BioBarCamp

BioBarCamp is a unconference focused on life sciences, biotechnology, synthetic biology, personalized genomics & medicine, bioinformatics, do-it-yourself biology and related topics.

Schedule available here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=phPg75kT_QZbrTeFHhYJWPA&inv=attilacsordas%40gmail.com&t=339609701451780581

Attendance is free, but registration is necessary as there is only space for 75 participants, and meals aside from dinner will be provided (depending on available funds from sponsors).

Register by adding your name to the participant list on the BioBarCamp Google Group.

Schedule:

Stay tuned for details on the exact start times, but count on the entire day on August 7 and the afternoon/evening of August 6. The session schedule will be determined on August 6.

Relevant Links:

BioBarCamp Google Group - for any contact information and questions or email Attila Csordas: attilacsordasatgmail.com

The Institute for the Future - location of BioBarCamp

Google Map - location and suggested nearby hotels.

New to BarCamp?

See the BarCamp.org main page or Wikipedia for an explanation.

Other science-themed BarCamp events include BarCamb and SciBarCamp.

Sponsorship information:

BioBarCamp is still looking for additional sponsors to cover meals for participants. Companies can sponsor the event for $250, and individual donors may contribute as well (suggested individual donation: $50). Donations can be made through Paypal or by cheque. See the top of this page for sponsorship contact details.

Current sponsors: Nature Publishing Group 23andMe, Ion Torrent Systems Inc., Gahaga Biosciences Inc., Entelos, Scimatic Software, Ahram Biosystems, Wired, Labmeeting

Individual donors: Deepak Singh, Attila Csordas, John Cumbers, Mackenzie Cowell, Matthew O'Connor, Jim Shaw, Alexis Madrigal, Chris Patil, Joseph Jackson, Ricardo Vidal, Vivek Murthy

Participants:

(updated on July 30)

IMPORTANT!

We need confirmations from the following people:

Bess Ho

Joe Kaufman

If you know any of these people please ask them to confirm their attendance on the BioBarCamp google groups

1. Eva Amsen (writing, blog 1, blog 2) both days, vegetarian
2. Monya Baker (Nature Reports Stem Cells, The Niche) 7th, August
3. Alex Bangs (Entelos, bio, www.mydigitalhealth.com) both days, dinner on the 6th
4. Pedro Beltrao (blog, postdoc@UCSF)
5. Mackenzie Cowell (diybio.org, pobol, cis-action) both days, dinners included
6. Attila Csordas (Pimm) both days, dinners included
7. John Cumbers (Brown / NASA Ames) both days, dinners included
8. John Delacruz (Lab Website)
9. Daniel Erlanson (Sunesis Pharmaceuticals) both days
10. Jim Hardy (blog, web site)both days, dinners included
11. Andrew Hessel both days
12. Kambiz Kamrani (Anthropology.net)
13. Alexis Madrigal (Wired Science, home) 6th only
14. Jamie Mcquay (Scimatic Software)both days, dinners included
15. Cameron Neylon both days, dinners included
16. Michael Nielsen (home, blog) both days
17. Charles Parnot both days
18. Chris Patil (blog) both days
19. Heather Root 7th only, dinner too
20. Peter Tsai
21. Ricardo Vidal (blog, OWW)both days, dinners included
22. May Wang
23. Shirley Wu (psb workshop,blog), both days, dinner on the 7th only
24. Kevin Braithwaite
25. Nitin Gupta (UCSD webpage, personal web)both days, vegetarian.
26. Kurt Qemish
27. Adam Glickman (aglick35) InfoMonger of Technology
28. Michael Andreg 7th only
29. Matthew "Oki" O'Connor
30. Joseph Jackson both days, dinners included
31. Guido Nunez both days, dinners included
32. Siamak "Ash" Ashrafi
33. Joel Dudley both days
34. Hilary Spencer (NN) both days, vegetarian, dinners included
35. Aubrey de Grey (Aug 7th only, dinner)
36. Martin Brandon (Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine & Genetics)
37. Prasanth Potluri (Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine & Genetics)
38. Peter Binfield (PLoS ONE, Managing Editor)
39. Eri Gently
40. Jim Shaw
41. Jon Trowbridge (Google, info, added by ACs)
42. Nikesh Kotecha
43. Jason Myers (Ion Torrent Systems) both days
44. Dan Kaplan (VentureBeat) both days
45. Todd Huffman (blog) both days
46. Melanie Swan (MS Futures Group)(Blog) both days, vegetarian
47. Bess Ho
48. Issac Trotts
49. Ravi Vinayak (dinner on the 6th)
50. Mark Kaganovich (Labmeeting)both days, vegetarian
51. Jeremy England (Labmeeting)both days, vegetarian
52. Joseph Perla (Labmeeting) (Blog) both days, vegan
53. Gary Wolf (Contributing Editor, Wired, The Quantified Self added by ACs)
54. Lucy Southworth
55. Sarah Kummerfeld (Stanford) 6th only
56. Vivian Distler (IFTF) both days
57. Rod Falcon (IFTF) both days
58. Kaitlin Thaney (Science Commons, Creative Commons) both days, dinner on the 6th
59. Bryan Bishop www
60. Vivek Murthy (Epernicus, Brigham and Women's Hospital) both days, vegetarian, dinner on the 6th
61. Kristi Miller www.americanheart.org
62. Joe Kaufman
63. Russell Hanson (SciColab.com - for scientific collaboration, hansonr.org)
64. Michelle Cadieux LinkedIn
65. Kim Liu
66. Alex Griekspoor website 7th only
67. Amanda Mcdaniel August 6th only
68. Jonathan Stray (writer) both days
69. Silvia Santos (Ferrel lab)
70. Gerry Cagney http://proteomics.ucd.ie/members.html
71. William Andreg 7th
72. John Schloendorn both days, vegetarian, dinner too
73. Jeff Hall 7th only, dinner on the 7th
74. Xavier Deupi (Laboratory of Computational Medicine)
75. Shai Shen-Orr 7th, dinner too
76. Daniel Reda 7th
77. Alexandra Carmichael 7th

• Waiting List

Please Note** If you are on the list and can not make it please remove your name.