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Here are your DIYbio events for the remainder of the week.

On Monday, Minneapolis has local chemist Dan B show and test out some biochemistry card games in the making, and Oakland teaches people to use free online tools to design and visualize DNA constructs as part of their Biohacking Academy.

On Tuesday, Amsterdam has a biotic game workshop, to get people started into the world of biohacking through their Biohack Academy, Madison has Josiah Zayner (via Google Hangouts) discussing CRISPR at home, and Sunnyvale continues their quantum salinity detector project.

On Wednesday, Amsterdam has you capturing your own microbial “pets” through the red light district, Brooklyn starts a two session workshop on growing your own textiles, and Oakland continues its Open Insulin project and fun fermentation.

On Thursday, Baltimore does a short lab skills workshop on restriction digests,   Cambridge continues discussions on building a biomakespace, Sunnyvale continues their bioprinter project, and Toronto continues their study of Herron and Freeman’s  Evolutionary Analysis

On Friday, Sunnyvale has a workshop to develop Citizen Science Art and Activism projects, led by Mazyar Lotfalian and Michael Scroggins, along with invited collaborators

Finally, on Saturday, Baltimore continues its Build-a-Gene workshop guided by Lisa Scheifle, covering cutting edge gene manipulation technologies including CRISPR, and Denver begins two days of hands on synthetic biology with their Bio-Bootcamp

Monday, August 8
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, August 9
Amsterdam, NTL
Madison, WI, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, August 10
Amsterdam, NTL
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Thursday, August 11
Baltimore, MD, USA
Cambridge, UK
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Friday, August 12
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, August 13
Baltimore, MD, USA
Denver, CO, USA

Other events coming up

Sunday, August 14
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, August 15
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, Ca, USA

Tuesday, August 16
Madison, WI, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, August 17
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Thursday, August 18
Camden, NJ, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sydney, AUS

Saturday, August 20
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Sunday, August 21
Durham, NC, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, August 22
Oakland, CA, USA
Oslo, NOR
Madison, WI, USA

Tuesday, August 23
Madison, WI, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, August 24
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, August 25
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, August 27
Baltimore, MD, USA
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Sunday, August 28
Bethesda, MD, USA
Melbourne, VIC, AUS
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, August 30
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, August 31
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, September 1
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Friday, September 2
Singapore

Saturday, September 3
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Monday, September 5
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday, September 6
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, September 7
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, September 8
Oakland, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Sunday, September 11
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, September 13
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, September 14
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, September 17
Austin, TX, USA

Monday, September 19
Cambridge, UK

Friday, September 23-Sunday, September 25
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, September 26
Somerville, MA, USA

Saturday October 22- Sunday, October 30
Eindhoven, NTL

Here is a recent hardware activity at MN DIYbio

 

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 are your DIYbio events for the week.

On Sunday, join Brooklyn as they process black-and-white film (remember that?) using beer and coffee, and Oakland continues their Biohack Academy series with a course on culturing, as well as continuing on their Open Insulin,  and outer space microfluidics projects, while Sunnyvale has teens showing other teens  some basics of biology and biotechnology

On Monday, Charlottesville begins a two-week synthetic biology summer camp, Oakland continues its Biohacking Academy with a course on plasmid design and online databases, as well as continuing their Real Vegan Cheese project in collaboration with Sunnyvale.

On Tuesday, Amsterdam changes the venue of their Open Wetlab to Red Light Pet Shop pop-up location to explore their bio bank,  Brooklyn has Oliver Medvedik, Ph.D. and Ellen Jorgensen Ph.D. teaching a course on designing guide RNAs for use in CRISPR, Buenos Aires, has a discussion by Gabriela Munguia on “bioimpresion” as an intersection of biology, 3-D printing, and art, Madison has a talk by Joshua Hyman on DNA sequencing, and Sunnyvale continues its plant bio research and quantum salinity detector projects.

On Wednesday, Amsterdam has a workshop exploring the superfood potential of their algae “pets”,  Lausanne/Ranens has a various projects and organizations sharing their work,  Oakland continues with their fun fermentation and Open Insulin projects, and Sydney continues with their ethylene biosensor iGEM project.

On Thursday, Buenos Aires hosts Pablo de Soto to talk about all sorts of things involving international hactivism and drones, including citizen science radiation mapping, and Sunnyvale continues their bioprinter project.

On Friday Singapore meets to share some improvised lab equipment and experiments, and Sunnyvale continues discussions about biohacking and climate change.

