Huddart Park BioBlitzJoin us for our fall San Mateo County Parks BioBlitz! We will spread out at Huddart Park to discover species of birds, plants, mammals, fish, invertebrates, reptiles, and more that the park has to offer!Please meet on Saturday, September 29th at 8:45 AM at a TBD location in the Park. ...
Guided Nature WalkExperience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve. Our guided nature walks are on Saturdays throughout fall and spring. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest and flower-carpeted oak woodland. Guided Nature Walks begin at 10:00am ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: $20 suggested donation
Science Saturday: Journey to Outer SpaceIn September, Science Saturday turns its gaze skyward for Journey to Outer Space. View meteorites, learn how much you would weigh on the moon, create your own orbiting planet craft, and more!
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Sharktoberfest 2018Celebrate the Annual Return of White Sharks at SHARKTOBERFEST!Enjoy shark science, shark experts, shark art, shark films, shark conservation, food and live music!Event Schedule- Main Event Free!!11am: All art & science activity stations open, food truck & refreshments available.11am-1pm: Live Music- Ukulele Friends 11:30am: Special Programs (see below)1pm: Ocean Life ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Main Event FREE!!
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk TalkThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger or docent on a guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 - 2000.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
'Queen' @Bay Area South Asian Film Festival Fame - Ethics - Science COLLIDE in Madhuri Shekhar’s Queen.Bees are dying everywhere. Governments are worried. The significant economic losses that the world faces due to systemic Colony Collapse Disorder are just the tip of the iceberg in the impact on humanity.  MIT, Stanford and a host of other top-notch universities are racing to ...
Do you sometimes see paw prints in mud or scat (poop) on the trails and assume that a dog left it? It could be from something else. Come along with me and I will show you how to distinguish and identify the markings of a gray fox. Gain some insights into the fox’s nature and ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Sunday, 09/30/18
Alcatraz Gardens Class Series: Botanical ImpressionsCreate your own plaster casting of amazing botanicals through this fun, easy and rewarding process. Sue Fordyce-Darden, an instructor from Alden Lane Nursery will guide you through the steps. Wet clay is used to impress flowers, stems and/or leaves, then the physical plants are removed and plaster is poured into ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $60
Hike at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve (SynBioBeta)Join Founder of SynBioBeta John Cumbers on a guided hike of the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve. Nestled high in the Oakland Hills, the preserve offers breathtaking views of the City of San Francisco from across the Bay and some amazing volcanic rock formations and wildlife.
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Low budget Moonshots to move science forward (BioCurious)Biotech starts with the misfits, the rebels, and the round pegs in the square holes. Join BioCurious for a workshop to explore some of the current problems we are working to solve. You will get the chance to work on hands on projects in BioHacking. We will demonstrate how we ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Community Science DayStep into the (close-toed) shoes of a scientist and explore biology at this community-wide science event! Visit UC Berkeley’s campus to experience a range of activities designed for visitors of all ages. Discover the fascinating power of DNA, the instruction manual for life. From the basic foundations of biology to the latest genome ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk TalkThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Agar Art - Painting with Bacteria! (Counter Culture Labs)Come and learn how to make colorful and unique living art. Design your own art piece using our colorful bacteria.Counter Culture Labs has been partnering with the American Society for Microbiology for their yearly Agar Art Contest (http://www.asm.org/agarart). This workshop will cover the basics of agar preparation and bacterial growth. Participants ...
Learn how to listen to the air. Join the Oakland Museum, the Exploratorium, and artist Rosten Woo for a listening party and the launch of artist project Mutual Air, a set of networked bells that will be installed throughout the city of Oakland. Each bell connects to global climate data and hyperlocal ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
The Art Inside of Us (Ulux)Join biologist, artist and designer Una Ryan for a gallery showing of her artwork.  Una’s work combines her life as a microscopist and now artist as she combines images of the very small under the microscope and the very big from satellite imagery.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
GATTACA Movie Screening (SynBioBeta)Join us for a screening of the 1997 thriller GATTACA that explores the widespread deployment of genetic engineering in the near future to achieve a more “perfect†society.Come early to enjoy Una’s fabulous The Art Inside Us art exhibit!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 10/01/18
Golden Gate Assembly (SynBioBeta)Join Founder of SynBioBeta John Cumbers for an early morning sojourn across the Golden Gate Bridge and discuss what makes the SF Bay Area a synthetic biology hub. Bagels and coffee will be provided.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Engineered Cells for Growing Fuels and Chemicals (JBEI)Scientists from LBNL’s leading synthetic biology research and scale-up institutes will provide an overview of programs at Berkely Lab to advance scientific boundaries of synthetic biology and accelerate commercial adoption of new technologies. Attendees will be given an overview of JBEI (Joint BioEnergy Institute), ABPDU (Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process ...
