Dear DIYers: UCLA's Center for Society and Genetics (http://socgen.ucla.edu) is organizing a symposium (Jan. 29-30, 2010) which I've given the tentative title of "Outlaw Biology" ("when e. coli is outlawed, only outlaws will have e. coli" etc.). The symposium's confirmed participants are: Meredith Patterson (hacker, writer, maker of yogurt and other technologies), Roger Brent (Fred Hutchison Cancer Center, Seattle), Gaymon Bennett (SynBERC, UC Berkeley), Paul Rothemund (maker of DNA Origami, CalTech), Hugh Rienhoff (Mydaughtersdna.org) and Jason Bobe (DIYBio, Church Lab, Harvard). Victorian Vesna, bioartist and faculty member of of UCLA's Digital Arts and Media dept. will likely participate and I will moderate. I'm excited about that lineup, and will send more details to the list as things settle. What I'm most excited about though is the hackfest/biofaire planned for the saturday after the symposium (Jan 30). It will be held on UCLA's campus and open to anyone. Jason has agreed to bring bioweathermaps (and make use of the Arboretum on campus, rich source of diversity that it is), Paul has agreed to do some aspect of DNA synthesis, either the design part of the visualization part, and Meredith has agreed to do something as yet unspecified (but awesome). So I'm writing to open this up to the list and invite participation from anyone who wants to come, do a demonstration, a teach-in, a DIY happening, etc. There are no official funds to bring people here or fund these things, unfortunately, but depending on what people might want to do, there is the possibility of finding in-kind support on campus (e.g. equipment or materials). Obviously it will be easiest for people in SoCal to come to this, but I'd love it if others were able to make it as well. If you think you'd like to be part of this, and have an idea for what to do, please send a brief abstract to me (or to the list if you want to recruit others). I'm open to anything, but I don't yet know how much space we will have, or how many people we can accomodate. ck --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DIYbio" group. To post to this group, send email to diybio@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to diybio+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/diybio?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE