Here are your DIYbio events for the week

Sunday, August 20

Cincinnati, OH, USA – Science Book Club – The Gene: An Intimate History  Siddhartha Mukherjee’s  book is disussed

Honk Kong – We are at the Citizen Science Faire Last day of the faire.  Check out the booth and workshop!

Oakland, CA, USA – Open Insulin Lab Day  The Open Insulin project continues.

Monday, August 21

Cambridge, UK – Cafe Synthetique: Graduate Talks Quite a range of talks on synthetic biology including improvement of timber (Jan Lyczakowski), developing expression systems for chemicals produced by algae (Patrick Hickland), algal synthetic biology (Stefan Grossfurthner), creation of genetic circuits in an algae using proteins (Aleix Gorchs-Rovira), machine learning and automation (Clayton Rabideau), and cell-free arsenic sensing (Sensor CDT Students).

Oakland, CA, USA – Sythetic Biology, Biohacking and Cheese team meeting – Real Vegan Cheese team meeting  Collaboration continues on the Real Vegan Cheese project.

Tuesday, August 22

Brooklyn, NY, USA – DIYbio incubator: Build Your Own Incubator  Piym Fernando and Cassandra Barrett show you how to build a low-cost incubator including basic electronics and Arduino programming. The newly constructed DIY incubator will then be used to run an experiment!

Cambridge, UK – Going deeper with deep sequencing and deep learning[Lab it Tuesday]Biomakespace A talk by Tiong Sun Chia.  The first part of the talk gives an overview of deep learning, explaining what it is and how it works. The second part will review this paper.

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Cuttle Wranglin’: Studying RNA Editing of Dwarf Cuttlefish Dive deep into the genome of Sepia bandensis (dwarf cuttlefish). Effort is to identify highly edited RNA transcripts and find a correlation between changing environmental conditions and RNA editing capabilities.

Wednesday, August 23

Vancouver, BC, CAN – Introducing Bio Academy Scott Pownall a graduate of the 2016 How To Grow (Almost) Anything (HTGAA) Synthetic Biology program will talk about his experience and what to look forward to in this years program.

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Microfluidics: ‘Lab on a Chip’ Eric Harness guides development of lab analysis automation hardware at the micro and nano level.

Oakland, CA, USA – Open Insulin Project  The project to make open source insulin continues.

Oakland, CA, USA – FermentationStation MycoFermentoOmniMondo Fun fermentation continues

Thursday, August 24

Brooklyn, NY, USA – Genomic Lecture w/ Chris Mason: Designing genomes for Earth, Mars, & beyond  Learn about work on a ten-phase, 500-year plan for the survival of the human species on Earth, in space, and on other planets.

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Bioprinter Community Project Night  The effort to build a live cell printer continues.

Somerville, MA, USA – BosLab Book Club: The Discovery of Insulin Presentation and discussion of the book by Michael Bliss

Friday, August 25

Seattle, WA, USA Bionic Leaf Open Discussion  Biomimetics discussion in general to get interested individuals to help build a bionic leaf kit

Friday, August 25 – Saturday Aug 26

Oakland, CA, USA Biohack the Planet Come to a conference run by Biohackers, designed for Biohackers, with amazing talks solicited from Biohackers

Other events coming up

Sunday, August 27
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, MA, USA
Reston, VA, USA
Tel Aviv, ISR

Monday, August 28
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA

Tuesday, August 29
Ottawa, ON, CAN

Wednesday, August 30
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Renens, VD, CHE –  #OH165: 3rd year BIRTHDAY!  A big celebration!
Santa Clara, CA, USA

Thursday, August 31
Santa Clara, CA, USA

Tuesday, September 5
La Jolla, CA, USA

Friday, September 8
Munich, BY, DEU

Sunday, September 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA

Sunday, September 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Friday, September 22 – Sunday, September 24
Cambridge, MA, USA

Saturday, September 23
San Diego, CA, USA

Tuesday, September 26 (13 weeks) APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 1 Amsterdam, NTL

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 remainder of the week

Monday, August 14

Brooklyn, NY, USA – Biotextiles: Grow your own material for fashion design Today’s biolab is becoming tomorrow’s design studio. Fashion designers have grown materials, garments and accessories from bacteria, yeast, fungi, human bone, synthetic spider silk, and more. In this two-part introduction to biotextiles, artist Ali Schachtschneider guides you on how to grow fabrics from microbes and then use natural and bioengineered bacteria to dye them.

