Posts by Jason Bobe
The DIYbio community has been featured in several major news outlets recently. Here is a round-up, with links to featured individuals and community labs:
- Ritchie S. King. “When Scientific Advances Begin at Home” New York Times, January 16, 2012. Featuring:
- Cathal Garvey
- Daniel Grushkin
- Genspace (Brooklyn NY)
- Charlie Schick
- Ellen D. Jorgensen
- Pui-Wing Tam. “‘Biohackers’ Get Their Own Space to Create” Wall Street Journal. January 12, 2012. Featuring:
- BioCurious (Mountain View, CA)
- Raymond McCauley
- George Church
- Ron Shigeta
- Patrik D’haeseleer
- “The rise of co-working. Setting desk jockeys free” The Economist. Dec 31, 2011. Featuring:
- BioCurious (Mountain View, CA)
The Kojo Nnamdi Show invited a few folks from the DIYbio community to have a discussion about the amateur biology movement. Appearing on the show was:
- David Rejeski: Director, Synthetic Biology Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Daniel Grushkin: Vice president and a founder of Genspace; Freelance Science Writer
- Jason Bobe: Co-founder of DIYbio.org; Executive Director of PersonalGenomes.org
More details about the program, or listen to the archived stream.
For those in the NYC area who are ready to roll-up your sleeves and learn new biotech skills, I received the following note from Ellen Jorgensen, President & Scientific Program Director at Genspace:
Genspace is repeating its popular Biotech Crash Course starting Sunday March 20th. It will run from 2PM to 6PM on three consecutive Sundays and cover all the basic techniques used to cut and manipulate DNA. This is a hands-on course where you will isolate DNA, cut it using restriction enzymes, amplify it using PCR, and clone it into bacteria. The cost for the course is $300. We have 12 slots available, with two at a special discounted student rate. Please let us know ASAP if you are interested, since we anticipate this session will fill up fast.
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