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Here is your summary of weekly DIYbio related events, around the world.  On Monday, Brooklyn begins their Biohacker Bootcamp, and Denver gets into the wetlab, working with microscopes  On Tuesday, Bethesda is holding hands-on workshops on the use of the use of NCBI databases and BLAST, and Amsterdam has a talk by Adam Brown.  On Wednesday, Baltimore has a talk and luncheon with Ellen Jorgensen, and  Stockholm needs help moving equipment they recently acquired to their makerspace.  On Thursday, Moscow has a welcoming session to get some DIY bio going, and Denver is holding sessions on learning Python through doing Rosalind problems.  On Friday, Toronto has a video series on Understanding Genetics, together with a roundup of some current events.  On Saturday, Baltimore has a workshop on customizing control software for bio-printing, guided by Ryan Hoover, Barcelona is at the Novum Festival showing off some recently built hardware and doing a number of fun activities, Oakland is inviting people to come join the Bay Area Biohackers iGEM Team, and Somerville has a Biohacking Hello World course.

Monday, April 13
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Denver, CO, USA

Tuesday, April 14
Bethesda, MD, USA
Amsterdam, NLD

Wednesday, April 15
Baltimore, MD, USA
Stockholm, SWE

Thursday, April 16
Moscow, RUS
Denver, CO, USA

Friday, April 17
Toronto, ON, CAN

Saturday, April 18
Baltimore, MD, USA
Barcelona, ESP
Oakland, CA USA
Somerville, MA, USA

Here are some pics from Brooklyn’s Hot Science for Kids events this last week, snatched off  Ellen Jorgensen’s @FeyScientist tweets. 

Who Stole the Goldfish crime scene and analysis

Taking a look at different kinds of hair

Anesthetizing a roach while measuring with Spikerbox

More events coming up soon.

Tuesday, April 21
Amsterdam, NL

Wednesday, April 22
Charlottesville, VA, USA
London, UK
Seattle, WA, USA

Thursday, April 23
London, UK

Saturday, April 25
Bethesda, MD, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Baltimore, MD USA

Sunday, April 26
Seattle, WA, USA

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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.  (Sorry I got to it so late)  On Tuesday, San Diego has a talk on sharks and rays, and Oakland hosts a talk on theoretical neuroscience.  On Wednesday, Charlottesville explores new project ideas, and Melbourne has a strategy session on opening a new bio-hackerspace.  On Thursday, Brooklyn has a forensics crime scene class for kids, led by FBI Special Agent Sarah Wood. On Thursday evening Brooklyn is hosting a talk by Suzanne Anker on Bio Art.  On Saturday  Baltimore has a hands on event surveying bio-printing hardware led by Ryan Hoover, Ljubljana starts with beer drinking, and ends with beer and kombucha making, Oakland starts sessions on getting their autoclave up and running, Seattle conducts participatory squid dissection, led by Angie Boysen, and Sunnyvale has their first garage sale.

Tuesday, April 7
San Diego, CA, USA
Oakland CA, USA

Wednesday, April 8
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Melbourne, Vic, AU

Thursday, April 9
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Saturday, April 11
Baltimore, MD, USA
Ljubljana, SVN
Oakland, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Here are some pics from Seattle’s DNA extraction event a few weeks back.  Thanks to Bergen McMurray for getting them to me.  Love to see more from past events!  Please email them to events@diybio.org.

More events coming up soon.

Tuesday, April 14
Bethesda, MD, USA
Amsterdam, NL

Wednesday, April 15
Baltimore, MD, USA

Thursday, April 16
Moscow, RU

Saturday, April 18
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA

Tuesday, April 21
Amsterdam, NL

Wednesday, April 22
Charlottesville, VA, USA
London, UK
Seattle, WA, USA

Thursday, April 23
London, UK

Saturday, April 25
Seattle, WA, USA
Baltimore, MD USA

Sunday, April 26
Seattle, WA, USA

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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, Oakland has a course on DNA design and placement into living systems, while showing how to make bacteria glow.  On Tuesday, Somerville is having an open house, and  Vancouver is making an open source version of a widely publicized time-efficient food.  On Thursday, Brooklyn is having a talk on engineering the human microbiome with synthetic biology, Denver has a course on beginners use of widely used computational and visualization software, and Ljubljana is engaging in some moss graffiti.  On Friday, Sunnyvale has a demonstration of a free iGEM version of DNA design software.  On Saturday, Montreal has a lesson on bacteria culturing, on the way to setting up their community worm lab

Sunday, March 29
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, March 31
Somerville, MA, USA
Vancouver, BC, CAN

Thursday, April 2
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Denver, CO, USA
Ljubljana, SVN

Friday, April 3
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, April 4
Montreal, QC, CAN

Tuesday, April 7
San Diego, CA, USA
Oakland CA, USA

Wednesday, April 8
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Saturday, April 11
Baltimore, MD, USA

Tuesday, April 14
Bethesda, MD, USA

Thursday, April 16
Moscow, RU

Wednesday, April 22
London, UK

Thursday, April 23
London, UK

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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.