Reporters, editors, and podcasters will talk about some emerging publications in the field, and how they cover synthetic biology and the global Community Bio movement. Moderated by John Allen (NCL BioBank)

Featuring:

Alex Pearlman, editor and reporter at Biodesigned magazine

Ewen Chardronnet, Editor in Chief at Makery

Christina Agapakis, Executive Editor at Grow by Ginkgo

Nina Alli, host of the Defcon Biohacking Village podcast White Hats & Lab Coats

ZOOM ROOM: LYSOSOME

https://mit.zoom.us/j/92230200589

Join us for a panel on using social media platforms to communicate issues in science and emerging technology. Moderated by Mackenzie Thornbury (BricoBio)

Justin Atkin (Thought Emporium): Doing science on youtube, and why publishing should include video

Carla Molins Pitarch (Elisava) - Guerilla SciComm

Darrion Nguyen (Lab Shenanigans) - Using TikTok to Visualize Science Concepts

Fernando Rivera (JourBiotech) - How to Disseminate Science Effectively

ZOOM ROOM: LYSOSOME

https://mit.zoom.us/j/92230200589

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Led by JOGL co-Founder Thomas Landrain, Maria Chavez (BioCurious) and David Sun Kong (MIT Community Bio Initiative), learn about some of the projects that kicked off through JOGL’s OpenCovid Challenge.

Selected Talks by Open COVID19 Projects

1. Open Enzyme Production and Purification for COVID19 Diagnostics by Isaac Larkin

2. Quantified Flu: Using wearables to predict infections by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

3. One Hour Covid Test by Sarah Ware (Bio Blaze Community Bio Lab) & Ellen Jorgensen (Biotech without Borders)

4. Open Enzyme Production by Scott Pownall

5. Corona Hunter by Aravinth Panch (CoronaHunter)

6. CoronaDetective by Guy & Rachel

7. ViralALERT by Ali Bektaş (ViralALERT)

Roundtable: How to foster successful virtual collaboration: Learnings from OpenCOVID19 Round Table

Participants: Thomas Landrain (JOGL) Kat Holo (JOGL) Rachel Aronoff (AGiR! & Hackuarium) Sarah Ware (BioBlaze Community Bio Lab) Martin Codyre (JOGL community member, GiantLeap Biotechnology) Tatiana Eliseeva (JOGL, Hackuarium) Guy Aidelberg (Cri Paris) Aravinth Panch (Corona Hunter) Ali Bektaş (ViralALERT) Ellen Jorgensen (Biotech Without Borders)

ZOOM ROOM: RIBOSOME

https://mit.zoom.us/j/99515146425

A panel discussion led by Heidi Jalkh

• Kai Costantin Biomimicry Program Specialist (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

  “ Do we need new shape imaginaries fitting the bio- fabrication age? “

• Orkan Telhan, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

• Laura Elidedt Rodriguez Torres ITMO University (Mexico/Russia)

  “Biomaterials in contemporary art”

• Dilan Ozkan Newcastle University (UK)

  “Guiding the Growth of Fungi Through A Robotic System”

ZOOM ROOM: GOLGI COMPLEX

https://mit.zoom.us/j/97630135101

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Moderated by Karolina Sulich

Roland van Dierendonck 

“Viral Art the great projects on viral biology, measures taken & pandemics.” 20 min

Biobabes (Thora H Arnardottir, Jessica Dias, Ingried Ramirez, Noor El-Gewely)

“Giving visibility to invisible works of the collective BioBabes” 15  min.

Q&A 15 min.

Moderated by Kristin Ellis, Carbon180, USA

Speakers:

Abhay Koushik, SrishTaara Makerspace, India

Dr. Amar Koushik, Dixit Ayurveda, India

Aditya Sangle OP, Jindal Global University, India

Mayank, SrishTaara Makerspace, India

ZOOM ROOM: CHLOROPLAST

 https://mit.zoom.us/j/99871630836

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• Paige Perillat-Piratoine, Towards Organica, France, “Mapping the process/generating the idea”

• Bushra Anjum, Wizkit, Bangladesh, “Biomaking within a community context”

•  Thelma Gonzalez, Allbiotech/UNAMI/Spootnik, Mexico “Failure” & how to research a contact that may help you”

• Eduardo Padilha, BioliloLab, University of San Paulo, Brazil “Connecting scientists to artists: Global->Local”

•  Heidi Jalkh, Sistemas Materiales Groups, Argentina, “Template letter, communicating w scientist about a project proposal”

