The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics and Art/Sci present: Outlaw Biology? Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio 29-30 Jan. 2010 at the California NanoSystems Institute (map)
Friday 4-8pm: Symposium Saturday 10am-3pm: Workshop and Exhibition

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Bio-faire + Exhibition

UCLA Outlawbio Program

Tenatative List of Workshops and Exhibitions

  1. Bioweathermap, Jason Bobe. With field-trips to the UCLA Arboretum and Hammer Museum (in cooperation with Machine Project
  2. Learn to Design a DNA-based nanostructure using cadnano software, Philip Lukeman
  3. Paint colorful microbes – luminescent, fluorescent, and pigmented – on do-it-yourself solid media. With a little time and luck, we’ll preserve the painted results in epoxy, like microbiological paintings in amber, Mackenzie Cowell
  4. SKDB: Learn to use software tools for open source manufacturing and bioengineering, Bryan Bishop and Ben Lipkowitz
  5. Use of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus strain ADP1 as a DIY bioengineering platform, David Metzgar
  6. Ars Synthetica: Have an informed, ethical, and open dialogue on the emerging field of synthetic biology, Gaymon Bennett
  7. Extract DNA from Strawberries, CSG Staff
  8. Lactobacillus Plasmid Recovery and Visualization for fun and profit, Meredith L. Patterson
  9. DIY Webcam Microscopy. Join us for a worldwide webcam hacking event and make your own 100x USB microscope for less than $10. We’ll provide the webcams and a live internet feed from other workshop locations across the world, from Bangalore to Australia. Find out more at diybio.org/ucam
  10. Velolab, See the first Bicyclized Mobile Biology lab, Sam Starr
  11. Learn about FBI Outreach: Promoting Responsible Research & Career Opportunities, Special Agent Edward You
  12. Learn about LavaAmp: The Personal Thermal Cycler, Guido Núñez-Mujica and Joseph P. Jackson III
  13. The HOX Gene Zodiac project. Learn about homeobox genes, body plans and the Chinese Zodiac, Victoria Vesna