[DIYbio] DIYbio events for the remainder of the week of October 2

11:11 AM |

Late edits can be viewed at https://diybio.org/2016/10/03/diybio-events-for-the-week-of-october-2/

Here are your DIYbio events for the remainder of the week.

On Monday, Oakland and Sunnyvale continue their collaboration on Real Vegan Cheese.  Oakland will also be carrying out a lesson on plant culturing, and will be helping with a panel discussion in academics, venture capitalists, botanists, and biohackers on Fear of the GMO Future in San Francisco.

On Tuesday, Amsterdam continues their cycle of collaborative projects, San Diego has Bethany Kolody talking about microbial communication on the ocean's surface, Somerville will have Killian Veer demonstrating a web-platform for discovering and purchasing research materials used in molecular biology and genetics, and Sunnyvale continues their quantum salinity detector project.  In San Francisco, the Synbiobeta 2-day conference begins.

On Wednesday, Oakland continues its fun fermentations and Open Insulin project, and Sunnyvale continues its fluorescence microscope project.

On Thursday, Brooklyn has Lisa Brown speaking about pharmacogenetics, and why medicine is always personal, and Oakland and Sunnyvale continue their collaboration on their bioprinter project.

Friday is the last day for registration for the Igem Giant Jamboree.  Also on Friday,  Singapore meets to discuss improvised lab equipment and home experiments, and Washington, DC has a discussion on the prospects of life and human habitability around nearby stars

Finally, on Saturday Seattle carries out a sheep brain dissection for beginning neuro-biologists.

Monday, October 3
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday, October 4
Amsterdam, NTL
San Diego, CA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday October 4- Wednesday October 5
San Francisco, CA, USA

Wednesday, October 5
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, October 6
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Friday, October 7
Boston, MA, USA
Singapore
Washington, DC, USA

Saturday, October 8
Seattle, WA, USA

Other events coming up

Sunday, October 9
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Reston, VA, USA

Monday, October 10
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, October 11
Amsterdam, NTL

Wednesday, October 12
Ghent, BEL
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, October 13
Berlin, DEU
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Saturday, October 15
Austin, TX, USA
Berlin, DEU
Oakland, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Sunday, October 16
Oslo, NOR
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, October 17
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, October 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, October 19
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Somerville, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, October 20
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Friday, Ocober 21
Washington, DC, USA

Saturday October 22- Sunday, October 30
Eindhoven, NTL

Saturday, October 22
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA

Sunday, October 23
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Monday, October 24
Oakland, CA, USA

Tuesday, October 25
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, October 26
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, October 27
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, October 29
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Sunday, October 30
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, October 31
Oakland, CA, USA

Saturday, November 5
Baltimore, MD, USA

Sunday, November 6
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Friday, November 11
Baltimore, MD, USA

Monday, November 14
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Thursday, November 17
New York, NY, USA

Monday, November 21
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Monday, December 4
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Friday, December 9
Baltimore, MD, USA

Monday, December 12
Brooklyn, NY, 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.

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[DIYbio] Re: Best online course on genetics engineering

1:44 AM |

Thanks Andreas for your input,

I agree, a lot of what we know we learn by doing, also through interacting with others on forums such as this one, and in formal training as well.

But remember I'm a mechanical engineer with high school and college level on biology and chemistry. I've always been interested in science in general including genetics, but i don't have the basics. I like to understand what i'm doing, how things work, so i can combine ideas and eventually find something novel or interesting.

2 weeks ago i would have read your first phrase below about enzymes and amino acids and i would not know what these are. Now i'm at the end of course 3 (out of 10) of Edx MITx: 7.00x Introduction to Biology , and because of this i better understand what you're describing.

But the rest of your procedure is still fuzzy. I do hope when i finished this first MITx course (and the 2 others proposed in this thread), i'll be able to make simple experiments on my own, with the help of forums members and build upon that.

I don't have yet a specific project in mind, but i'm pretty good at putting odd things together and coming up with interesting stuff sometimes. I believe coming from an unrelated field has disadvantages but it also makes it easier to think outside the box and explore paths that veterans would not bother to walk because of their assumptions.

thanks again for your input,

On Saturday, 1 October 2016 19:42:55 UTC+2, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] wrote:
I found that learning by doing is most effective. Do you have a project in mind? 

E.g., immagine you want to genetically engineer strawberries that taste like banana. 


You need these 3 enzymes that convert the amino acid leucine into isoamyl acetate (aka banana smell compound)
  1. <bbpart>BBa_J45008</bbpart>: BAT2 - enzyme that catalyzes the first step in isoamyl alcohol biosynthesis from L-leucine (endogenous amino acid)
  2. <bbpart>BBa_J45009</bbpart>: THI3 - enzyme that catalyzes the second step in isoamyl alcohol biosynthesis
  3. <bbpart>BBa_J45014</bbpart>: ATF1 - enzyme that converts isoamyl alcohol to isoamyl acetate
Then you google plant expression vectors and will find pCambia. 
Then you add the genes for the three proteins into the plant vector, put it into agrobacterium and transform strawberries. 

On the way you will learn the techniques - miniprep. restriction digest, ligation, etc. 

Unless you need letters to put after your name like BSc, MSc, PhD. Unnecessary (but good) if you do a start-up yourself. 


Andreas








On Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 10:04:09 PM UTC+2, Hugues wrote:
Hello DIYBio !

I'm looking for one of the best and up to date online course on genetics engineering, as an introduction and to get the basics.

I'm a 51 years old engineer currently working in manufacturing in the food industry.

I'm preparing a second career and would like to do R&D work initially and potentially start a small bio tech company in the future.

I'm looking for an extensive course, free or not, with proper exams and certification, that could be done part time over 1 year or more, and possible advanced courses afterwards.

Thanks for your suggestions, so far i have found these 2:



I have biology and chemistry level from high school and college, and good scientific background with a growing interest in bio technologies.

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