SynBio Challenges and Solution Pathways: A VC Perspective.From the fashion industry to semiconductor technology, advances in SynBio are helping drive novel applications across a diversity of verticals. However, to achieve its full promise, SynBio has to overcome some key challenges both on the technology side and on the commercial side. This session presents a technology roadmap for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Introduction to the Echo® Liquid Handler and Acoustic TXTL Circuit OptimizationMeet Rich Ellson, founder and CTO of Labcyte as he guides you through an introduction to acoustic liquid handling. This will be followed by a hands on activity, run by Jared Bailey of Labcyte, exploring cell-free transcription-translation systems (TXTL). Transcription-translation systems (TXTL) provide a tantalizing route to the creation of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Planet Formation Post-KeplerThe message of the Kepler space mission is this: super-Earths abound in the universe. These are planets 1--4 Earth radii and 2--20 Earth masses in size, and composed of solids and gas in proportions of 100:1 by mass. We describe how super-Earths/sub-Neptunes form within circumstellar disks of gas and dust. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Biodesign Town Hall at The Tech Museum of InnovationThe intersection of biology and design - often called biodesign - is revolutionizing the consumer experience of biotechnology. In the last five years, dozens of biotech companies have launched consumer products. These include new biotextiles for fashion, foods made with cellular agriculture, cosmetics and fragrance made with synthetic biology, and ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Technology and Innovation in AgricultureAs California provides more than half the produce for the entire nation and leads the world in technology and life sciences, the state is also the ideal testbed for bold ideas and ambitions around AgTech. UC researchers and partners are applying innovative technology solutions to increase production to feed growing ...
Jessica Lessin is the founder and CEO of The Information, a publication known for original, in-depth reporting about the technology industry. Lessin previously covered the biggest tech companies for the Wall Street Journal, breaking major deals, product launches, and CEO changes. In 2011, she was part of a team that was a ...
Miniaturized Nextera XT for Efficient NGS Using the Echo Liquid HandlerNext-generation sequencing provides a breadth and depth of genomics information that was previously unobtainable. Scientists continuously seek more ways to implement this powerful technology into their work. By using the Labcyte® Echo® 525 Liquid Handler, we will demonstrate a 20-fold miniaturization of the Illumina Nextera XT library preparation process, decreasing ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Basic RF Measurements and TerminologySpeaker: Mr. Wei Lin, Senior RF Hardware Design Engineer, National InstrumentsEditor's Note: This talk was originally scheduled for October 18th.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
GW170817: A neutron star merger observed in gravitational and electromagnetic waves.On August 17, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo detector observed the tipples in space from a neutron star merger. Two seconds later, NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Burst Monitor detected a flash of gamma rays from the collision. LIGO and Virgo localized the source to a 30 ...
Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, mundane or fantastic; their significance is their meaning, not their narrative content. Science is a way of knowing about the natural world. Its conclusions tentatively may be true or false, ...
Lab Data to Machine Learning in 30 Seconds (Riffyn and AWS)Join Riffyn,Amazon Web Services, and an esteemed panel of thought leaders from GSK, Amyris, Novartis & DRx Capital and others for an afternoon/evening of food/cocktails and discussion of machine learning & AI in the life sciences. AWS & Riffyn will provide brief introductions to their toolkits for experiment design, data shaping / integration, and ...
Dürer’s Knots: A Wired RenaissanceAround 1507, the German artist Albrecht Dürer created a set of six woodcut “knots,†ornamental images based on Islamic metalwork. The knots embody the entwined networks of early modern European and Islamic artisanal and industrial practices. These works also speak to the movement of natural resources and ...
Are you curious about the intersection of design thinking and synthetic biology? We understand that designers are trained to focus on people and their experiences, recognize what technology can become a product, how people might use the product, and what, if any, relationships might ensue. We get that biological design ...
Join us for an evening tuned to listening, music, and the physics of sound. Inspired by the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival held in Golden Gate Park on October 5 - 7, tonight’s program features instruments and sonic experiments.Hardly Strictly EelgrassWith the Association of National Estuary Programs7:00 p.m.  | Fisher Bay Observatory ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco.Cafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco.For more information or if you have questions please email sf@centerforinquiry.net
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Sharktoberfest NightLifeIt’s that time of year again - when toothy sharks and thirsty humans unite for a salute to brews with an aquatic twist.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSBeer Garden 6:00 - 10:00pm-----> Sip your way through a pop-up beer garden with libations on tap from dozens of local brewerieslus, treat your tastebuds to NightLife’s ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Facial Paralysis and Restoring MovementThis talk will discuss the impact of facial paralysis on patients and review current treatments.Speaker: Jon-Paul Pepper, MD
Community labs enable cutting-edge research on a shoe-string budget. Think of us as a germinator rather than an incubator, a place where wildly creative ideas can be nurtured and explored, but also a place to shake up some of the unexamined assumptions of the biotech industry, and where biotech professionals and ...
