Announcing DIYbiosphere: an open source project to connect DIYbio related activities worldwide
March 17, 2018
Jason Bobe
With significant growth in activities globally, our /local page has strained to keep up and simply is not a great representation of the the larger community. So we’re happy to unveil this alpha system at sphere.diybio.org. You can get involved in shaping it.
Our aim with DIYbiosphere is to make it easier for the community to share structured information about projects and organizations. It’s a venue for community members to help raise awareness about opportunities to get involved in various activities and to provide those activities with context across the larger movement.
By adopting Github as the backend platform and using simple markdown-based entries, we hope this approach is a convenient way for members of the community to collaborate on the development of this shared information resource.
We hope you’ll check out the site. There you’ll find information about:
- community labs
- projects
- incubators
- start-ups
- networks
- events
- local groups
- other (for the misfits)
Is your project or organization represented? If you feel something is missing or incorrect, we invite you to contribute! Social commentator Jenny Reardon has noted that we live in an era in which:
“Nothing endures; all is ‘in-formation.'”
As such, we’ll need many hands to help shape the formation of this community over time!
And while it’s a bit recursive, this project does have it’s own project page on DIYbiosphere. 🙂
DIYbiosphere is hosted by the nonprofit DIYbio.org.
Here are your events for the week
Sunday, September 3
Oakland, CA, USA – Open Insulin Lab Day Work on the Open Insulin project continues
Monday, September 4
Santa Clara and Oakland, CA, USA – Synthetic Biology, Biohacking, and Cheese – Real Vegan Cheese team meeting. Collaboration between two biohackspaces continues on Real Vegan Cheese
Tuesday, September 5
La Jolla, CA, USA – MicroRNAs: One biologist’s junk is another cell’s regulatory molecule.  Julia Nussbacher talks about what high throughput sequencing and computational biology can can say about the function of some of what was formerly termed “junk” DNA; the portion that codes for micro RNA.
Oakland, CA, USA – The Art of Science, The Science of Art Show, tell and share anything that you are interested in relating to the intersection of art with science, math and engineering.
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Quantum Biology – Community Project
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Cuttle Wranglin’: Studying the RNA Editing capabilities of the Dwarf Cuttlefish Help to design experiments to perform genome and transcriptome analysis of dwarf cuttlefish, ultimately leading to the identification of highly edited RNA transcripts.
Seattle, WA, USA Citizen Salmon Project Work continues on genotyping the salmon of the Pacific Northwest
Wednesday, September 6
Brooklyn, NY, USA – Epigentics Talk by Andrew Abrams Its not just about DNA. In this talk, Andrew Abrams guides an exploration of what we mean by epigenetics, why it is so important, and how we might be able to harness it for a healthier future.
Oakland, CA, USA – Open Source Insulin Project Work continues on open source insulin
Oakland, CA, USA – FermentationStation MycoFermentoOmniMondo –Â Fun fermentation continues
Santa Clara, CA – Microfluidics:’Lab on a Chip’Â Eric Harness guides development of lab analysis automation hardware at the micro and nano level.
Thursday, September 7
Brooklyn, NY, USA Grand Opening Party for Biotech without Borders – Join cofounders Dr. Ellen Jorgensen, Megan Wallner, and Dr. Kumar Vadaparty as they celebrate the opening of a state-of-the art BSL2 facility that will support early proof-of-concept work and bioentrepreneurship, training and mentoring of students and teachers, and will hold advanced biotech classes and group projects open to the general public
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Bioprinter Community Project The project to build a living cell printer continues
Friday, September 8 – 10
Munich, BY, DEU – TECHFEST Munich 2017 – More than a hackathon! The synbio group is getting together latest microfluidics together with the phage therapy experts and add a whole bunch of Biosensors to automate phage therapy in order to solve the antibiotic crisis. You must register.
