Here are your DIYbio events for the week of July 30
Sunday, July 30
Brooklyn, NY, USA – Summer Ferments Cheryl Paswater guides exploration and craft of two delicious types of vegetable ferments that are easily made at home without any special ingredients or equipment.
Brooklyn, NY, USA – Fungi Fabrication: Mycelium Materials. Work with mycelium as material for experimental design applications. Grow a variety of samples, starting from a store bought mushroom, to mycelium grown using experimental techniques, to shaping molds to form mycelium composite materials grown to shapee. In this 3-session course, Ali Schachtschneider helps you gain skills and insight into potential applications for fungi based materials—walking away with new knowledge, mycelium tissue-culture skills, and grown material samples.
Oakland, CA, USA – Open Insulin Lab Day. The Open Insulin Project continues.
Ottowa, ON, CAN – Open House! See Ottowa’s biohackerspace
Tuesday, August 1
Cambridge, UK Biomakespace Introduction & Tour (for prospective members)
Cambridge, UK Low tech Microfluidics [Hands-on Session] Biomakespace Building your own low tech microfluidics using just plastic and paper and discuss wax paper, paper tape and plastic tape microfluidics.
Longwood, FL, USA – Open House
Oakland, CA, USA – Art of Science, Science of Art Show, tell and share anything that you are interested in relating to the intersection of art with science, math and engineering.
San Diego, CA, USA – Shooting Stars from Mars-Solving the Mystery With Oxygen Isotope Forensics Learn about how Dr. Robina Shaheen is using chemistry to investigate one of the biggest mysteries of nature- the origin and history of the Red Planet.
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Quantum Biology-Community Project Work continues on a quantum salinity detector (Surface Plasmon Salinity Detector)
Wednesday, August 2
Charlottesville, VA, USA – Biohack Meeting Work on egg fertilization outside the shell, as well as Green Wall and Virtual Reality teaching programs continues
Oakland, CA, USA – Open Source Insulin Project The Open Insulin Project continues
Oakland, CA, USA – FermentationStation MycoFermentoOmniMondo Various fun fermentations of foodstuffs to produce beverages, etc 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.
Somerville, MA, USA – Open House
Thursday, August 3
Denver, CO, USA – Guests Speaker: Charlie Kirkham – An Introduction to Ecology! A tour through the powerful world of ecology: its features, its influence on our lives, and the benefits understanding it offers.
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Bioprinter Community Project Night. The project to develop live cell printing continues.
San Francisco, CA, USA – Consumer Bio-design Showcase & Orbella Moss Launch Celebration Come see various bio-designed products, including the launch of a scented air product made by moss in a terrarium
Seattle, WA, USA – Lightning Science Talks at SoundBio Six scientists from University of Washington will share stories about how a glowing jellyfish led to a Nobel Prize, why personal data collection is changing the way we view ourselves, how recent technical advances are allowing us to ask new questions in biology, and more.
Friday, August 4
Baltimore, MD, USA – Free Seminar Night! “Black Fungi Getting us to Space” Dr. Cordero! Radames J. B. Cordero discusses his studies of fungal melanin, and how it might help provide relief from some of the environmental stressors associated with Mars, and perhaps our future planet, as well as other properties and technologies.
Singapore, Singapore – Let’s meet to share about improvised lab equipment and home experiments
Saturday, August 5
Austin, TX, USA – Aquaponics Engineering learn how aquaponic systems have been improved to do more and cost less. Free class presented by Jason Avent.
Brooklyn, NY, USA – Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9 Intense hands-on 4-session course to edit the genome of brewers yeast, led by Will Shindel
Cambridge, UK – Water Monitoring (build a 3-d printed microscope)
Seattle, WA, USA – Heart & Blood Workshop Learn about blood, some of its functions, how it is moved around in different organisms, and cardiac electrophysiology, with a focus on our own system. Lecture and lab material are provided to learn blood and transport systems, how to determine your hematocrit, typing your own blood, microscopic evaluation of our white blood cells, origin of heart sounds, use of a stethoscope, dissection of a mammalian four-chambered heart, cardiac electrophysiology, and performing an ECG.
San Diego, CA, USA – Under the Sea and ‘Scope: Workshop at the La Jolla Riford Library A look at sea urchin development, with scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography: You’ll get to handle live sea stars and urchins, observe fertilization and development under the microscope, and learn about the research activities at SIO.
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Lab Skills 101: Intro to the Lab Get introduced to the basics of the working in the Sunnyvale lab. This is required before taking on lab work there.
Santa Clara, CA, USA – Lecture on Advanced Molecular Detection at the CDC The chief science officer for the CDC’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection, Duncan MacCannel gives what should be quite a talk.
Other events coming up
Sunday, August 6
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Monday, August 7
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Tuesday, August 8
Brooklyn, NY, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Saturday, August 12
Brooklyn, NY, USA
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
Friday, September 22 – Sunday, September 24
Cambridge, MA, USA
Tuesday, September 26 (13 weeks) APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 1 Amsterdam, Netherlands
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 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.
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