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Here are your DIYbio events for remainder of the week

Monday, January 9

Brooklyn, NY, USA Open Night: PCR & Pizza A relaxed night of science and discussion. Bring a sample of plant matter or isolate DNA from your saliva and see how easy DNA barcoding and PCR is.

San Francisco, CA, USA – Atomwise Deep Learning Reception at JPM  Deep learning is disrupting the life sciences. Meet fellow leaders and early adopters of this emerging   technology  Featured speakers are Ilya Sutskever, Abraham Heifets, Brendan Frey, and Ryan Bethencourt.

Oakland, CA, USA – Plant Bio Group   Plant biology and biotechnology group continues their meetings, welcoming those with an appreciation of plant biology that want to learn things

Tuesday, January 10

Denver, CO, USA – Biotools! Project Work Night  Work together on various hardware projects.  Initial projects will include a DNA concentration microvolume spectrophotometer, an electroporator, a bioreactor, and a DNA sequencer.

Durham, NC, USA – Deep Learning in the Life Sciences

Wednesday, January 11

Oakland, CA, USA – Open Source Open Insulin Project Come and help out with Open Insulin, or support it at experiment.com

Oakland, CA, USA – FermentationStation MycoFermentoOmniMondo  Oakland continues their fermentation experiments

Schenectady, NY – Eastern STNY’s Pub Science Series: Antarctic Science and Art Biologist Sam Bowser and artist Laura Von Rosk discuss their collaboration on the subject of agglutinated foraminifera– creatures that build artful shells using found objects. Other things as well will likely be covered

Somerville, MA, USA – Class: Basics of Biohacking 2 night introductory course that will guide you through the basics of molecular biology and the technique of bacterial transformation.  Class continues on Thursday, January 12

Vancouver, BC, CAN – OLW: Meet’n’Greet Orin Hardy of the Kul- Kul Farm, Bali   Orin Hardy discusses efforts to foster local and global community around the topics of permaculture, food, farming, and natural building

Sunnyvale, CA, USA – Building a Microscope  Join a multi-week hackathon, as Eric Harness leads the assembly of a fluorescing microscope.

Thursday, January 12

Baltimore, MD, USA – Lab Skills Night – Plasmid DNA Isolation  immersive hands on 2 hour course teaching you pipette skills and plasmid DNA isolation.  Additional material will be available to help understand concepts and basic biology of this technique and applications.

Cambridge, UK – Build a Biomakespace  Cambridge continues their discussions of meeting to plan for establishing a Biomakespace

Camden, NJ, USA – Inkjet bioprinting (Take 3)  Camden continues their bioprinting work by working on resolution and a cleaning protocol.

Durham, NC, USA – Deep Learning Study Group   Study group for Practical Deep Learning for Coders.

Hong Kong, CHN – Chocolate and Jam – an experiment Experiment in making jams with different flowers or fruits. We will also make jam chocolate. The goal is to develop a Bauhinia jam chocolate in the future, and barcode the DNA sequence of the jam

Melbourne, VIC, AUS – BioHacker Bootcamp – Engineering bacteria to glow  Andrew Gray launches of a course series to get you up to speed with various aspects of the life sciences. In this workshop you’ll be making bacteria fluoresce  learning about DNA and how its power can be harnessed, and becoming familiar with the everyday workflow in a wet lab

Sunnyvale, CA, USA – Bioprinter Community Project Night  Join in on building a bioprinter.

Friday, January 13

Baltimore, MD. USA – Seminar Night! Gigi Gronvall “Synthetic Biology: Safety, Security, and Promise”  Synthetic biology policy and security expert Gigi Gronvall talks about her book.

Singapore, SGP – Let’s meet to share about mprovised lab equipment and home experiments

Saturday, January 14

Baltimore, MD, USA -Mini workshop! Does it Glow? Or no?   Kathleen Gillepsie leads an exploration of  how well disinfectants work, using bioluminesent bacteria as a marker.