Where: EmeryvilleCost: Free
Suppressing cooling flows in massive galaxies with cosmic ray injection and turbulent stirringThe quenching "maintenance" and related "cooling flow" problems are important in galaxies from Milky Way mass through clusters. We investigate this in halos with masses ~1e12-1e14 solar mass, using non-cosmological high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations with the FIRE-2 (Feedback In Realistic Environments) stellar feedback model. We first focus on physics present without ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How do startups collaborate with corporations? (Digital Garage)In short, startups and corporations in the synthetic biology and genomics area working together looks simple on paper but can be challenging in real life. Join this event if you would like to hear how some companies are addressing those challenges and hear about their experiences and thoughts!The event will ...
Petroleum is the single largest source of energy used by humanity. Petroleum provides about 35% of total primary energy supply and meets ablut 95% of our transportation energy needs. Some argue that this dominance is short lived due to rapid expansion of electric vehicles, while others argue for a continued ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Opentrons Hands-On WorkshopLearn how to use the OT-2Get hands on with the world’s most affordable high-precision lab robot!Learn how to develop and run a protocol on the OT-2. There will be robots for you to use yourself, as well as members of the Opentrons team there to help you learn how to ...
Speaker: Tom Rudelius of the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Atomically Thin Integrated Circuits for Technology in the 21st CenturyManufacturing of paper, which started two thousand years ago, simplified all aspects of information technology: generation, processing, communication, delivery and storage. Similarly powerful changes have been seen in the past century through the development of integrated circuits based on silicon. In this talk, I will discuss how we can realize ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The 90 Minute Science Startup (Deep Science Ventures)Dominic Falcão, one of the founders of Deep Science Ventures, will be giving a fast-paced workshop for scientists and engineers. During this presentation, you will learn about the earliest stages of science venture creation, including how scientists and engineers can start companies, pre-idea, pre-team.Room 251
Retinal prostheses represent an exciting development in science, engineering, and medicine - an opportunity to create devices that exploit our knowledge of neural circuitry in order to replace or even enhance normal function. The lessons we learn in developing them may apply to many neural interfaces of the future. Existing ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Global BioFoundries (SynbiCITE)Join SynbiCITE to learn more about the transformative role BioFoundries will play in the future of synbio. Hear insights from both industry and academia on the importance of these facilities, and discuss the significance of collaboration between BioFoundries, leading to the establishment of a global alliance to further innovation and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
MACHINE LEARNING IN PHYSICSDr. Ehsan Khatami will discuss his work at San Jose State University where he uses a high-performance computational cluster to apply machine learning techniques to the solution of complex quantum problems.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
People and Robots SeminarAlthough wildly successful, deep learning systems are also extremely brittle; this is evidenced for example by the widespread possibility of adversarial attacks, specially crafted inputs meant to fool deep classifiers. This talk will discuss our recent work in develop deep classifiers that are provably robust to (certain classes of) perturbation attacks. Our ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Cold and Ultracold Molecules for Quantum Information and Particle PhysicsWide-ranging scientific applications have created growing interest in ultracold molecules. Heteronuclear bialkali molecules, assembled from ultracold atoms, enabled the study of long-range dipolar interactions and quantum-state-controlled chemistry, and recently have been brought to quantum degeneracy. There are currently several approaches to producing ultracold molecules: atom association, magnetic, electrical, centrifugal, off-resonant ...
Julia Prochnik will share her insight from her work building new partnerships in the government, creating standards for the electric industry, and navigating new pathways for the environment.Speaker: Julia Prochnik, Natural Resources Defense Council
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tech for Good: Using Data Science to Build Social EngagementThe Business & Leadership member-led forum is pleased to launch a new series highlighting the use of tech for good. This inaugural panel will focus on how social sector companies and nonprofit organizations are using innovations in data analytics, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), to foster social ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Tuesday, 10/02/18
Empowering Women Change-Makers in The Synthetic Biology IndustryJoin us on for breakfast discussion at Synbiobeta. Our panel of women leaders in synthetic biology will talk about their experiences in creating and launching companies as women in science.Room 251Â Â
Where: San FranciscoCost:
SynBioBeta 2018: The Global Synthetic Biology SummitSynBioBeta 2018 comes to San Francisco, uniting biological engineers, entrepreneurs and investors for the Global Synthetic Biology Summit.Meet over 1000 attendees and 100 speakers, sponsors and exhibitors who are applying engineered biology to revolutionize agriculture, medicine, energy, and the production of food, consumer products, chemicals and materials.Take part in over ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $1,300 - $1,950
Exoplanet detection and characterization with direct imagingIn this short talk I will review some of the recent results from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet survey, a campaign to search for self-luminous massive exoplanets in wide orbits around nearby, young stars via direct imaging. This technique is complementary to indirect detection methods such as radial velocity and ...
Astrophysical Tests of Gravitation and Dark Matter Dark energy and dark matter make up most of the energy content of the Universe; yet, we still know very little about either of them. During my talk, I will highlight two ways of using astrophysical data to constrain theories of dark energy and dark matter. First, I will discuss ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
'Photovoltaic Restoration of Sight in Retinal DegenerationStanford Physics/Applied Physics ColloquiumSpeaker: Daniel Palanker, Director of HEPL, Professor of Ophthalmology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants: Microbiome Magic - SOLD OUTLet’s get dirty! Join UC Berkeley Soil Scientists and Pivot Bio’s microbial scientists at the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and expand your knowledge of your garden’s soil microbiome. The microbiome is an intricate network of microbes that live in the soil and interact with your plants. You’ll leave with ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free, registration required
Odd Salon: RiskTales of peril and possibility, jeopardy and chance; of flirting with danger and being willing to lose it allSpeakers:Rebecca Power - The Double Life and Death of Chung Ling SooChris Carrico - Everyone Loves A BloodsportWillow Brugh - Life Insurance: Externalizing Risk for Improvement & ProfitNathan Parker - Risk, Revolution ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
San Francisco Orchid Society MeetingSkills Session: begins at 7:00pGeneral Meeting: begins at 7:30pmSkills Session: hands-on demonstrations of re-potting or other skills related to growing orchidsSpeaker: Every month we have a different guest lecturer - see our website for more info (http://www.orchidsanfrancisco.org)Plant Opportunity Table: A variety of orchids are available to all attendees at each ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Wednesday, 10/03/18
SynBioBeta 2018: The Global Synthetic Biology SummitSynBioBeta 2018 comes to San Francisco, uniting biological engineers, entrepreneurs and investors for the Global Synthetic Biology Summit.Meet over 1000 attendees and 100 speakers, sponsors and exhibitors who are applying engineered biology to revolutionize agriculture, medicine, energy, and the production of food, consumer products, chemicals and materials.Take part in over ...
Discovery Station: SeedsMost plants are rooted in place, which makes dispersing their fruits and seeds particularly important. Discover how plants have adapted to distribute their seeds using wind, water and animals to help the next generation flourish and spread. Meet the hitchhikers, helicopters, parachutes, and boats of the plant world!
Our understanding of the planet suffers from a profound geophysical observation bias - seismometers and other sensors are sparse and clustered on dry land. A new seismic recording technology, called distributed fiber-optic acoustic sensing (DAS), transforms standard telecommunication fiber-optic cables into arrays of single-component ground motion sensors. The distance between ...
Scientists are often puzzled when members of the public reject what we consider to be well-founded explanations. They can’t understand why the presentation of scientific data and theory doesn’t suffice to convince others of the validity of “controversial†topics like evolution and climate change. Recent research highlights the importance of ...
