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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.
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.
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