ZOOM ROOM: GOLGI COMPLEX

https://mit.zoom.us/j/97630135101

Moderated by Carolyn Angleton, SacBioArts, Arc/Bac, Sacramento, California

(Continuation of the plenary session)

Dr. Eben Kirskey, Alfred Deakin Institute, Victoria, Australia

Dr. Susan Moenga, UC Davis Plant Science, Kenya/California

Kathy High, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY   

Dr. Giovanni Aloi, School of the Art institute of Chicago, Chicago,Illinois

ZOOM ROOM: GOLGI COMPLEX

https://mit.zoom.us/j/97630135101

Every community deserves to be able to make its own food, medicine and materials with sustainable biological technologies; and every community deserves to be able to design and engineer biological solutions to the challenges they face. However, while ecosystem-scale biological technologies like agriculture are widely distributed across the world, the capacity for advanced molecular- and cellular-scale bioengineering (such as synthetic biology) remains largely concentrated in a few wealthy cities in a few wealthy nations. However, we could be on the precipice of a massive change in this area. For one thing, the patents on many of the molecular tools and techniques essential to this type of biotechnology have now expired. The development of the Open Materials Transfer Agreement / OpenMTA, essentially an open source wetware license, now enables the free and collaborative sharing of genetic and biological materials for others to copy, modify, redistribute and sell. And with the creation of the Free Genes library (a growing collection of 2500+ off-patent DNA parts made freely available under the OpenMTA), the price of raw DNA synthesis is no longer a fundamental barrier to reducing the cost of advanced bioengineering.

Given these developments, how do we make bioengineering, and in particular setting up and running a bio(tech) lab, as cheap and accessible as it can possibly be? Can we create a worldwide network of decentralized nodes of biotechnological production? Can we build the bionet? Event goals: Brainstorm, recruit and coordinate efforts to build a frugal bio lab.

Led by Isaac Larkin (FreeGenes Project), Harry Akligoh (Hive Biolab), Sarah Ware (BioBlaze), and Scott Pownall (Open Science Network)

ZOOM ROOM: RIBOSOME

https://mit.zoom.us/j/99515146425

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Moderated by Carolyn Angleton, SacBioArts, Arc/Bac, Sacramento, California

(Continuation of the plenary session)

Dr. Eben Kirskey, Alfred Deakin Institute, Victoria, Australia

Dr. Susan Moenga, UC Davis Plant Science, Kenya/California

Kathy High, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY   

Dr. Giovanni Aloi, School of the Art institute of Chicago, Chicago,Illinois

ZOOM ROOM: NUCLEUS

https://mit.zoom.us/j/92892308050

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Time: 10:00 am IST on 10th Oct (12:30 AM ET of 10th Oct)

Speakers: Ivan Istomin ( Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), Darin Lobo (Co-founder, Ediblemakerspace), Aravinth Panch (DreamSpace Academy), Alexander Shynkarenko (Ryvu Therapeutics), Saheed Alarape (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture)

Moderated by: Salman Promon, MECHAMIND, Bangladesh

ZOOM ROOM : GOLGI COMPLEX

https://mit.zoom.us/j/97630135101

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Speakers: Karolina Sulich (www.karolinasulich.com), Amanda Obidike (STEMi Makers Africa), Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky (The University of Alabama at Birmingham), Roland van Dierendonck (Studio Roland van Dierendonck), Carolyn Angleton (SacBioArt)

Moderated by: Amanda Strawhacker (Tufts University, USA)

ZOOM ROOM : GOLGI COMPLEX

https://mit.zoom.us/j/97630135101

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A panel moderated by Omar Julian Perez (Xinampa), with panelists including Mary Pulgar Sanchez, Onye Ahanotu, Kupu, Xago (Baktun12)

ZOOM ROOM: LYSOSOME

https://mit.zoom.us/j/92230200589

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A panel featuring Thomas Chabi, Kendrick, Cary, Robert Lindemann, Jameson Dungan, Cristina Taphouse, and Eric Schimmel

ZOOM ROOM: RIBOSOME

https://mit.zoom.us/j/99515146425

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Speakers: Beth Tuck (Genspace), Ana Ibarra (Xinampa), Dorothy Jones-Davis (Nation of Makers), | (Moderated by: Lisa Scheifele, Loyola University of Maryland, USA)

