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Such an honor to collaborate and share the stage with @xcaminos (@thereefline) and @skylartibbits (@selfassemblylab) on our “Reef of the Future” project. I could not be more excited to “Grow a Supercoral” together and to invite you all as co-designers and co-scientists along with our @howtogrowalmostanything students. We need planetary-scale empathy, compassion, and care for the corals and oceans. Join us today!!! 🪸🌊❤️

#mitfuturefest #supercoral

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It was an honor to be interviewed by @johnkwerner at @mitfuturefest as a part of a session on “The Next 250”: ideas that will shape the next 250 years of civilization.

I share a few thoughts on the importance of centering service to communities in how we design technology.

#davidsunkong #mitfuturefest

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This Fall, we are launching a new @mitmedialab course for the first time: “How to Biomanufacture (Almost) Anything (HTBAA)!”

Instructors:
@davidsunkong, @mitmedialab
@george.church, @harvardmed
Joseph Jacobson, @mitmedialab

In HTBAA, students will explore the frontiers of biomanufacturing, from microbial, mammalian, and cell-free systems, to automation technologies spanning microfluidics, desktop liquid handling robots, and cloud labs.

And, for the first time, HTBAA students will have access to the new @mitcloudlab for Learning!

Thanks to funding from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and @massgovernor Maura Healey, we are establishing the @mitcloudlab for Learning!

Registered HTBAA students from MIT, Harvard, and Wellesley will have the opportunity to conduct hands-on work with the Cloud Lab, while global HTBAA students will be able to conduct experiments remotely via one of our HTGAA nodes.

Join us to explore the cutting-edge of robotics, AI, and biology!!

🔗 Applications are now open, apply via link in the bio!

📆 Deadline: September 11 at 11:59p PT

Apply today, and please share with students, educators, and communities who might be interested!

Poster design: @ronancdonovan

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It was an honor to host Massachusetts Senator @edmarkey at the @mitmedialab earlier this summer!

It was a privilege to share with him our national and global education mission with @howtogrowalmostanything, and also our new MIT Cloud Lab for Learning, where we are advancing robotics, AI, and life sciences education for students throughout the Commonwealth.

I look forward to working with the Senator on advancing this important mission in the months and years ahead!

And, it was fun to (accidentally) help moonlight as his speech writer 🤪😆

Thanks for the video 🎥 @laurenramlan!
Cover photo: @jimbodays

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Another year of How to Grow Almost Anything, in the books! 🌱 🧬  
We just wrapped another round of HTGAA @howtogrowalmostanything with MIT Media Lab @mitmedialab @communitybiotech @davidsunkong and we did it mid-lab-move, which is a special kind of chaos we don’t recommend but definitely survived. 
We’ve had over 30+ graduates and their projects, with weeks of mycelium sculpting, microfluidics, cell-free systems, Gibson assemblies, CRISPR labs, cloud labs, Opentrons runs, and enough transformations and dodgy gel electrophoresis runs to lose count of. 
Want in? Join us for our next cohort in 2027, and keep your eyes peeled, because a new MIT course is brewing at Lifefabs soon 👀
  Once again a huge thanks to our incredible Lifefabs MIT HTGAA TA team, and the core MIT Team, none of this would happen without you: @digby.usher @inger.legue @w112233442 @ronancdonovan @shaniceotersen @matt.berkshire52 @vnnvshen @juandiegounda @lexalltheway @bea_meskita @georg.tremmel @parg_art

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O TSE — Tríade Sináptica dos Estimulantes constitui uma plataforma conceptual de investigação dedicada ao estudo dos mecanismos neurobiológicos associados às substâncias estimulantes, propondo uma arquitetura farmacológica orientada para três domínios científicos complementares: Dopamodulina, centrada na investigação da homeostase dos sistemas dopaminérgicos e da adaptação neuroquímica; Neuroestabilina, dirigida ao estudo da proteção da integridade neuronal, da estabilidade vascular e dos processos neuroinflamatórios; e Recuperalina, orientada para a compreensão dos mecanismos de neuroplasticidade, recuperação funcional e reorganização cognitiva após a exposição a estimulantes. Em conjunto, estas três linhas estruturam uma taxonomia científica destinada a organizar futuras estratégias de investigação em neurofarmacologia, medicina translacional e biologia molecular dos sistemas de recompensa.

Inspirado na arquitetura conceptual do TET, o TSE não constitui uma proposta de validação clínica nem pressupõe eficácia terapêutica demonstrada, mas estabelece um enquadramento metodológico para futuras investigações sobre preservação, estabilização e recuperação da função neurológica associada à exposição a estimulantes. A sua principal contribuição reside na criação de uma linguagem científica integrada que aproxima farmacologia, neurociência, medicina preventiva e políticas públicas, oferecendo uma estrutura conceptual capaz de orientar programas multidisciplinares de investigação. Enquanto plataforma teórica, o TSE procura organizar novas hipóteses de trabalho para um domínio ainda incompletamente compreendido, contribuindo para a evolução do conhecimento sobre os mecanismos biológicos dos estimulantes e para o desenvolvimento de futuras abordagens farmacológicas baseadas em evidência científica.

