BioBarCamp

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

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)

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

• Waiting List

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