Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Anglerfish: MIT and Harvard 'How to Grow (Almost) Anything' HTGAA 2025 synthetic biology online laboratory course (for registered MIT and Harvard undergraduates, committed listeners, and global listeners) - 'HTGAA 2025 Week 14 || Biodesign & Biofabrication |'

 

MIT and Harvard 'How to Grow (Almost) Anything' HTGAA 2025 synthetic biology online laboratory course (for registered MIT and Harvard undergraduates, committed listeners, and global listeners) - 'HTGAA 2025 Week 14 || Biodesign & Biofabrication |'


Dear David, George, Joe, Suzanne Lee, Christina Agapakis, All,

Greetings and thanks so much for the excellent MIT and Harvard HTGAA 2025 (https://www.media.mit.edu/courses/htgaa/ and https://2025.htgaa.org/) from this Global Listener in the synthetic biology online laboratory course.  And thanks Christina and Suzanne for your excellent presentations. As founder, president, CEO (currently), professor at CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, how might we best explore collaborating even ... and potentially for WUaS matriculating students too from all ~200 countries even in the future - and as a seminal online laboratory course? How did the laboratory nodes in cities around the world work out? 

eg re 
How to Grow (Almost) Anything 2025 - Student Application
BioClub Tokyo
https://bioclub.tokyo/en/events/htgaa-2025/

Thanks David too for your great, excellent and wonderful teaching of HTGAA 2025 ... you didn't miss a beat throughout the course - far out!

Suzanne, all - 
Here's one of the questions I asked in the text chat : 
Thanks, fascinating and beautiful! (How could a 'high performance' - thanks HTGAA 's Patrick Boyle - #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForBiofabrics help … and think Google Street View with time slider, interoperable with GMaps, And at the GCellView level, GMoleculeView level too … and potentially for printing and production even … and keeping in mind value-design (low cost production with high quality output)?)

(plus - Greetings, Suzanne, and from MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School too … with Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering and Design wiki subjects (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) & with iterating MIT OCW courses, too, - potentially to develop in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything (#Twitter) ! - Scott (from the SF Bay Area) )


Christina, - 
Thanks so much for your great talk, and anthropological thinking especially too, (and greetings to Nick) ... (with further questions potentially for Nick in creating a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings as physical-digital ethnographic field site ... and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - (a new social science theory and method) ... and interoperable with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSynthethicBiology ... for STEM-wiki-virtual-world-graphy a new science theory and method) ...

blog posts with HTGAA in them - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/HTGAA (and new 'HTGAA  blog label, added retroactively)


As a #GlobalListener, and with yesterday's Tue 5/6/25 HTGAA lectures being the last this spring, it seems like I won't be joining any more sessions, so thank you. (David, was your interesting 'waving' goodbye at the end of the class also symbolizing holding onto a T's overhead handhold on Boston's MBTA train system?)

I think "How To Grow Almost Anything" 2025 has indeed helped to grow a 'high performance' #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForSyntheticBiology, a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs (my physical-digital ethnographic STEM field site in northern California, and especially MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, as well as especially a a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal and a #RealisticVirtualEarthForExtremeLongevity.

Scott




PS 
Notes - 


Christina Agapakis 
christina@oscillator.bio 





PPS

I've just added to all the blog posts from Jan 10, 2025 through May 5th, 2025, with HTGAA in them a new 'HTGAA' blog label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/HTGAA (in my daily blog) and regarding WUaS coming into conversation with this HTGAA 2025 - 








Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Mammoth Hot Springs (Yellowstone NP, WY): Thanks for the great MIT Harvard #HTGAA https://2025.htgaa.org/ lectures yesterday, Tu 3/11/25, and especially your tour-de-force talk, Professor Chris (Mason), which is here . . . (Dear David (Sun Kong), Chris (Mason), George (Church), Peter (Norvig), and All, ) * Again, and re the text chat - Chris, thanks and excellent: Hypothetically how could humans live to 130 years (so longer than 122 years of age per Jeanne Calment d.1997, I think, at 122 yo) with extreme longevity and aging reversal genetic drug therapies Chris Mason (replying to my question above) - "Reprogramming somatic and stem cells, but LOTS of them" * * Greetings from near Harbin Hot Springs, my physical-digital ethnographic & STEM field site and in seeking to create a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs, as well as a #RealisticVirtualEarth emerging with this (and think Google Street View with Time Slider, GMaps, GEarth, and at the GCellView and GMoleculeView levels too and with TensorFlowAI).





Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Greenstone belt: With cells likely to be 3.5 billion years old ... How did Life Begin about 3.5 billion years ago? Best hypotheses ? * How to code for #CellReplication in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCells, #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution, #RealisticVirtualEarthForProteins re #GCellView 'in' #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider & re #LifeBegins?: https://g.co/gemini/share/efeda2f9fa66 -https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-7-007-7-06x-cell-biology/ #HTGAAbiologists #HTGAA ? * * * What is #HCCconsciousness? - Can one argue that consciousness, awareness, sentience, and subjective experience creates "Reality" (virtually)? ! In what ways could consciousness, (awareness, sentience, and subjective experience) be place specific ? * Consciousness @ #HeartConsciousnessChurchHCC aka #HarbinHotSprings (& re @HarbinBook & emerging #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #MeditationWUaS from our #HomeBathtubs #VirtualHarbin)? What is #HCCconsciousness? #WarmPoolsMeditation studying these #PhilosophicalQs? #ConsciousnessWUaS~ * * Can one argue that Yoga philosophical consciousness or awareness creates "Reality" ? This NIH abstract is well written - "Neuroscience of the yogic theory of consciousness" Vaibhav Tripathi & Pallavi Bharadwaj



Wednesday, February 12, 2025

peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus): 20 years ago #HarbinSleepingDeck beginning @HarbinBook #HarbinEthnography #AnthropologicalFieldWork for #NakedHarbinEthnography 2016 book (& 4 further #HarbinInspired books @WUaSPress -http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) & #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualHarbin :https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 ~ * * * How might we explore, further, starting the first flagship physical-digital WUaS Educational Services' Store / WUaS Corporation (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - which is the beginning of the for-profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California) in the fairly recently closed Walmart in Pittsburgh (in one of the pictures above) - and as a way to do outreach for prospective students for free MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch degrees from home ? . . . and for robotics especially * * * Developments in Canyon 94516 * * Pomo language (Lake county)

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Indian flapshell turtle: Recording of M 2/10/25 @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsQA #WUaSInnovating w #MLandAIWUaS How with #WUaSwikis? & see #PeterNorvig INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article ~ * * * First #ReadWriteEditDNA in a #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleCoLab -https://youtube.com/shorts/02Yohe5n5vo -https://colab.research.google.com/ @davidsunkong @geochurch w #HTGAAbios #HTGAAbiologists & for (#UniversityResearch in #RealisticVirtualHarbin) & #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneTherapies? * * * Middletown Library & Senior Center - US Repesentative from CA Mike Thompson - Tu 2/11/25 - how might we explore developing World Univ & Sch in the native American languages for example in Lake County, like Lake Miwok and Pomo languages (eg from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages and in the Lake Miwok and Pomo languages for example)?






Thursday, January 30, 2025

Strix occidentalis caurina (northern spotted owl): Dear European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL-EBI, Aleena (Mushtaq Stolworthy), Anna (Swan), Ewan (Birney, EMBL Director), MIT Media Lab HTGAA faculty lead David (Sun Kong), Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George (Church), Peter (Norvig, Google AI Director), All, Greetings, and thanks for the great Ensembl Genome Browser (2025) presentation yesterday Th 1/29/25 from near Cambridge England - Introducing the new Ensembl Genome Browser (2025) https://youtu.be/K7cmwK1ODnc . Asked - Where might the time function of a changing genome over the life of an organism become part of the ENSEMBL browser? (At MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch we are seeking to create a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenomics (in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article ... * And how to bring together, potentially, the developing EMBL Ensembl Genome Browser with the 2025 edition of ‘How To Grow (Almost) Anything’ (HTGAA) synthetic biology course (from MIT and Harvard for registered students, as well as #GlobalListeners like myself) ?

















