DIYBio is Rolling with Momentum

The DIYbio Community - Presented at Ignite Boston 5 (2009) from mac cowell on Vimeo.

I just found this video on Mac's Vimeo page, and I had to share it. It's like a Cliff notes for the DIYBio community over the past few months. It's great of him to do, because it's not easy to keep up with all the posts on the DIYBio mailing list (so much so that there are now sub-lists to raise the signal to noise ratio).

DIYBio Boston Partnership

I'm very pleased to announce a tentative partnership between the DIYBio Boston iGEM team and the UMass Amherst iGEM team. This will be DIYBio Boston's first foray into iGEM, like us at UMass, but DIYBio Boston member Mackenzie Cowell is no noob to iGEM. He has helped run iGEM since 2006, and all one needs to do is watch one of his iGEM videos on Vimeo to get an idea of how strong his grasp of synthetic biology really is.


Jam08 Live: UC Berkeley - Clonebots from mac cowell on Vimeo.

So, while the partnership is tentative, I think both parties can benefit a lot from such a relationship, and I'm on the edge of my seat with excitement thinking about what we can do.

Microbial Genetics 330

Today in 330 I made a short presentation about iGEM and the UMass iGEM team. I think I met some of the first members of the team today :)