Hi All,
What a busy summer we have at the lab. Read more about upcoming events, classes, a call for projects, and upcoming conferences.
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Signup now for Metabolic Engineering 4 part Class -
http://www.meetup.com/BioCurious/events/231373391/Saturday is our qPCR event -
http://www.meetup.com/BioCurious/events/231705820/--------
Call For Projects
The Anthropology/Philosophy Group of the Bay Area is launching a series of workshops on anthropology, science, and art. This is a call for projects in a review-and-selection process to select participants for the initial workshop that aims to help develop participants’ ideas into viable “citizen science” or “art and activism” projects. Workshops are led by two anthropologists, Mazyar Lotfalian and Michael Scroggins, along with invited collaborators. Biocurious of Silicon Valley (
http://biocurious.org) is graciously sponsoring the initial workshop.
The intellectual impetus for these workshops comes from the emergence of interdisciplinary projects that have used either “citizen science” or “art and activism” to enhance our knowledge about social, environmental, and political processes. In addition, these two interdisciplinary practices draw on democratic traditions of inclusion of non-expert into decision-making and design process.
If you are interested, please email a paragraph to the workshop organizers (
mazyar.l...@gmail.com and
michaelj...@gmail.com) BY JULY 1st describing your projects. The organizers will give individual attention to your project and select 4-8 projects to form a six-week workshop.
Examples (not exclusively):
Citizen Science:
http://www.citizenscientists.com/examples/ Art and Activism:
http://www.takepart.com/photos/actipedia-activist-art ----------
Upcoming Food Conference
New Harvest, the 501(c)(3) research institute advancing the technologies to make foods and fibres from cell cultures is hosting the world's first conference on cellular agriculture.
Pioneers in growing agriculture products from cell cultures will talk about their technologies, which will you can see, touch, taste, in the Prototype Room. As an example, the world's first cell cultured spider silk jacket, made by Spiber Japan, will be making it's North American debut at this conference.
Where: The Golden Gate Club at the Presidio, 135 Fisher Loop, San Francisco, CA 94129
When: July 13, 2016
$50 per ticket for students and biohackers
Students can get the student rate by emailing
in...@new-harvest.org and requesting the student rate.
More information on the conference can be found here.----------
BioHack The Planet
Find out more about this upcoming conference which is September 23, 24, 25 in Oakland. Sign up now!
http://biohacktheplanet.com----------
We will have even more classes and events to announce so keep an eye out. Have a great summer everyone. Hope to see you at the lab.
Maria Chavez
Board Member
BioCurious