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Here are your DIYbio events for the week.  On Sunday, Austin does some hands-on craft brewing with Jacob Ashton, Durham has a show and tell, prepping for a local Sci-Tech Expo .  Oakland carries on their Biohack Academy, Open Insulin project, and some in-depth work on protein expression, and Washington, DC has a huge Science Technology, Enigineering and Math (STEM) event with several biotech participants.  On Monday, Brooklyn starts their 3-day biohacker bootcamp,  Cambridge has a two talks, one entitled “Minimal Requirements for Morphogenisis – where does biology come inn?” by Stoyan Smoukov, and the other entitled “A touch screen for cells: Exploring the uses of piezoelectric materials in synthetic biology” by Michael Smith, London has a panel discussion and talks by artists and scientists on the applications of organizational stuctures of superorganisms, including Dr. Libby Heaney, Dr Mark Isalan, Melissa Sterry, Dr Tom Ellis, and Heather Barnett.  Also on Monday, Oakland continues its work on Real Vegan Cheese, and Sunnyvale continues its work on a quantum salinity detector using a surface plasmon resonance device.  On Tuesday, Amsterdam works on several interesting projects,  and Toronto is showing off their new lab.  On Wednesday, Albany has a talk on vector-borne diseases with a focus on the Zika virus, by Dr Laura Kramer, Brooklyn has a workshop on CRISPR/Cas9, Oakland continues their fun fermentations and Open Insulin project, San Diego continues their work which includes open source transformations of algae and bacteria, Seattle has a discussion of the meaning of JCVI-syn3.0, the recently announced living cell made from scratch with the smallest possible genome, and Sunnyvale continues its work on a fluorescence microscope.  On Thursday, Cambridge continues its discussions of establishing a biomakespace, Kalispell has a bioinformatics tools demo, Oakland continues work on fungal cultivation and conducts a biohacking bootcamp, San Diego has a discussion of the value of basic biological research, where Dr. Aaron Groen uses his research into the basic mechanisms of cytokinesis as an example, and Sunnyvale continues their bioprinter work.  On Friday, Buenos Aires has a “mingling session” for bioart, and some experimentation with microbial fuel cells, Cambridge has a talk on single-cell RNA sequencing with Dr Florian Buettner and North York has a talk on Precision Medicine by Dr. Ruslan Dorfman.  On Saturday, Austin has a workshop and discussion of vaping nootropics, and Seattle has a fun course by Regina Wu, where a zombie apocalypse is imagined as introduction to viruses and  antibodies.

Sunday, April 17
Austin, TX, USA
Durham, NC, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Washington, DC, USA

Monday, April 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, GBR
London, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday, April 19
Amsterdam, NLD
Toronto, ON, CAN

Wednesday, April 20
Albany, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
San Diego, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, April 21
Cambridge, GBR
Kalispell, MT, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
San Diego, CA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Friday, April 22
Buenos Aires, ARG
Cambridge, GBR
North York, ON, CAN

Saturday, April 23
Austin, TX, USA
Seattle, WA, USA

Other events coming up

Monday-Tuesday April 25-26
Boston, MA, USA

Wednesday, May 4
San Francisco, CA, 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 Monday, Baltimore has Claire Fraser speaking on the human gut microbiome in collaborations with the  “culture as medium” series.  On Tuesday, Amsterdam does its projects, Cambridge is helping with a synthetic biology workshop in London, San Diego will be having a lecture called “Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease Using Human Stem Cells” by Dr Jessica Young.  On Wednesday London begins a big 3-day conference, Oakland continues work on their Open Insulin and fermentation projects,  Sunnyvale continues to work on its fluorescence microscope, and Vancouver is going to a panel discussion of the microbiome, moderated by Linda Aylesworth, with Bill Mohn, Brett Finlay, and Deborah Money, MD. On Thursday, London continues the conference, and Somerville attends a microbiome event. On Friday, Buenos Aires has an bioart event of mingling and experimentation with microbial fuel cells, London continues the conference, Sunnyvale has a hands on workshop on engineering bacteria with CRISPR/Cas9, and Seattle is attending a comicon, where founder Bergen McMurray will participate in a discussion about the mutually influential relationship between technology and science fiction.   On Saturday, Bethesda is checking out a space, Brooklyn carries on a intensive 4-session class on CRISPR/Cas9, Buenos Aires is having a meeting on bio-hacking, Cambridge has a conference (bundled ticket price gives a break on the London conference), Oakland has a hands-on workshop on engineering bacteria with CRISPR/Cas9,  Stockholm has a biomakers conference, and Sunnyvale has an event on DNA bar-coding.

