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Announcing DIYbiosphere: an open source project to connect DIYbio related activities worldwide
March 17, 2018
Jason Bobe
With significant growth in activities globally, our /local page has strained to keep up and simply is not a great representation of the the larger community. So we’re happy to unveil this alpha system at sphere.diybio.org. You can get involved in shaping it.
Our aim with DIYbiosphere is to make it easier for the community to share structured information about projects and organizations. It’s a venue for community members to help raise awareness about opportunities to get involved in various activities and to provide those activities with context across the larger movement.
By adopting Github as the backend platform and using simple markdown-based entries, we hope this approach is a convenient way for members of the community to collaborate on the development of this shared information resource.
We hope you’ll check out the site. There you’ll find information about:
- community labs
- projects
- incubators
- start-ups
- networks
- events
- local groups
- other (for the misfits)
Is your project or organization represented? If you feel something is missing or incorrect, we invite you to contribute! Social commentator Jenny Reardon has noted that we live in an era in which:
“Nothing endures; all is ‘in-formation.'”
As such, we’ll need many hands to help shape the formation of this community over time!
And while it’s a bit recursive, this project does have it’s own project page on DIYbiosphere. 🙂
DIYbiosphere is hosted by the nonprofit DIYbio.org.
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.
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