Finally, on Saturday Baltimore has Lisa Schifele Ph.D.  teaching the Build-a-Gene series of courses, which include an introduction to CRISPR/ Cas9, Brooklyn has Oliver Medvedik, Ph.D.beginning a lab series on gene editing using CRISPR/ Cas9 (there is a prerequisite), and has Moira Williams  conducting a workshop on making art from mushrooms and lichen, Oakland continues their evolved bacterial sunscreen project, in collaboration with Sunnyvale.  Also on Saturday, Seattle has an introduction to light microscopy,  and Sunnyvale begins a 3- session in-depth lab and lecture series on CRISPR/ Cas9.

Sunday, July 31
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Monday, August 1
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday, August 2
Amsterdam, NTL
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Buenos Aires, ARG
Madison, WI, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, August 3
Amsterdam, NTL
Lausanne/Ranens, CH
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sydney, NSW, AUS

Thursday, August 4
Buenos Aires, ARG
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Friday, August 5
Singapore
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, August 6
Baltimore, MD, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Other events coming up

Sunday, August 7
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Melboune, VIC, AUS
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, August 8
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, August 9
Amsterdam, NTL
Madison, WI, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, August 10
Amsterdam, NTL
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Thursday, August 11
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Saturday, August 13
Baltimore, MD, USA
Denver, CO, USA

Sunday, August 14
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, August 15
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, Ca, USA

Tuesday, August 16
Madison, WI, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, August 17
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Thursday, August 18
Camden, NJ, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sydney, AUS

Saturday, August 20
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Sunday, August 21
Durham, NC, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, August 22
Oakland, CA, USA
Madison, WI, USA

Tuesday, August 23
Madison, WI, USA

Wednesday, August 24
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, August 25
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, August 27
Baltimore, MD, USA

Sunday, August 28
Bethesda, MD, USA
Melbourne, VIC, AUS
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, August 30
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, August 31
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Waag Societies recent Bio-Ink Workshop held at their pop-up Microbial  Pet Store in the Red Light District of Amsterdam at the Gallery Schatjes

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 are your DIYbio events for the week.  On Sunday, Munich meets to discuss student projects in biohacking, New York has the last day of a big hackers conference, featuring biohacking talks by Nina Alli and Tom Keenan (and an assembly of the biohackers there at 5pm in Hoover on the 18th floor), Oakland continues their Open Insulin project, and Sunnyvale has a talk by Geoff Ivison on chimeric antigen receptor T cells and cancer treatment. On Monday, London hosts a talk by Joe Davis, resident artist of George Church‘s lab at Harvard,  and Oakland continues their Biohacking Academy lectures.  On Tuesday, Sunnyvale continues their quantum salinity detector project.  On Wednesday, Amsterdam will explore their chromobacteria qualities and look at different inks produced by these these pets, Eindhoven has an open lab on building with organisms, Ghent has a meeting to discuss projects to use insects as a food source, and Oakland continues its Open Insulin project as well as furthering fun fermentation.  Also on Wednesday, Sunnyvale continues their project on building a fluorescing microscope,  Tokyo has a talk by Ilya Zakharov on neuroscience and art, and Vancouver has Atilla giving a talk on genetic modification.  On Thursday, Cambridge continues their discussions on creating a biomakespace, Cork has demos of new commercial efforts of biohackers, Hong Kong has a talk by Professor King Chow on the detection of trace minerals in soil, London has  Mark Haddon speaking with neuroscientists Uta and Chris Frith about their work on the neural basis of communication.  Also on Thursday, London has Yannick Wurm discussing the discovery of a social chromosome in fire ants, and Sunnyvale continues their bioprinter project.  On Saturday, Austin will have a demonstration on how to make probiotic foods, Baltimore will be at a Building with Biology event,  Denver begins two days of hands on synthetic biology, Oakland continues working on their liquid-handling robot, and Sunnyvale continues their metabolic engineering coursework.

Sunday, July 24
Munich, BY, DEU
New York, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Monday, July 25
London, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, July 26
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, July 27
Amsterdam, NTL
Eindhoven, NTL
Ghent, OV, BEL
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Tokyo, JPN
Vancouver, BC, CAN

Thursday, July 28
Cambridge, GBR
Cork, M, IRL
Hong Kong, CHN
London, GBR
London, GBR
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, July 30
Austin, TX, USA
Baltimore, MD, USA
Denver, CO, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Other events coming up

Sunday, July 31
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Monday, August 1
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Tuesday, August 2
Buenos Aires, ARG
Madison, WI, USA

Wednesday, August 3
Sydney, NSW, AUS

Thursday, August 4
Buenos Aires, ARG

Friday, August 5
Singapore

Saturday, August 6
Baltimore, MD, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Seattle, WA, USA

Sunday, August 7
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Melboune, VIC, AUS

Tuesday, August 9
Amsterdam, NTL

Wednesday, August 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Here are some photos from DIYbio Hong Kong’s recent 3-D microscopy event

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.