Monday, April 4
Baltimore, MD, USA

Tuesday, April 5
Amsterdam, NLD
Cambridge, GBR
London, GBR
San Diego, CA, USA

Wednesday, April 6
London, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Vancouver, BC, CAN

Thursday, April 7
London, GBR
Somerville, MA, USA

Friday, April 8
Buenos Aires, ARG
London, GBR
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA

Saturday, April 9
Bethesda, MD, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Buenos Aires, ARG
Cambridge, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Stockholm, SWE
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Events coming up

Monday, April 11
Toronto, ON, USA

Thursday, April 14
Ljubljana, SVN

Friday, April 15
Baltimore, MD, USA

Saturday, April 16
Austin, TX, USA

Saturday, April 30
Toronto, ON, CAN

Wednesday, May 18
Austin, TX, USA

Thursday, May 19
Amsterdam, NLD

Friday – Sunday, June 24-26
Amsterdam, NLD (Register now)

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, Bethesda meets to go over their projects, and Oakland continues work on Open Insulin.  On Monday, Austin will be at a discussion by Jacob Ashton on beer and brewing in space, and Sunnyvale continues work on a quantum salinity detector based on surface plasmon resonance.  On Tuesday, Amsterdam goes through their project selection and planning, Austin has Susan Golden speaking on a day in the life of a cyanobacterium, Minneapolis has a low cost equipment workshop, where you can try out gel electrophoresis and a build-your-own spectrometer, Mountain View has Gabriele Scheler speaking on an introduction to mathematical modeling and data science in cell biology, and Somerville has a discussion of a paper about a DNA copying technique that does not require heating-cooling cycles. On Wednesday, Brooklyn has a workshop on design of RNA guides for CRISPR/CAS9, Hertogenbosch has a discussion of the legal and ethical issues of new bio-materials, and Vancouver has a 3D bioprinting demonstration.   On Thursday Brooklyn has a talk by Dr. Niki Athanasiadou on the everyday use of the scientific method, London has talks on complex error detection during genome assembly by Fatima Vayani, and the use of graphs, instead of sequence as reference genomes by Erik Garrison, Melbourne introduces you to their lab with a brainstorming session, Oakland works on the art of science and science of art together with their biohacking bootcamp, and Sunnyvale continues with their bioprinter project.  On Friday, Montreal has their open lab night.  On Saturday Austin has Dr Rhykka Connelly showing home bioreactors for spirulina and chlorella algae, Brooklyn has an electromyography workshop, Cambridge has talks and a workshop on maker applications for wildlife conservation by Tony Nagg (bat detection) and  Mayke de Freitas Santos (drones for spectral detection).  In the workshop, you can help build bat detector boards. Also on Saturday, San Diego has an open lab and a bioinformatics workshop.

Sunday, March 27
Bethesda, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, March 28
Austin, TX, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday, March 29
Amsterdam, NLD
Austin, TX, USA
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Mountain View, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA

Wednesday March 30
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Hertogenbosch, NTL
Vancouver, BC, USA

Thursday, March 31
Brooklyn, NY, USA
London, GBR
Melbourne, VIC, AUS
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Friday, April 1
Montreal, QC, CAN

Saturday, April 2
Austin, TX, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, GBR
San Diego, CA, USA
San Diego, CA, USA

Events coming up

Tuesday, April 5
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday-Friday, April 6-8
London, GBR

Thursday, April 7
Somerville, MA, USA

Friday, April 8
Buenos Aires, ARG
Seattle, WA, USA

Saturday, April 9
Buenos Aires, ARG
Stockholm, SWE
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Monday, April 11
Toronto, ON, USA

Thursday, April 14
Ljubljana, SVN

Friday, April 15
Baltimore, MD, USA

Saturday, April 16
Austin, TX, USA

Saturday, April 30
Toronto, ON, CAN

Wednesday, May 18
Austin, TX, USA

Thursday, May 19
Amsterdam, NTL

Friday – Sunday, June 24-26
Amsterdam, NTL (Register now)

Here are photos of the Waag Society Open Wetlab Genetic Modification for Dummies event last week

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.