ZOOM ROOM: GOLGI COMPLEX

https://mit.zoom.us/j/97630135101

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Speakers: Natalie Kuldell, (CEO: BioBuilder Educational Foundation) Bryan Brown (Associate Professor of STEM Education, Stanford University), Michael Tissenbaum (Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana)

Moderated by: Justice Walker (Assistant Professor of STEM Education, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA)

ZOOM ROOM: GOLGI COMPLEX

https://mit.zoom.us/j/97630135101

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A panel discussion moderated by Jean-Luc Pierte, President, North American Indian Center of Boston; International Procurement and Logistics Manager, The Fab Foundation

Panelists include

• Elia Herman (Kupu)

• Margarita Mora (Nia Tero)

• Beno Juarez (Fab Lab Lima)

ZOOM ROOM: LYSOSOME

https://mit.zoom.us/j/92230200589

Photo via Kupu.

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Speakers: Patricia Rea (Amino Labs), Adarsh Nallapa (Biocurious), Anne Hu (BioJam), Trisha Sathish (BioJam), Emily Takara (BioJam), Izabella Tejeda (BioJam)

Moderated by: Amanda Strawhacker (Tufts University, USA)

ZOOM ROOM: GOLGI COMPLEX

https://mit.zoom.us/j/97630135101

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Moderated by Corinne Takara (Xinampa)

• Bhavna Pandya (Bioriidl, Asia)

• Harry Akligoh (Kumasi Hive, Africa)

• Thelma Gonzalez (AllBiotech, Mexico City, Latin America)

• Ana Ibarra (Xinampa, CA, USA, North America)

• Rachel Aronoff (Hackuarium, Switzerland, Europe)

ZOOM ROOM: RIBOSOME

https://mit.zoom.us/j/99515146425

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Moderated by Corinne Takara (Xinampa)

Featuring:

Bhavna Pandya (Bioriidl, Asia) Werasak Surareungchai (Freak Lab, Thailand, Asia) Harry Akligoh (Kumasi Hive, Africa) Thelma Gonzalez (AllBiotech, Mexico City, Latin America)

ZOOM ROOM: NUCLEUS

https://mit.zoom.us/j/92892308050

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In this Town Hall panel from Aug 26, 2020 on The Changing Nature of Education, GCBS organizing team member Carolyn Angleton hosted Amanda Obidike (STEMi Makers Africa, Bio Summit 4.0 Fellow), Dr. Jennifer Willet (Incubator Art Lab), Dr. Justice Walker (University of Texas), and Bushra Anjum (Wizkit, Bio Summit 4.0 Fellow) for a panel conversation and breakout sessions on opportunities, challenges, and new directions for interdisciplinary life science education, including biomaking and bioart.

We are delighted to present a panel for our biweekly Town Hall! GCBS organizing team member Thelma González will host a panel titled “Science Communication and the Global Community Bio Movement: Sharing Knowledge and Addressing Misinformation During a Global Pandemic" to discuss the impact of COVID on community labs. We’ll hear about: - Concerns about how to present and evaluate new COVID information - The challenge of misinformation spreading during the pandemic - How to effectively communicate up-to-date information and knowledge gaps to empower people to make informed decisions in a time of great uncertainty Thelma (UNAM, https://www.unam.mx/) will be joined by Emily Mullin (Medium, https://onezero.medium.com/), David Kong (MIT Media Lab, https://www.media.mit.edu/), Hannu Rajaniemi (HelixNano, http://helixnano.com/), and Parin Shaik (Science and Us, http://scienceandus.org/).

This Global Community Bio Town Hall had a special theme: “Re-Opening (or Re-Booting) Your Community Bio Lab in the Time of COVID".

GCBS organizing team member Yong-Bee Lim hosted a panel to discuss the impact of COVID on community labs. Topics included: - The unique opportunities and challenges the COVID pandemic has presented to panelists' communities, - Concerns about reopening community lab spaces or remaining closed, and - How to make the decision to open, what that reopening may look like, and empowering people to make such important decisions in a time of great uncertainty. Moderated by Yong-Bee Lim of Baltimore Underground Science Space (https://bugssonline.org/) and George Mason University (https://www2.gmu.edu/) Panelists: Maria Chavez of BioCurious (https://www.arizona.edu/) Angela Armendariz of Genspace (https://www.genspace.org/) Tom Burkett of BUGSS (https://bugssonline.org/) Saskia Popescu of University of Arizona (https://www.arizona.edu/) and GMU (https://www2.gmu.edu/)

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