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DIYbio events for the remainder of the week beginning January 11

January 12, 2016

scstowell

Here are your DIYbio events for the remainder of the week. On Tuesday, Amsterdam continues its open wetlab projects, New York has a discussion focused on better medical diagnosis that can systematically take into account data and testing, without over simplification (Occam’s Razor) approaches more typically used today. and Oakland has a free beer and pizza social. On Wednesday, Vancouver has a workshop foundation laying talk on plasmids, vectors, and cloning. On Thursday, Denver is having their one-year anniversary party, featuring a talk by Scott Fullbright, who will speak about Living Ink, and Toronto has a discussion of the book Paleofantasy : what evolution really tells us about sex, diet, and how we live. On Friday Baltimore is having a microfluidics talk by Dr Gregory Cooksey. On Saturday, Seattle is having a workshop that explores the effects of fragrances and essential oils, and San Diego has a hands-on workshop to test DNA in people for a bitter taste receptor.

Tuesday, January 12
Amsterdam, NE
New York, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Wednesday, January 13
Vancouver, BC, CAN

Thursday, January 14
Denver, CO, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Friday, January 15
Baltimore, MD, USA

Saturday, January 16
Seattle, WA, USA
San Diego, CA, USA

Other events coming up

Monday, January 18
San Francisco, CA, USA

Saturday, January 23
Malatya, MA, TUR

Monday, January 25
Cambridge, MA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, January 26
Cambridge, UK
Amsterdam, NE
Minneapolis, MN, 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 beginning January 3

January 3, 2016

scstowell

Here are your DIYbio events for the week. Monday through Wednesday, Washington, DC is hosting a genomics hackathon. On Monday Oakland and Sunnyvale are having team meetings for their Real Vegan Cheese project. On Tuesday, Stockholm is planning the Swedish Bio-makers Conference for 2016, and Vilnius is meeting to start MIT’s edX Principles of Synthetic Biology online course, On Wednesday, Durham is meeting for the MIT course, Oakland is doing more fermentation and the Open Insulin Project, Sunnyvale is meeting to continue building a flourescing microscope, and Seattle is having a talk on recognizing the bacteria in your environment. On Thursday, Somerville is holding a study session for the MIT online course, Oakland is having a mushroom lab night, as well as an Intro to Bioinformatics workshop and Sunnyvale continues their bio-printer community project. On Friday, Los Angeles has Alexis Gambis as he screens and discusses his feature film “The Fly Room” about genetic pioneer Calvin Bridges and his daughter Betsey. On Saturday, Oakland continues work on bacterial sunscreen and conducts an introduction to synthetic biology, San Diego continues their bioinformatics study group, Longwood continues to work on their lab.