Join us for a conversation with Maureen Fan, co-founder and CEO at Baobab Studios, an Emmy-award winning virtual reality animation studio. Before Baobab Studios, Fan held several senior production and project management roles, including VP of Games at Zynga. With interests in film, gaming and the consumer web, she’s been ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold: Tales of Prosperity and ParadoxRenowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild’s best-selling book, Strangers in Their Own Land, takes her deep into Louisiana, where she meets with conservative communities near the heart of America’s oil industry. There, she meets Lee Sherman and many like him. Sherman works for a chemical company that, while dumping toxic waste into the Bayou, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
IMPACT Speaker Series - 'STROOP'Join us for the East Bay Premiere Screening of STROOP - Journey into the Rhino Horn War. A documentary film screening with live Q&A from the filmmakers Bonne De Bod and Susan Scott. This hard-hitting film explores the dangerous and intense world of the illegal wildlife trade with both stunning and harrowing ...
When light from space enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it is distorted and displaced, something our eyes perceive as “twinkling.â€Â A new technique, called adaptive optics, can remove a great deal of this distortion, essentially restoring much of the detail we’ve been robbed off in our view of the star and ...
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 ...
Learn how Codexis’ uses their CodeEvolver® technology to unlock the power of proteins™ for sustainable pharmaceutical manufacture, design of new food ingredient processes and products, and for creation of unique, targeted biotherapeutics. Visit their Silicon Valley headquarters for an introduction to protein engineering and for a laboratory tour that showcases ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
Measuring What’s Important to Your Cell - Seahorse Cell Analysis Solutions (Agilent)Come meet Darlene Solomon and her team, who will introduce you to the Seahorse live cell characterization platform.  With over 20,000 genes, 200,000 proteins and thousands of pathways, you can’t measure everything in a cell at once, but you can measure what provides the energy that drives its metabolism. Easy to ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Modeling baryonic effects for future weak lensing surveyThe modification of matter distribution due to baryonic physics is one of the major theoretical uncertainties in cosmological weak lensing measurements. Developing mitigation schemes for effects of baryons is crucial to assure robustness of cosmological analysis, and has potential to increase the constraining power by extracting information from small scale ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Signatures of massive neutrinos on Large Scale Structure Neutrino oscillation experiments have shown that there are at least two massive neutrino eigenstates, in a mass range that can produce observable signatures in current and future cosmological surveys. I will talk about the challenges and progress in correctly including the effects of massive neutrinos in N-body simulations of structure ...
Profiling Synthetic Biology Pathways and Metabolites by Mass Spectrometry (Agilent)Join Agilent CTO Darlene Solomon for a workshop on metabolomics and mass spectrometry. Understand the importance and capability of molecular identification and measurement of biological systems in advancing the design, test and analysis of synthetic biology, ultimately making biology easier to engineer.  This workshop will also include a lab tour and ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost:
Smart Additive Manufacturing: Bioinspired Algorithmic - Driven Design of CompositesAfter billions of years of evolution, it comes as no surprise that biological materials are identified as invaluable sources of inspiration in the search for new materials. Bone, teeth, and spider silk are high-performing biological composites that possess impressive mechanical properties unmatched by their engineering counterparts. Many required mechanical properties ...
Titanium is an ideal metal for green and sustainable catalysis - it is the 2nd most earth-abundant transition metal, and the byproducts of Ti reactions (TiO2) are nontoxic. However, a significant challenge of utilizing early transition metals for catalytic redox processes is that they typically do not undergo facile oxidation ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
$5 First Friday: The Future of SpaceOur natural curiosity to learn about the universe and our place within it has driven us to explore further into the outer reaches of space than before. Learn why we go, how we get there, and what we do there, in this fun space-themed night. Hands-on activities, presentations and a ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
swissnex Salon: Opening NightThe opening event of the swissnex Salon celebrates the theme of “Responsibility Towards Creation†with talks, performances, and experiences examining the challenges facing the fundamental values underlying democratic societies. The Salon proposes a radical change in the way we think about the role of science, technology, and creativity. In addition ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
The Thrill of Discovery: Seeing Gravitational Waves AND Light from a Neutron Star Collision"Holy Smokes! Seeing Gravitational Waves AND light from a Neutron Star Smashup? Now we're big time!â€On Aug 17, 2017, astronomers around the world saw an event they had waited a long, long time for, observing Gravitational Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation from a Binary Neutron Star merger. In this talk, Dr ...
