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A celebration of Synthetic Biology across the San Francisco Bay Area

September 30 – October 6

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A week of spectacular events:

Hike at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve Low budget Moonshots to move science forward Community Science Day: Be a scientist! Agar Art – Painting with Bacteria! The Art Inside All of Us GATTACA Movie Screening Golden Gate Assembly Engineered Cells for Growing Fuels How do startups collaborate with corporations? Opentrons Hands-On Workshop The 90 Minute Science Startup Global BioFoundries Empowering Women Change-Makers


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6800 Skyline Boulevard, Oakland 3060 Coronado Drive, Santa Clara Innovative Genomics Institute 2151 Berkeley Way 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland San Francisco Art Institute 2 Marina Boulevard San Francisco Art Institute 2 Marina Boulevard Golden Gate Bridge Plaza (SF side) Joint BioEnergy Institute 5885 Hollis Street DG717 717 Market Street #100 Mission Bay Conference Center 1675 Owens Street Mission Bay Conference Center 1675 Owens Street Mission Bay Conference Center 1675 Owens Street Mission Bay Conference Center 1675 Owens Street

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A week of spectacular events:

Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants: Microbiome Magic Proctor & Gamble Afterparty SynBio Challenges and Solution Pathways Introduction to Echo® Handler and Acoustic TXTL Lunch with Labcyte Miniaturized Nextera XT for Efficient NGS Biodesign Towenhall at The Tech Museum Lab Data to Machine Learning in 30 Seconds SynBio and Design Thinking Biohackers, Open Science & Community Labs Join the Protein (Engineering) Revolution eahorse Cell Analysis Solutions Profiling Biology Pathways by Mass Spectrometry The Future is Now Company Showcase and End of Week Party


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Berkely Botanic Gardens 479 Jessie St. San Francisco SalesForce Tower 415 Mission Street UCSF GH-S261 Genomics Hall 16th Street UCSF GH-S261 Genentech Hall 16th Street UCSF GH-S261 Genomics Hall 16th Street The Tech Museum 201 South Market Street Santa Jose 525 Market Street, 2nd Floor (Courtyard Entrance) 39655 Eureka Drive, Newark 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland 400 Penobscot Drive, Redwood City Agilent Technologies, 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd Agilent Technologies, 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd Mission Bay Conference Center 1675 Owens Street Bonneville Labs 626 Bancroft Way #STE A, Berkeley

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Low Budget Moonshots to Move Science Forward

Biotech starts with the misfits, the rebels, and the round pegs in the square holes. Join BioCurious for a workshop to explore some of the current problems we are working to solve. You will get the chance to work on hands on projects in BioHacking. We will demonstrate how we are working to push the community science into solutions for global problems and the disruptions biohackers are making in science.

Sunday, September 30, 2018 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

BioCurious Labs, 3060 Coronado Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054

With BioCurious Labs


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Join Founder of SynBioBeta John Cumbers on a guided hike of the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve. Nestled high in the Oakland Hills, the preserve offers breathtaking views of the City of San Francisco from across the Bay and some amazing volcanic rock formations and wildlife.

Sunday, September 30th 2018, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT6800 Skyline Boulevard Oakland, CA 94619

in Contra Costa CountyHike at Sibley Volcanic Preserve


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Be a Scientist and Explore DNA!

Step into the (close-toed) shoes of a scientist and explore biology at this community-wide science event! Come to the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) on Berkeley campus to experience a range of activities designed for visitors of all ages. Discover the fascinating power of DNA, the instruction manual for life. From the basic foundations of biology to the latest genome editing technologies, there’s something for everyone.

Sunday, September 30, 2018 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT

Innovative Genomics Institute, 2151 Berkeley Way, CA 94720

With the Innovative Genomics Institute


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Agar Art – Painting with Bacteria!

Come and learn how to make colorful and unique living art. Design your own art piece using our colorful bacteria.

This workshop will cover the basics of agar preparation and bacterial growth. Participants will be able to create their own works on provided petri plates. Artists will also be given access to a laser cutter and 3-D printer for more ambitious works. Selected art works will be on display at the SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Summit while they continue to develop.

Sunday, September 30, 2018 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDT

Counter Culture Labs, 4799 Shattuck Avenue Oakland, CA 94114

With Counter Culture Labs


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The Art Inside All of Us

Join biologist, artist and designer Una Ryan for a gallery showing of her artwork. Una’s work combines her life as a microscopist and now artist as she combines images of the very small under the microscope and the very big from satellite imagery.

Sunday, September 30, 2018 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

San Francisco Art Institute, 2 Marina Boulevard San Francisco, CA 94123

Hosted by Una Ryan and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati


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A Screening of GATTACA

Join us for a screening of the 1997 thriller GATTACA that explores the widespread deployment of genetic engineering in the near future to achieve a more "perfect" society.

