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Here are your DIYbo events for this week. On Sunday, Oakland and Sunnyvale are at a Makerfaire in San Mateo.  On Tuesday, Ljubljana tastes their beer and kombucha beer, and  Oakland hosts Mike Deweese as he talks about how attention is focused through neural attention networks,  On Wednesday, Barcelona will be giving a DIYbio talk.  Charlottesville is holding a synthetic biology crash course, and Oakland is speaking at an event in San Francisco. On Friday, Brooklyn hosts Dr Susana Martinez-Conde and Dr Stephen L Macknik as they talk about the neuroscience of illusions.  On Saturday, Bethesda hosts a talk on DNA origami by Tom Heiman, Seattle has a brain dissection led by Bergen McMurray, and  Sunnyvale hosts a workshop for ages  on building a hydrometer.

Sunday, May 17
San Mateo, CA

Tuesday, May 19
Ljubljana, SVN
Oakland, CA

Wednesday, May 20
Barcelona, ESP
Charlottesville, VA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA

Friday, May 22
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Saturday, May 23
Bethesda, MD, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
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.

Here are your DIYbo events for this week.  On Monday, Oakland is having a meeting of the Vegan Cheese Team, Toronto is having a discussion on the recent paper CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes, that has made a rather large splash.  On Thursday Brooklyn hosts a talk by John Borghi separating the fact from fiction in modern cutting edge neuroscience.  On Friday, Washington, DC is hosting an interview of some shifty guy.  On Saturday in Baltimore Michael Weirzbicki leads a 5-day intensive course on engineering bacteria to produce fine banana scented isoamyl acetate, as an introduction to introduce bacterial chemical production, and Oakland and Sunnyvale are in San Mateo for a Maker Faire.

Monday, May 11
Oakland, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Thursday, May 14
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Friday, May 15
Washington, DC, USA

Saturday, May 16
Baltimore, MD, USA
San Mateo, CA, USA

Here are videos from Baltimore’s Bioprinting Breakout event on April 25.  I was there.  It was a blast!

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.

Here is your summary of weekly DIYbio related events, around the world.  On Sunday, in Brussels,  Meridith might be hosting a meeting of biohackers.  Email her for details.  In Paris there is an ocean hackathon.  On Monday, Edmonton might have a synthetic biology workshop.  On Wednesday, Brussels is having some talks by Jonathan Ferooz, Carlos Peña, Martina Francesca Ferracane, and Tom Van Oudenaarden, Denver holds a workshop on how to look critically at published biologic papers, with the example of aging, and Moscow is taking a trip to the Polytech Lab. On Thursday, Berkeley is having a protocol hackathon, while enjoying a cocktails, etc, Carlsbad is having some fun with a simplified fluorescence microscope, Denver has Martin Borscht Jensen speaking on the Biology of Aging, and Toronto is doing some directed evolution of bacteria.

Sunday, April 26
Brussels, BEL
Paris, FR

Monday, April 26
Edmonton, AB, CAN

Wednesday, April 29
Brussels, BEL
Denver, CO, USA
Moscow, RUS

Thursday, April 30
Berkeley, CA, USA
Carlsbad, CA, USA
Denver, CO, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Other events coming up soon

Tuesday, May 5
San Diego, 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.