PPPS


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HTGAA 2025 Week 14 || Biodesign & Biofabrication |

Inbox

David S. Kong

Mon, May 5, 11:20 PM (2 days ago)
to David
Dear HTGAA 2025,

We are in our final two weeks of class! For this week’s class on ‘Biodesign and Biofabrication,’ we are honored to have joining us Suzanne Lee, CEO and Founder of BioFabricate, and Christina Agapakis, founder of Oscillator. Suzanne and Christina are both pioneers in bio design and have explored the interfaces of design, art, synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, and industry, for more than ten years each.

Suzanne will speak on: "Biodesign for fashion: how eccentric became essential”, and Christina’s talk is entitled "More art than science: designing stories, products, and technologies for impact”.

Our agenda is below; please note the lecture timing, and please be on-time at 2p ET!

E14-341

2:05-3:00p ET: Suzanne
3:00-4:00p ET: Christina
4:00-4:10p ET: BREAK
4:10-5:00p ET: Student Final Project check-ins


//HTGAA 2025 FINAL PROJECTS//

(1) For all MIT, Harvard, and Committed Listeners, please find updated and detailed final project guidance here:


A reminder that you will be both (1) presenting your final project AND (2) documenting your final project via your Notion page. 

(2) Committed Listeners (CLs) should sign up for Final Project presentations on May 14th by submitting the sign up form. Deadline: May 7th 23:59 ET.

CLs that sign up will receive and email confirming their allocated time slot (might be different from their preferred one).

(3) CLs will have 3 minutes to present their Final Project presentations using 3 presentation slides via a google slide deck we will share! 

(4) For Committed Listeners, please keep in mind the following deadlines below:

  • May 14th, Final Project Presentations
  • May 28 at 11:59p ET, ALL DOCUMENTATION (including weekly homework, final projects) DUE
  • June 11 - we will inform Committed Listeners regarding whether they have completed the requirements for an HTGAA Certificate of Completion!
  • June 18 - HTGAA Global Graduation Ceremony

See you all on Tomorrow!

Best,
David

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Suzanne Lee is the founder of Biofabricate, the global platform where design meets biology to advance the future of sustainable materials. A designer turned biotechnology pioneer, Suzanne has led the shift from fossil-based textiles to biofabricated alternatives. In 2002, she coined the term Biocouture™ after growing materials from microbes for fashion, sparking a new materials revolution based on biology. Today, Biofabricate champions a worldwide network of innovators creating next-generation materials with people and planet in mind, serving biomaterial startups, consumer brands, and investors through events, advisory, and learning resources. 

With over two decades at the intersection of design, biology, and sustainability, Suzanne has become a recognized thought leader whose work has been widely featured in global media and exhibited in museums around the world. Her pioneering Biocouture™ project was listed among the best innovations in Time magazine, and her work was the first biofabricated item to have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. She is the author of Fashioning the Future: tomorrow’s wardrobe, and serves as a special advisor on biomaterials to leading sustainability initiatives. A TED Senior Fellow, she is also a Launch Material Innovator—an initiative of NASA, Nike, USAID, and the US State Department. Formerly, she served as Chief Creative Officer at biomaterials startup Modern Meadow. Through Biofabricate and her global advocacy, she continues to shape the future of materials innovation. 

Christina Agapakis is an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative and human futures for biotechnology. During her time in academia and a decade at Ginkgo Bioworks, she has built organisms, brands, teams, products, and cultures across the bioeconomy and biosecurity, started two magazines, engineered photosynthetic animals, launched a Biodesign store, resurrected the smell of extinct flowers, put a T-Rex on the NY stock exchange, made COVID testing available for millions of American students, and made cheese with the bacteria from human skin, among other projects. Today, she lives with an anthropologist and a menagerie of children and greyhounds in Somerville, MA and is the founder of Oscillator, a consultancy helping early-stage biotech stories come to life.


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David Sun Kong, Ph.D.
Director
Community Biotechnology Initiative
MIT Media Lab







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