Sunday, September 30, 2018

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT

San Francisco Art Institute, 2 Marina Boulevard San Francisco, CA 94123, San Francisco, CA

Hosted by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati


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Golden Gate Assembly

Join Founder of SynBioBeta John Cumbers for an early morning sojourn across the Golden Gate Bridge and discuss what makes the SF Bay Area a synthetic biology hub. Bagels and coffee will be provided.

Monday, October 1st 2018 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDTGolden Gate Bridge Plaza (SF side), San Francisco, CA 94129

at the Golden Gate Bridge Plaza


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Engineered Cells for Growing Fuels and Chemicals

Join Peter Matlock and Todd Pray for an overview of JBEI and the ABPDU, followed by a tour of each facility. Learn about the latest JBEI technologies to convert biomass into fuels and chemicals using synthetic biology, advanced solvents, and fermentation, and Industry-leading services offered by ABPDU to help clients demonstrate and scale-up industrial biotechnology processes.

Monday, October 1, 2018 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

Joint BioEnergy Institute 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA 94608

With the Joint BioEnergy Institute


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This event will include a panel discussion, moderated by Richard Goold, who is the genome expert and former CEO of StationX which was sold to Roche. The first panel session will be with the CEO of Awakens, a consumer genomics startup helping non-genomics companies to build DNA-personalized products through simple white-label API solution. And, the second panel discussion will be with the CEO of Tupac Bio, which is making software for synthetic biology companies, and two of Tupac Bio's clients; Spiber and Finless.

Monday, Oct. 1st, 2018 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PDT

DG717, 717 Market Street #100 San Francisco, CA 94103

How do Startups Collaborate with Corporations?With Digital Garage


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Opentrons OT-2 Hands-On Workshop

Get hands on with the world's most affordable high-precision lab robot!

Learn how to develop and run a protocol on the OT-2. There will be robots for you to use yourself, as well as members of the Opentrons team there to help you learn how to automate your lab's workflow. We welcome anyone interested in learning about lab robots, no matter your level of experience with automation platforms!

Monday, October 1, 2018 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDT

Mission Bay Conference Center, 1675 Owens Street #251 San Francisco, CA 94158

With Opentrons


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The 90 Minute Science Startup

Dominic Falcão, one of the founders of Deep Science Ventures, will be giving a fast-paced workshop for scientists and engineers. During this presentation, you will learn about the earliest stages of science venture creation, including how scientists and engineers can start companies, pre-idea, pre-team.



With Deep Science Ventures


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Global Biofoundries

Join SynbiCITE to learn more about the transformative role BioFoundries will play in the future of synbio. Hear insights from both industry and academia on the importance of these facilities, and discuss the significance of collaboration between BioFoundries, leading to the establishment of a global alliance to further innovation and growth for the synbio sector.



With SynbiCITE


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Proctor & Gamble Afterparty at IndieBio

Come join Proctor & Gamble at IndieBio’s lab in the heart of San Francisco to celebrate Day 1 of SynBioBeta 2018.

IndieBio is the world’s largest life sciences seed accelerator, with 67 funded startups since March 2015. Companies from all over the world that solve problems in a wide range of industries including biotech, healthcare, agtech, neurotech, regenerative medicine, biomaterials and the future of food apply to be part of a four-month acceleration program that includes $250,000 in funding, dedicated mentorship and 24/7 access to a co-working space.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM PDT

IndieBio 479 Jessie St. San Francisco, CA, 94103


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Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants:Microbiome Magic

Let’s get dirty! Join Pivot Bio’s microbial scientists at the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and expand your knowledge of your garden’s soil microbiome. A panel of microbiologists from the UC Berkeley and local agricultural start-up Pivot Bio will be led by moderator Dr. Lew Feldman.

Tuesday, October 2 2018 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley,

200 Centennial Dr, CA 94720

With Pivot Bio


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SynBio Challenges and Solution Pathways: A VC Perspective

From the fashion industry to semiconductor technology, advances in SynBio are helping drive novel applications across a diversity of verticals. However, to achieve its full promise, SynBio has to overcome some key challenges both on the technology side and on the commercial side. This session presents a technology roadmap for addressing these challenges, investment strategies, and examples of innovative new approaches to accelerate both research and adoption.

Thursday, October 4 2018 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

Mubadala Ventures, Salesforce Tower

415 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

With SRC and Mubadala


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Introduction to the Echo® Liquid Handler and Acoustic TXTL Circuit Optimization

Meet Rich Ellson, founder and CTO of Labcyte as he guides you through an introduction to acoustic liquid handling. This will be followed by a hands on activity, run by Jared Bailey of Labcyte, exploring cell-free transcription-translation systems (TXTL) which provide a tantalizing route to the creation of biological circuits.

This event will be followed by a hosted lunch.

Thursday, October 4, 2018 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

UCSF GH-S261 Genentech Hall, Second Floor

600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158

With Labcyte


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Miniaturized Nextera XT for Efficient NGS Using the Echo Liquid Handler

Next-generation sequencing provides a breadth and depth of genomics information that was previously unobtainable. By using the Labcyte® Echo® 525 Liquid Handler, we will demonstrate a 20-fold miniaturization of the Illumina Nextera XT library preparation process, decreasing the cost to run NGS. This allows researchers to liberally apply the revolutionary technology for their challenges.