Oakland CA, USA – Plant Bio Group

Seattle, WA, USA – Maker Faire – Working Session  Maker Faire prep session, focusing on building our “living sign” that will be on and shining above the table through the event.

Tuesday, August 15

Cambridge, UK – Connectomics in the Fly Brain  Kimberly Meechan gives a talk on the science of mapping of the connections between different parts of the brain.  She works on an international effort at the mapping of the fruit fly brain, which will be the largest map ever collected to date at synaptic resolution.

Guadalajara, JA, MEX – 2⁰ Aniversario y Hola CDMX

Wednesday, August 16

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Microfluidics: ‘ Lab on a Chip’   Eric Harness guides development of lab analysis automation hardware at the micro and nano level.

Montreal, QC, CAN – Wednesday Lab Hangout @Helios   Continue building an epic algae growing reactor!

Oakland, CA, USA – Open Source Insulin Project – The Open Insulin Project continues

Oakland, CA, USA – FermationStation MycoFermentoOmniMondo Fun fermentation continues.

Oakland, CA, USA Protein Modelling, Lecture 2  Basic skills and tools to model proteins, focusing on the essential,  cutting all that fat of a typical curricula.  Those that missed earlier lectures will be brought up to speed.

Thursday, August 17

Hong Kong – We are at the Citizen Science Faire Check out Hong Kong’s biohackspace  booth at the Citizen Science Faire, as they carry on workshops.  They will be there August 17 – 20.

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Bioprinter Community Project The project to develop live cell printing continues.

Munich, BY, DEU – SynBio Stammtisch München Special guest Eddy from deskgen.com is running the SynBio London

Friday, August 18

Baltimore, MD, USA OPEN “MIC” NIGHT at BUGSS Tell YOUR Science Story (or listen and learn!)  –  As a speaker, practice to communicate your research or area of interest!  As an audience member, learn about the community of discovery and innovation in the Baltimore area

Saturday, August 19

Brooklyn, NY, USA – Bioinformatics The first of a two sessions guided by Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff. This first session is an introduction to DNA sequencing and analysis. The next session (on Sunday August 19) focuses on the exploration of organisms around you through metagenomics.

Oakland, CA, USA – Vegan Cheese workshop Experiment with different recipes for making soy and cashew based vegan cheeses!

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Teens Teaching Teens – PCR and Gel Electrophoresis The basics of biology and biotechnology and then some PCR and Gel Electrophesis.

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Lecture on Advanced Molecular Detection at the CDC   Guest speaker Duncan MacCannell is the chief science officer for the CDC’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (OAMD), where he coordinates the implementation and support of pathogen genomics, bioinformatics, high-performance computing and other innovative laboratory technologies across the CDC’s four infectious disease centers.

San Diego, CA, USA – Personal Genomics A Matter of Taste: Workshop at the La Jolla Riford Library  In this hands-on workshop, we will explore the genetics of perception and test our own DNA for a bitter taste receptor.

Tuesday, August 22
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, UK

Thursday, August 24
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Somerville, MA, USA

Friday, August 25
Seattle, WA, USA

Friday August 25 – Saturday August 26
Oakland, CA, USA

Sunday, August 27
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, MA, USA
Reston, VA, USA
Tel Aviv, ISR

Wednesday, August 30
Renens, VD, CHE –  #OH165: 3rd year BIRTHDAY!  A big celebration!

Sunday, September 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA

Sunday, September 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Friday, September 22 – Sunday, September 24
Cambridge, MA, USA

Saturday, September 23
San Diego, CA, USA

Tuesday, September 26 (13 weeks) APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 1 Amsterdam, NTL

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 week.

