Here are your DIYbio events for the week. On Monday, Baltimore has Claire Fraser speaking on the human gut microbiome in collaborations with the “culture as medium” series. On Tuesday, Amsterdam does its projects, Cambridge is helping with a synthetic biology workshop in London, San Diego will be having a lecture called “Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease Using Human Stem Cells” by Dr Jessica Young. On Wednesday London begins a big 3-day conference, Oakland continues work on their Open Insulin and fermentation projects, Sunnyvale continues to work on its fluorescence microscope, and Vancouver is going to a panel discussion of the microbiome, moderated by Linda Aylesworth, with Bill Mohn, Brett Finlay, and Deborah Money, MD. On Thursday, London continues the conference, and Somerville attends a microbiome event. On Friday, Buenos Aires has an bioart event of mingling and experimentation with microbial fuel cells, London continues the conference, Sunnyvale has a hands on workshop on engineering bacteria with CRISPR/Cas9, and Seattle is attending a comicon, where founder Bergen McMurray will participate in a discussion about the mutually influential relationship between technology and science fiction. On Saturday, Bethesda is checking out a space, Brooklyn carries on a intensive 4-session class on CRISPR/Cas9, Buenos Aires is having a meeting on bio-hacking, Cambridge has a conference (bundled ticket price gives a break on the London conference), Oakland has a hands-on workshop on engineering bacteria with CRISPR/Cas9, Stockholm has a biomakers conference, and Sunnyvale has an event on DNA bar-coding.
Monday, April 4
Baltimore, MD, USA
Tuesday, April 5
Amsterdam, NLD
Cambridge, GBR
London, GBR
San Diego, CA, USA
Wednesday, April 6
London, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Vancouver, BC, CAN
Thursday, April 7
London, GBR
Somerville, MA, USA
Friday, April 8
Buenos Aires, ARG
London, GBR
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Saturday, April 9
Bethesda, MD, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Buenos Aires, ARG
Cambridge, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Stockholm, SWE
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Events coming up
Monday, April 11
Toronto, ON, USA
Thursday, April 14
Ljubljana, SVN
Friday, April 15
Baltimore, MD, USA
Saturday, April 16
Austin, TX, USA
Saturday, April 30
Toronto, ON, CAN
Wednesday, May 18
Austin, TX, USA
Thursday, May 19
Amsterdam, NLD
Friday – Sunday, June 24-26
Amsterdam, NLD (Register now)
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.