Thursday, October 4, 2018 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

UCSF GH-S261 Genentech Hall, Second Floor

600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158

With Labcyte


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Biodesign Town Hall at The Tech

Join us for a day trip to The Tech for a town hall style conversation with leaders in biodesign set against the backdrop of the Tech’s new permanent Biodesign Studio exhibit. As a fun bonus, the Tech curators will guide us on a behind-the-scenes tour of how the experiences were developed to successfully inspire a new generation about the possibilities of biotech. Included are free museum tickets and a hands-on bacterial inks workshop.

Thursday, October 4, 2018 11:30 AM – 3:30 PM PDT

The Tech Museum of Innovation

201 South Market Street, Santa Jose, CA 95113

With the BioDesign Challenge and the Tech Museum of Innovation


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Lab Data to Machine Learning in 30 Seconds

Join Riffyn, Amazon Web Services, and an esteemed panel of thought leaders from GSK, Amyris, Novartis & DRx Capital and others for an afternoon/evening of food/cocktails and discussion of machine learning & AI in the life sciences. AWS & Riffyn will provide brief introductions to their toolkits for experiment design, data shaping / integration, and machine learning / AI. This will be followed by a panel discussion of the rapid advance of machine learning & AI in biotech and pharmaceutical R&D. Free and open to anyone (with pre-registration).


AWS Loft 525 Market Street, 2nd Floor (Courtyard Entrance),

San Francisco, CA

With Riffyn


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SynBio and Design Thinking: Multidisciplinary Paradigms and Possibilities

Please join our SynBioBeta 2018 satellite session, for an evening of learning, engaging, and expanding. Our diverse panel of experts will lead us in discussion, followed by a short hands-on workshop. We’ll also provide a tour of our Innovation Labs and BSL2 lab, which continues to inform how we integrate synthetic biology and other disciplines, and why we believe that traditional disciplines can reinforce one other, create new thinking, stretch the borders of “doable”, and thus, allow us to build new “things”.


Triple Ring Technologies

39655 Eureka Drive Newark, CA 94560

With Tripple Ring Technologies


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Biohackers, Open Science & Community Labs

Community labs enable cutting-edge research on a shoe-string budget. We will be presenting some of our successful community projects at Counter Culture Labs that have turned into international collaborations, such as Open Insulin, Real Vegan Cheese, and the Kombucha Genomics project, and have a spirited discussion around what it means to do Open Science.


Counter Culture Labs 4799 Shattuck Avenue Oakland, CA 94114

With Counter Culture Labs


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Join the Protein (Engineering) Revolution

Learn how Codexis’ uses their CodeEvolver® technology to unlock the power of proteins™ for sustainable pharmaceutical manufacture, design of new food ingredient processes and products, and for creation of unique, targeted biotherapeutics. Visit their Silicon Valley headquarters for an introduction to protein engineering and for a laboratory tour that showcases their cutting-edge technology.

Friday, October 5, 2018 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

Codexis, Inc. 400 Penobscot Drive Redwood City, CA 94063

With Codexis


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Measuring What’s Important to Your Cell – Seahorse Cell Analysis Solutions

Come meet Darlene Solomon and her team, who will introduce you to the Seahorse live cell characterization platform. Easy to use, the Agilent Seahorse assays use label-free technology to detect discrete changes in cell bioenergetics in real-time, providing a window into the critical functions driving cell signaling, proliferation, activation, toxicity and biosynthesis. This workshop will also include a lab tour and understanding of Agilent’s range of instrumentation and workflow solutions for quantifying and analyzing biological activity.

Friday, October 5, 2018 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

Agilent Technologies 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard

Santa Clara, CA 95051

With Agilent


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Profiling Synthetic Biology Pathways and Metabolites by Mass Spectrometry

Join Agilent CTO Darlene Solomon for a workshop on metabolomics and mass spectrometry. This workshop will also include a lab tour and understanding of Agilent’s range of innovative instrumentation, databases and informatics tools for discovery and targeted metabolomics solutions.

Friday, October 5, 2018 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

Agilent Technologies 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard

Santa Clara, CA 95051

With Agilent


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The Future is Now

BioBuilder presents a hands-on workshop, encouraging young scientists to put on their goggles and gloves to explore the future through synthetic biology. "The Future is Now" will bring students and teachers together to present cutting-edge topics and preform team oriented lab-based activities to jump-start their careers or passions for biology.

Saturday, October 6, 2018 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT


With BioBuilder


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Company Showcase and End of Week Party

Join Boneville Labs, a Bio-Co-Working space in Berkeley, and its member companies for Drinks, DJ’s and a close out of SynBioBeta Week in style.

Saturday, October 6, 2018 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM PDT

Bonneville Labs 626 Bancroft Way #STE A Berkeley, CA 94710

With Bonneville Labs


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