Sunday, August 6

Brooklyn, NY, USA – Biotech Crash Course Introductory intense hands-on course led by Julie Wolf covers the basic techniques that facilitated the biotechnology revolution, and will show you where it is headed in the near future.

Oakland, CA, USA- Open Insulin Lab Day The Open Insulin Project continues

Tokyo, JPN – Tokyo Maker Faire 2017 See various DIYbio groups at the Maker Faire event

Monday, August 7

Brooklyn, NY, USA – PCR and Pizza at Biotech Without Borders   Biotech Without Borders is holding its first PCR and Pizza event to inaugurate the new lab. Pizza and beer and talking science.  Extract your own DNA and do a PCR-based test for a genomic mutation in the CCR5 gene.

Oakland and Santa Clara, CA, USA Synthetic Biology, Biohacking, and Cheese – Real Vegan Cheese team meeting  The Real Vegan Cheese project collaboration between two biohackspaces continues

San Francisco, CA, USA – Regenerating the Body – Cell by Cell Come hear the latest in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine from three companies in the field, as well as what challenges lie ahead.  Ryan Bonvillain, Nicholas Pashos, and Drew Titmarsh are the featured speakers

Tuesday, August 8

Brooklyn, NY, USA = Brooklyn Barcodes: Open Night  Get hands-on lab experience and learn how to read the code of life. BYOS (Bring Your Own Sample).

San Francisco, CA, USA – Microbiome and Agriculture  Networking, pitches, and a panel discussion on the intersection of the microbiome and agriculture. Hear from senior leaders at some of the microbiome companies changing the field.

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Cuttle Wranglin’: Studying RNA Editing of Dwarf Cuttlefish Dive deep into the genome of Sepia bandensis (dwarf cuttlefish).  Perform genome and transcriptome analysis of this species, ultimately leading to the identification of highly edited RNA transcripts, while trying to find a correlation between changing environmental conditions and RNA editing capabilities.

Seattle, WA, USA – Citizen Salmon Project By connecting the information about a salmon’s genes and where they were born, we are developing a tool citizen scientists can use to determine the origin of the salmon on their plate.

Tokyo, JPN – Weekly Meeting Hendrik-Jan Grievink (Next Nature Network) Hendrik-Jan Grievink from Next Nature Network will talk about his latest project ‘Ectogenesis, Artificial Womb, Human Egg’: how will technology influence reproduction, sexuality and relationships in the future?

Wednesday, August 9

Oakland, CA, USA – FermationStation MycoFermentoOmniMondo Fun fermentation continues.

Oakland, CA, USA – Open Source Insulin Project   The Open Insulin Project continues

Santa Clara, CA, USA – Microfluidics: ‘Lab-on-a-Chip’    Eric Harness guides development of lab analysis automation hardware at the micro and nano level.

Thursday, August 10

Baltimore, MD, USA – Lab Skills Night! – Plasma DNA Isolation!  Learn pipette skills plasma dna isolation through a hands-on 2-hour session

Munich, BY, DEU – SynBio Stammtisch München  Learn, discuss, and collect synthetic biology information here

Saturday, August 12

Brooklyn, NY, USA – Second Saturdays: DNA Barcoding  Get hands-on lab experience and learn how to read the code of life. BYOS (Bring Your Own Sample).

Oakland, CA, USA – Weekly Class Series – Learn Something New

Other events coming up

Monday, August 14
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland CA, USA

Saturday, August 19
Brooklyn, NY, USA
San Diego, CA, USA

Tuesday, August 22
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Thursday, August 24
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Somerville, MA, USA

Friday August 25 – Saturday August 26
Oakland, CA, USA

Sunday, August 27
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, MA, USA
Tel Aviv, ISR

Sunday, September 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA

Sunday, September 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Friday, September 22 – Sunday, September 24
Cambridge, MA, USA

Tuesday, September 26 (13 weeks) APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 1 Amsterdam, NTL

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.