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[ Global SynBio Workshop with Dr David Kong from MIT Media Lab ]

We are delighted to welcome Dr David Kong, Director of Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, for a special SynBio Workshop at Goodenough College.

https://www.media.mit.edu/people/dkong/overview/

Dr Kong is an internationally recognised leader in synthetic biology, community biotechnology, and science innovation. He has played a key role in developing the global biohacking and synthetic biology movement through his work at MIT Media Lab, helping to make biotechnology more accessible, collaborative, and impactful.

📅 Date: Friday, 12 June 2026
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (UK Time)
📍 In-person Venue: Churchill Room, Goodenough College London House
https://maps.app.goo.gl/v8KjcA87dJBjwbfh9?g_st=ic

Online: https://mit.zoom.us/j/2305192930

This workshop will provide an exciting introduction to the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology, exploring how biology, engineering, and technology are converging to address some of the world’s biggest challenges in healthcare, sustainability, and innovation.

Whether you are interested in science, medicine, engineering, entrepreneurship, or simply curious about the future of biotechnology, this session promises to be both inspiring and thought-provoking.

Everyone is warmly welcome to attend.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Congratulations to all of the amazing HTGAA 2026 students for an epic set of final presentations! 🎉🧬🚀 We are so proud of our students from @mit, @harvard, @wellesleycollege, and all of our global students for sharing their fantastic and visionary work. 🌍✨

Our students presented for more than 16 hours (😱🤯) over two days, sharing visions at the frontiers of synthetic biology, from self-healing biomaterials and novel biosensors to computationally designed enzymes and therapeutics, to design projects exploring the future of space biotech and ice cream (😳🍨).

HTGAA would not be possible without its heartbeat, our phenomenal team of 120+ Teaching Assistants from around the world who have worked so hard all semester (and all year!) to support our students. ❤️ Similarly, deep gratitude to all of the node leaders at our fifteen global nodes—we couldn’t be more grateful for your leadership! 🌎 @lifefabs @designercells @chitownbio @genspacenyc @bugsslab @hartnell_k12steam @bioclubtokyo

To our world-class faculty: thank you for sharing your cutting-edge research and showing our students that anything is possible! 🔬✨

We extend deep appreciation for our HTGAA Industry Council. Without your generous support and gifts, HTGAA simply would not be possible. To our long-standing partners, @twist_bioscience, @ginkgobioworks, @waterscorp, @nuclera, @opentronslabworks, thank you for your continued, sustained partnership and support. 🙏

Stay tuned—we will be sharing student projects and stories in the weeks to come, and will be announcing a new course this fall (!!). 👀🔥 Join us!

Here’s to growing (almost) anything, (almost) anywhere! 🌱🌍

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WE DID IT!!! Congratulations to all of the amazing @mit, @harvard, and @wellesleycollege students for successfully completing the @mitmedialab synthetic biology course @howtogrowalmostanything! 🧬

It was an intense but rewarding semester exploring the frontiers of synthetic biology, from reading, writing, and editing DNA, to using the latest AI models to design proteins, assembling genetic circuits with liquid handling robots, and prototyping projects with large-scale cloud laboratories. It was an epic semester!

The course culminated with final presentations from our in-person @mit, @harvard, and @wellesleycollege students, and also more than 13 hours of presentations from our global students 😱😳🤯!!!

Follow @howtogrowalmostanything to learn more about our students, their projects, and the larger HTGAA learning community!

#syntheticbiology #synbio #biodesign #howtogrowalmostanything #htgaa

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OCCULT SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY! Just finished presenting my project “SALEM: Synthetic Animated Luminescent Engineered Microbes” to @howtogrowalmostanything as part of @bugsslab Node and @communitybiotech ! Thanks, everyone! 🙌🌀🧬🔥💯

1st slide/video is my seven Petri dish large-format animated agar art system for occult symbols based on engineered fluorescent protein fusion and quotes from my ancestors executed at the Salem Witch Trials, secretly coded into amino acids and reverse transcribed into DNA. 🔮🌀🧬✨

This was a magical time!!!

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Throwback to the BioFab Fair 6 months ago

Our Co-Founder @digby.usher joined Dr. David Sun Kong @davidsunkong Head of Community Biotechnology @communitybiotech , Casey Lardner @genspacenyc , and Paul Rubery @biodesigned spoke about widening participation to biofabrication, biodesign and synthetic biology through community labs, courses and open science.

#ThrowbackThursday #CommunityLab #Biofabrication #Biodesign #OpenScience

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