Seattle, WA, USA – Memories, Molecules and Medicine: An exploration of smell and essential oils  Explore the sense of smell and the molecules responsible for fragrances through this interactive workshop presented by Reitha Weeks.  Lots of topics covered

Other events coming up

Monday, January 16
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, January 17
Toronto, ON, CAN

Wednesday, January 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, Januuary 19
Denver, CO, USA
Durham, NC, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, January 21
Baltimore, MD, USA

Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Sunday, January 22
Albany, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Reston, VA, USA

Monday, January 23
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, January 24
Berlin, DEU

Wednesday, January 25
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, January 26
Cambridge, UK, USA
Denver, CO, USA
Durham, NC, USA

Sunday, January 29
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, January 30
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, January 31
Somerville, MA, 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 in the community.

Here are your DIYbio events for the week

On Sunday Durham has Edward Richards giving a talk  “Current Issues In Agricultural Biotechnology”, and Oakland continues on their Open Insulin project.

On Monday, Brooklyn continues DNA barcoding on their PCR and Pizza night, and has special guest designer and researcher Helena Steiner giving a presentation.  Cambridge has the  Cambridge iGEM team talking about their chloroplast engineering project and Michelle L. Oyen talking about biomimetic materials. Oakland continues with its Plant Bio Group, doing some air layering propagation yerba mate and an unidentified sycamore, and other projects.  Oakland will also be continuing their Real Vegan Cheese project.

On Tuesday, Brooklyn has Ali Schachtschneider leading a course on growing your own materials for fashion design, Cambridge has a discussion on sculpting evolution to meet global disease challenges, featuring Kevin Esvelt will introduce his work on gene drive systems and Luke Alphey will discussing his work in a company that was the first to release genetically modified male mosquitoes whose offspring fail to reproduce. Oslo has a festival, with  Pieter van Boheemen as a keynote, discussing practical implementation of his experiences in various organized biohack activities, together with conducting a workshop on DIY antibiotics. The festival also features a host of other biotech and medical cutting edge efforts.  Madison has Stefan Koehler reporting on his recent visit to a bio-hackerspace in Somerville, MA, USA, and Somerville has David Ng demonstrating his Petri Dish cell biology game Sunnyvale continues on their quantum salinity detector project.

On Wednesday Cambridge has Vincent Noireaux,  Nick Rollins, and  Fernan Federici  discussing synthetic gene circuit technology for paper-based diagnostics of diseases, Oakland continues with their fun fermentation and open insulin projects, Somerville has  Ben Thuronyi presenting and leading a discussion on a paper on Phage-assisted continuous evolution (PACE). Sunnyvale continues on their fluorescence microscope project.  Sydney has silicon vagabond Brennan Hatton showing off and playing around with A/V apps he created that make stereoscopic views of proteins

On Thursday, Baltimore is teaching the lab skill of gel electrophoresis and dna size separation, Oakland and Sunnyvale are collaborating on their bioprinter project,  Oakland also has data scientist Diman Todorov leading a 3 session series on Biostatistics for the Biohacker, and San Diego will be learning about a cutting edge ecological remediation company

On Friday, Washington, DC has Anthony Zader speaking on how next generation sequencing can be used to map out the wiring diagram of a mammalian brain inexpensively and efficiently

On Saturday Eindhoven begins Dutch Design Week, showcasing several biological materials and aesthetic concepts, including an exhibition curated by Jalila Essaidi.  In Seattle,  learn some polymer chemistry and Newtonian fluid physics while Kaelan Yu shows you how to make your own Halloween slime.

Finally, welcome to a new lab, Openlab in Brussels, Belgium!

Sunday, October 16
Durham, NC, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, October 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, October 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, UK
Madison, WI, USA
Oslo, NOR
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, October 19
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sydney, NSW, AUS

Thursday, October 20
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
San Diego, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Friday, Ocober 21
Washington, DC, USA

Saturday October 22- Sunday, October 30
Eindhoven, NTL

Saturday, October 22
Seattle, WA, USA

Other events coming up

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.