BioBarCamp is a unconference focused on life sciences, biotechnology, synthetic biology, personalized genomics & medicine, bioinformatics, do-it-yourself biology and related topics.
Date: August 6/7, 2008
Location: The Institute for the Future, 124 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94301
SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Wed Aug 6th
9.00am - 12.00am: DIYBioDIY demo (activity and venue to be confirmed)
12.30pm - 1.30pm: Registration and lunch
1.30pm - 1.45pm: Welcome
1.45pm - 3.45pm: Introductions
3.45pm - 4.15pm: Coffee break
4.30pm - 5.45pm: Keynote talk
5.45pm - 6.15pm: Drinks reception
6.30pm - onwards: Dinner venue(s) TBC
8.30pm - Bar TBC
Thu Aug 7th
8.30am - 9.15am: Breakfast (provided)
9.15am - 9.30am: Welcome & announcements for day 2
9.30am - 11.00am: Session 1
11.00am - 11.30am: Coffee break
11.30am - 1.00pm: Session 2
1.00pm - 2.00pm: Lunch (provided)
2.00pm - 3.30pm: Session 3
3.30pm - 4.00pm: Coffee break
4.00pm - 5.30pm: Session 4
5.30pm - 6.15pm: Drinks reception
6.30pm - onwards: Dinner venue(s) TBC
8.30pm - Bar TBC
Attendance is free, but registration is necessary as there is only space for 75 participants, and meals 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
Participants:
(updated on July 30)
- Eva Amsen (writing, blog 1, blog 2) both days, vegetarian
- Monya Baker (Nature Reports Stem Cells, The Niche) 7th, August
- Alex Bangs (Entelos, bio, www.mydigitalhealth.com) both days, dinner on the 6th
- Pedro Beltrao (blog, postdoc@UCSF)
- Jason Bobe (blog , www.personalgenomes.org, www.DIYbio.org)
- Mackenzie Cowell (diybio.org, pobol, cis-action)
- Attila Csordas (Pimm)
- John Cumbers (Brown / NASA Ames)
- John Delacruz
- Daniel Erlanson (Sunesis Pharmaceuticals)
- Jim Hardy (blog, web site)
- Andrew Hessel both days
- Kambiz Kamrani (Anthropology.net)
- Alexis Madrigal (Wired Science, home) 6th only
- Jamie Mcquay (Scimatic Software)
- Cameron Neylon
- Michael Nielsen (home, blog)
- Charles Parnot
- Chris Patil (blog)
- Heather Root
- Jonathan Rothberg (myhomepage)
- Deepak Singh (blog)
- Peter Tsai
- Ricardo Vidal (blog, OWW)both days, dinners included
- May Wang
- Shirley Wu (psb workshop blog)
- Kevin Braithwaite
- Nitin Gupta (UCSD webpage, personal web)both days, vegetarian.
- Kurt Qemish
- Adam Glickman (aglick35) InfoMonger of Technology
- Michael Andreg 7th only
- Matthew "Oki" O'Connor
- Joseph Jackson
- Guido Nunez
- Siamak "Ash" Ashrafi
- Joel Dudley
- Hilary Spencer (Nature Precedings)
- Aubrey de Grey (Aug 7th only)
- Martin Brandon (Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine & Genetics)
- Prasanth Potluri (Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine & Genetics)
- Peter Binfield (PLoS ONE, Managing Editor)
- Eri Gently
- Jim Shaw
- Jon Trowbridge (Google, info, added by ACs)
- Victor Hanson-Smith (home)
- Nikesh Kotecha
- Jason Myers (Ion Torrent Systems)
- Dan Kaplan (VentureBeat)
- Todd Huffman (blog)
- Melanie Swan (MS Futures Group)(Blog)
- Bess Ho
- Issac Trotts
- Ravi Vinayak
- Mark Kaganovich (Labmeeting)both days, vegetarian
- Jeremy England (Labmeeting)both days, vegetarian
- Joseph Perla (Labmeeting) (Blog) both days, vegan
- Gary Wolf (Contributing Editor, Wired, The Quantified Self added by ACs)
- Lucy Southworth
- Sarah Kummerfeld (Stanford) 6th only
- Vivian Distler (IFTF) both days
- Rod Falcon (IFTF) both days
- Kaitlin Thaney (Science Commons, Creative Commons)
- Bryan Bishop www
- Vivek Murthy (Epernicus, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
- Kristi Miller www.americanheart.org
- Joe Kaufman
- Russell Hanson (SciColab.com - for scientific collaboration, hansonr.org)
- Michelle Cadieux LinkedIn
- Kim Liu
- Alex Griekspoor website
- Amanda Mcdaniel August 6th only
- Jonathan Stray (writer)
- Silvia Santos (Ferrel lab)
- Gerry Cagney http://proteomics.ucd.ie/members.html
- William Andreg 7th
- John Schloendorn 7th
- Jeff Hall 7th
- Xavier Deupi (Laboratory of Computational Medicine)7th
Please Note** If you are on the list and can not make it please remove your name.
