Here are your DIYbio events for the week.
On Sunday, Brooklyn begins its Biotechnology Crash Course, Cambridge has a series of flash presentations, Oakland continues their Open Insulin project, and Reston is building a bacteria incubator.
On Monday, Brooklyn begins their four session Biohacker Boot Camp, with special guest lecturer camera, mechatronic, biologic art/science hacker Marc Dusseiller, and Oakland continues their plant project education and brainstorming.
On Tuesday, Amsterdam has Špela Petrič, Mike Thompson, Susana Cámara Leret and Pei-Ying Lin collaborating on a workshop focusing on behavior and embodied experience as a way to reflect on codes of conduct and rituals (past, present, future) that can help with a deeper understanding and discussion of the current antibiotic crisis, Cambridge has bioart pioneer Joe Davis with his talk “Astrobiological Horticulture”, a multifaceted project to create organisms suited for survival in extraterrestrial environments, and Sunnyvale continues their Quantum Salinity Detector project.
On Wednesday, Ghent will show you how to grow edible mushrooms, Oakland continues their fun fermentation and Open Insulin projects, Sunnyvale continues their fluorescence microscope project, and Vancouver has an open lab night, featuring a workshop guided by Scott Pownall using legacy versions of software to create virtual DNA origami structures.
On Thursday Berlin has Ryan and Christian Fobel introducing an intense digital microfluidics hack session session, Bethesda will be attending a lecture in Washington, DC by Nadrian Seeman on programming DNA for a variety of other functions than than those in the the central dogma. Oakland and Sunnyvale collaborate on their bioprinter project, and Toronto has an informal workshop and study session on the molecular biology of the Arabidopsis mustard seed plant
On Friday, Denver has presentations from three Colorado, USA-based iGEM teams.
Finally, on Saturday, Berlin has Margherita Pevere conducting a workshop on growing cellulose, Oakland and Sunnyvale continue their collaboration on an evolved bacterial sunscreen, San Diego has an App-a-thon. (Seattle’s event has been cancelled due to weather concerns)
Also, a warm welcome to the fairly freshly founded Biotop in Heidelberg, BW, DEU. (H/T Ersin Sümer)
Sunday, October 9
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Reston, VA, USA
Monday, October 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, October 11
Amsterdam, NTL
Cambridge, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Wednesday, October 12
Ghent, BEL
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Vancouver, BC, CAN
Thursday, October 13
Berlin, DEU
Bethesda, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN
Friday, October 14
Denver, CO, USA
Saturday, October 15
Berlin, DEU
Oakland, CA, USA
San Diego, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Other events coming up
Sunday, October 16
Oslo, NOR
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, October 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, October 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Wednesday, October 19
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Thursday, October 20
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Friday, Ocober 21
Washington, DC, USA
Saturday October 22- Sunday, October 30
Eindhoven, NTL
Saturday, October 22
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunday, October 23
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Monday, October 24
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, October 25
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Wednesday, October 26
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Thursday, October 27
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Saturday, October 29
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sunday, October 30
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, October 31
Oakland, CA, USA
Saturday, November 5
Baltimore, MD, USA
Heidelburg, BW, DEU
Sunday, November 6
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Friday, November 11
Baltimore, MD, USA
Monday, November 14
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Thursday, November 17
New York, NY, USA
Monday, November 21
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Monday, December 4
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Friday, December 9
Baltimore, MD, USA
Monday, December 12
Brooklyn, NY, 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.