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 ..read more

Here are your events for the week Sunday, September 3 Oakland, CA, USA – Open Insulin Lab Day  Work on the Open Insulin project continues Monday, September 4 Santa Clara and Oakland, CA, USA – Synthetic Biology, Biohacking, and Cheese – Real Vegan Cheese team meeting.  Collaboration between two biohackspaces continues on Real Vegan Cheese Tuesday, September 5 La Jolla, CA, USA – MicroRNAs: One biologist’s junk is another cell’s regulatory molecule.  Julia Nussbacher talks about what high throughput sequencing and computational biology can can say about the function of some ..read more

Here are your events for the remainder of the week Monday, August 28 Oakland, CA, USA – Plant Bio Group Somerville, MA, USA – DIY Biology on Tap!: BosLab Fundraiser  Learn about and support DIY bio, all while drinking beer! Tuesday, August 29 Cambridge, UK – The Art of Microscopy [Lab it Tuesday] at the Biomakespace  Ben Dobson (the Microscope Man) will introduce his wonderful artwork Ottawa, ON, CAN – Biotown is turning one! Wednesday, August 30 Cambridge, UK – Biomaker Challenge August Meetup Get help or help out with the Biomaker Challenge.  Activities include using the Gtron ..read more

Here are your DIYbio events for the week Sunday, August 20 Cincinnati, OH, USA – Science Book Club – The Gene: An Intimate History  Siddhartha Mukherjee’s  book is disussed Honk Kong – We are at the Citizen Science Faire Last day of the faire.  Check out the booth and workshop! Oakland, CA, USA – Open Insulin Lab Day  The Open Insulin project continues. Monday, August 21 Cambridge, UK – Cafe Synthetique: Graduate Talks Quite a range of talks on synthetic biology including improvement of timber (Jan Lyczakowski), developing expression systems for chemicals produced by algae ..read more

Here are your DIYbio events for the remainder of the week Monday, August 14 Brooklyn, NY, USA – Biotextiles: Grow your own material for fashion design Today’s biolab is becoming tomorrow’s design studio. Fashion designers have grown materials, garments and accessories from bacteria, yeast, fungi, human bone, synthetic spider silk, and more. In this two-part introduction to biotextiles, artist Ali Schachtschneider guides you on how to grow fabrics from microbes and then use natural and bioengineered bacteria to dye them. Oakland CA, USA – Plant Bio Group Seattle, WA, USA – Maker Faire – Working ..read more

Here are your events for the week. Sunday, August 6 Brooklyn, NY, USA – Biotech Crash Course Introductory intense hands-on course led by Julie Wolf covers the basic techniques that facilitated the biotechnology revolution, and will show you where it is headed in the near future. Oakland, CA, USA- Open Insulin Lab Day The Open Insulin Project continues Tokyo, JPN – Tokyo Maker Faire 2017 See various DIYbio groups at the Maker Faire event Monday, August 7 Brooklyn, NY, USA – PCR and Pizza at Biotech Without Borders   Biotech Without Borders is holding its first PCR and Pizza event to inaugu ..read more

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 s ..read more

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  ..read more

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 yerb ..read more

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 ..read more