your own bio-art project, or collaborate with Lola Dompe on one of hers, Oakland continues their fun fermentation and Open Insulin projects, Seattle discusses genetic circuitry, Sunnyvale continues their work on building a fluorescence microscope, and Toronto has another Bioengineering, bio-production, and painting with bio-pigments session. On Thursday, Amsterdam has their Hack the Brain pre-event, Cambridge, GBR continues discussions on building a makespace, Cambridge, MA hosts a new generation of biotech startups, and Montreal has a plasmid transformation workshop and open lab.  Also on Thursday, Oakland launches an international effort to put mRNA expression assay hardware in space, Sunnyvale continues their bioprinter project, and Toronto continues their series on Bioengineering.   On Friday, Oakland is at Maker Faire and Toronto continues with their Bioengineering series.  On Saturday, Brooklyn has a workshop where electricity generated by muscle activity is measured and harnessed to do fun things, and Seattle has Kaelan Yu conducting a workshop on soap making.

Sunday, May 15
Cambridge, MA, USA
Durham, NC, USA

Monday, May 16
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA

Wednesday, May 18
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Thursday, May 19
Amsterdam, NTL
Cambridge, GBR
Cambridge, MA, USA
Montreal, QC, CAN
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Friday, May 20
Oakland, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Saturday, May 21
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Seattle, WA, USA

Events coming up

Sunday, May 22
Montreal, QC, CAN
Seattle, WA, USA

Tuesday, May 24
Cambridge, MA, USA

Wednesday, May 25
Austin, TX, USA

Saturday,May 28
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Monday, May 30
Oakland, CA, USA
Tel Aviv-Yafo, ISR

Tuesday, June 14
Beijing, CN

Thursday, June 16
Shanghai, CN

Friday, June 17
Shenzhen, GD, CN

To see when the next event is in your area, check the full list of usual suspects. Don’t see one near you? Why not have your own and get it posted here? Tell us about it by emailing events@diybio.org. It would be great to post some photos of your event somewhere. We’d love to see them. We do have some guidelines for what is posted, and are not capturing every event within the community.