The Science and Culture of Biohacking
Maker Faire Bay Area 2017
May 19th-21st
Join us for an engaging discussion with Maker Executive Editor Mike Senese, Patrik D'haeseleer, founder of Counter Culture Labs and Maria Chavez, Director of Community Engagement at BioCurious. They'll talk about the science, spaces, and community of biohackers in the San Francisco Bay Area and what amazing new projects people are working on.
Mike Senese
Mike Senese is the Executive Editor of Make: magazine. He is also a TV host, starring in various engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It. An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with remote-control aircraft, doing amateur woodworking, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza.
http://makezine.com
Maria Chavez
Maria is a biohacker and project manager. A new Board Member at BioCurious, in the past 4 years she has organized our events, classes and community projects. She is also a Board Member of Real Vegan Cheese, an open source project to create a synthetic cheese from genetically modified yeast. She is an adviser to the Latin American Network of BioHacker Spaces. She has been a leader on two iGEM teams, in 2014 and 2015, and is a member of multiple community lab science projects. Most recently she joined the Open Insulin project to create an open-source form of insulin.
Patrik D'haeseleer
Patrik D’haeseleer is a mild mannered bioinformatician by day, mad scientist by night. Having gotten into systems biology and synthetic biology via EE and CS, he jumped on the opportunity to learn the wetlab side when he heard about DIYbio. He’s been with BioCurious since they opened, and founded Counter Culture Labs in Oakland. He is also one of the main instigators behind the DIY BioPrinter, Ghost Heart, DNA Daiquiri, Jello Shot Electrophoresis, Vegan Cheese, Open Insulin, and more.
http://www.counterculturelabs.org/
