DIYbio events for the week of July 24
Steven Stowell
Please check https://diybio.org/2016/07/24/diybio-events-for-the-week-of-july-24/ for last minute edits
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, 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, 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
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
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
Wednesday, August 3
Sydney, NSW, AUS
Friday, August 5
Singapore
Saturday, August 6
Baltimore, MD, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunday, August 7
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Monday, August 9
Amsterdam, NTL
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 eve...@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.