Sunday, September 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cincinatti, OH, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Reston, VA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Monday, September 11
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, September 12
Charlotteswille, VA, USA
Menlo, Park, CA, USA
Wednesday, September 13
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Thursday, September 14
Buenos Aires, ARG
San Francisco, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Saturday, September 16
Hong Kong, CHN
La Jolla, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Sunday, September 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, September 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, September 19
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Wednesday, September 20
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Thursday, September 21
Portland, OR, USA
San Diego, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Friday, September 22 – Sunday, September 24
Cambridge, MA, USA
Saturday, September 23
San Diego, CA, USA
Sunday, September 24
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Stockholm, Sweden
Monday, September 25
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, September 25-Thursday September 28
Boston, MA, USA
Tuesday, September 26
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Wednesday, September 27
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Thursday, September 28
London, UK
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Friday, September 29
Erlangen BY, DEU
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunday, September 30
Hong Kong, CHN
Saturday, October 7
Hong Kong, CHN
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sunday, October 8
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Saturday, October 21
Hong Kong, CHN
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 events for the remainder of the week
Monday, August 28
Oakland, CA, USA – Plant Bio Group
Somerville, MA, USA – DIY Biology on Tap!: BosLab Fundraiser Learn about and support DIY bio, all while drinking beer!
Tuesday, August 29
Cambridge, UK – The Art of Microscopy [Lab it Tuesday] at the Biomakespace Ben Dobson (the Microscope Man) will introduce his wonderful artwork
Ottawa, ON, CAN – Biotown is turning one!
Wednesday, August 30
Cambridge, UK – Biomaker Challenge August Meetup Get help or help out with the Biomaker Challenge. Activities include using the Gtronics Proto Shield Plus with Arduino, using the 4D Systems Display Programmable Touchscreen , and a general discussion
Charlottesville, VA – BioHack Meeting – New Toy! Play with a miniION!
Oakland, CA, USA – Open Source Insulin Project The Open Insulin Project continues
Oakland, CA, USA – FermentationStation MycoFermentoOmniMondo Fun fermentations continue
Oakland, CA, USA – Protein Modeling, Lecture 4 Â Noel Carrascal leads the another no-nonsense lecture, this week working on insulin.
Renens, VD, CHE – #OH165: 3rd year BIRTHDAY! A big celebration!
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Micofluidics: ‘Lab-on-a-chip’Â Eric Harness guides development of lab analysis automation hardware at the micro and nano level.
Thursday, August 31
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Bioprinter Community Project Night Work continues on building a printer for living cells
Friday, September 1
Singapore – Let’s meet to share about improvised lab equipment an home experiments
Saturday, September 2
Cambridge, UK – Science Makers: Biomaker Challenge Co-working (all welcome) Learn about or advise Biomaker Challenge participants. Includes project lightning talks: quick intros to projects from Biomaker Challenge and further afield and requests for help and feeback.
Hong Kong, CHN – DNA Bar Code Workshop (insects)Â In depth DNA barcoding workshop of insects, over 2 day, September 2 and 9
Oakland CA, USA Lab Skills 101: Intro to the Lab! See what kind of equipment CCL has and what it’s used for. Learn also how to dispose of biowaste, order reagents, and *ahem* any “quirks” the donated equipment may have 🙂 A must take class if you want to work in the lab
Zurich, CHE, – Erforschen Sie als Citizen Scientists Ihren Geruchs- und Geschmackssinn   Jeder und jede von uns nimmt GerĂĽche und Geschmäcker unterschiedlich wahr. FĂĽr bestimmte Aromen sind diese Unterschiede besonders ausgeprägt und stark durch unsere Gene bestimmt. Der Workshop gibt eine kurze EinfĂĽhrung in die aktuelle Forschung in diesem Bereich und beschreibt wie Sie als Citizen Scientist (forschender BĂĽrger) einen wichtigen Beitrag zu dieser Forschung leisten können.
Other events coming up
Sunday, September 3
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, September 4
Santa Clara and Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, September 5
La Jolla, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Wednesday, September 6
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA
Thursday, September 7
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Friday, September 8
Munich, BY, DEU
Sunday, September 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cincinatti, OH, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Reston, VA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Monday, September 11
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, September 12
Menlo, Park, CA, USA
Wednesday, September 13
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Thursday, September 14
Buenos Aires, ARG
San Francisco, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Saturday, September 16
La Jolla, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Sunday, September 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, September 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, September 19
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Wednesday, September 20
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Thursday, September 21
San Diego, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Friday, September 22 – Sunday, September 24
Cambridge, MA, USA
Saturday, September 23
San Diego, CA, USA
Sunday, September 24
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Monday, September 25
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, September 25-Thursday September 28
Boston, MA, USA
Tuesday, September 26
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Wednesday, September 27
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Thursday, September 28
London, UK
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Friday, September 29
Erlangen BY, DEU
Seattle, WA, USA
Saturday, October 7
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sunday, October 8
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 in the community.
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