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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.
Here are your DIYbio events for the week.
On Sunday, Brooklyn begins its Biotechnology Crash Course, Cambridge has a series of flash presentations, Oakland continues their Open Insulin project, and Reston is building a bacteria incubator.
On Monday, Brooklyn begins their four session Biohacker Boot Camp, with special guest lecturer camera, mechatronic, biologic art/science hacker Marc Dusseiller, and Oakland continues their plant project education and brainstorming.
On Tuesday, Amsterdam has Špela Petrič, Mike Thompson, Susana Cámara Leret and Pei-Ying Lin collaborating on a workshop focusing on behavior and embodied experience as a way to reflect on codes of conduct and rituals (past, present, future) that can help with a deeper understanding and discussion of the current antibiotic crisis, Cambridge has bioart pioneer Joe Davis with his talk “Astrobiological Horticulture”, a multifaceted project to create organisms suited for survival in extraterrestrial environments, and Sunnyvale continues their Quantum Salinity Detector project.
On Wednesday, Ghent will show you how to grow edible mushrooms, Oakland continues their fun fermentation and Open Insulin projects, Sunnyvale continues their fluorescence microscope project, and Vancouver has an open lab night, featuring a workshop guided by Scott Pownall using legacy versions of software to create virtual DNA origami structures.
On Thursday Berlin has Ryan and Christian Fobel introducing an intense digital microfluidics hack session session, Bethesda will be attending a lecture in Washington, DC by Nadrian Seeman on programming DNA for a variety of other functions than than those in the the central dogma. Oakland and Sunnyvale collaborate on their bioprinter project, and Toronto has an informal workshop and study session on the molecular biology of the Arabidopsis mustard seed plant
On Friday, Denver has presentations from three Colorado, USA-based iGEM teams.
Finally, on Saturday, Berlin has Margherita Pevere conducting a workshop on growing cellulose, Oakland and Sunnyvale continue their collaboration on an evolved bacterial sunscreen, San Diego has an App-a-thon. (Seattle’s event has been cancelled due to weather concerns)
Also, a warm welcome to the fairly freshly founded Biotop in Heidelberg, BW, DEU. (H/T Ersin Sümer)
Sunday, October 9
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, UK
Oakland, CA, USA
Reston, VA, USA
Monday, October 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, October 11
Amsterdam, NTL
Cambridge, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Wednesday, October 12
Ghent, BEL
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Vancouver, BC, CAN
Thursday, October 13
Berlin, DEU
Bethesda, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN
Friday, October 14
Denver, CO, USA
Saturday, October 15
Berlin, DEU
Oakland, CA, USA
San Diego, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Other events coming up
Sunday, October 16
Oslo, NOR
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, October 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, October 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Wednesday, October 19
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Thursday, October 20
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Friday, Ocober 21
Washington, DC, USA
Saturday October 22- Sunday, October 30
Eindhoven, NTL
Saturday, October 22
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
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.
Here are your DIYbio events for the remainder of the week.
On Monday, Oakland and Sunnyvale continue their collaboration on Real Vegan Cheese. Oakland will also be carrying out a lesson on plant culturing, and will be helping with a panel discussion with academics, venture capitalists, botanists, and biohackers on Fear of the GMO Future in San Francisco.
On Tuesday, Amsterdam continues their cycle of collaborative projects, San Diego has Bethany Kolody talking about microbial communication on the ocean’s surface, Somerville will have Killian Veer demonstrating a web-platform for discovering and purchasing research materials used in molecular biology and genetics, and Sunnyvale continues their quantum salinity detector project. In San Francisco, the Synbiobeta 2-day conference begins.
On Wednesday, Heidelberg has a statue signing, where Rüdiger Trojok author of a book on biohacking, and Patrick Hasenfeld winner of Berlin Science Hack Day 1015 “Best Hardware Hack” prize will give short presentations, Oakland continues its fun fermentations and Open Insulin project, and Sunnyvale continues its fluorescence microscope project.
On Thursday, Brooklyn has Lisa Brown speaking about pharmacogenetics, and why medicine is always personal, and Oakland and Sunnyvale continue their collaboration on their bioprinter project.
Friday is the last day for registration for the Igem Giant Jamboree. Also on Friday, Singapore meets to discuss improvised lab equipment and home experiments, and Washington, DC has a discussion on the prospects of life and human habitability around nearby stars
Finally, on Saturday Austin has a learning session on re-purposing abandoned pools, spas, and ponds, and Seattle carries out a sheep brain dissection for beginning neuro-biologists.
Monday, October 3
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Tuesday, October 4
Amsterdam, NTL
San Diego, CA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Tuesday October 4- Wednesday October 5
San Francisco, CA, USA
Wednesday, October 5
Heidelberg, BW, DEU
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Thursday, October 6
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Friday, October 7
Boston, MA, USA
Singapore
Washington, DC, USA
Saturday, October 8
Austin, TX, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Other events coming up
Sunday, October 9
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Reston, VA, USA
Monday, October 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, October 11
Amsterdam, NTL
Wednesday, October 12
Ghent, BEL
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Thursday, October 13
Berlin, DEU
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN
Saturday, October 15
Austin, TX, USA
Berlin, DEU
Oakland, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sunday, October 16
Oslo, NOR
Oakland, CA, USA
Monday, October 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Tuesday, October 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Wednesday, October 19
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Thursday, October 20
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Friday, Ocober 21
Washington, DC, USA
Saturday October 22- Sunday, October 30
Eindhoven, NTL
Saturday, October 22
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
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
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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