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"The Vibrimage project aims to create a device that enables the use of sound as a programmable parameter for regulating bacterial growth.”

E. coli bacteria are applied onto a solid agar medium using a bioprinter, turning a digital pattern into a living image. Sound acts as an image editor: a physical filter that transforms this biological canvas. For sound stimulation, frequencies of 500 Hz (amplitude 1-10 um) and 1000 Hz (amplitude 0.25-5 um) were selected.

HTGAA 2026 final project @heymashu @howtogrowalmostanything
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I'm really excited to be taking part in @howtogrowalmostanything course from @mit. It has been an extraordinary journey into the fascinating and intense world of synthetic biology, and i'm enjoying every bit of it!

Learning how to design DNA and genetic circuits to develop biological products feels like a dream coming true. It's challenging, but that's also what makes it so exciting (And i couldn't be happier about it!) 🧬💻

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Our How to Biomanufacture Almost Anything (HTBAA) cohort officially kicked off in the BUGSS lab! 🥼🧪🧫

Our hands-on Sunday lab sessions are underway. BUGSS is a hybrid node for this @howtogrowalmostanything, @mitmedialab, and @harvard course, bringing synthetic biology, bioengineering, and biotechnology concepts to our community lab bench in Baltimore.

Shoutout to our instructors, high schoolers, college students, and lifelong learners joining us for this season of community science!

#BUGSS #HTBAA #Biomanufacturing #SyntheticBiology #MIT #Harvard #Bioengineering #Lab #CharmCity #BaltimoreSTEM #BmoreTech #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #LabSkills #HandsonScience #Biotech #FutureScientists #OpenScience #BUGSSlab #STEM #Science #Baltimore #Bmore #Tech

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BUGSS hosted @buildingsteps interns in the lab this summer!

Building STEPS is a Baltimore-based non-profit that partners with us to connect local high school students with hands-on STEM education, college prep, and real-world laboratory experience. Check out the students’ agar art creations and hear about their experiences.

🦠 “The experience was very different from what I was expecting because I have only chemistry and physical class, and it was completely different from them class. So it shot out the roof from what I was expecting and became a great learning experience.”
🦠 “Having basic lab experience will be very helpful in my future career endeavors. Having microbiology experience will also be helpful if I ever need to take a class on micro biology. I will already know some of the basics.”
🦠 “My favorite part was the agar art and strawberry extraction. I found them both very creative and interesting.”

Missed out? BUGSS will be a @howtogrowalmostanything node, offering in-person lab experiences on Sunday afternoons this fall. This is a great opportunity for high school or college students looking for an internship opportunity!

✅ Apply (link in bio)!

#BUGSS #BuildingSTEPS #AgarArt #Microbiology #BaltimoreSTEM #HighSchoolSTEM #HandsOnScience #STEMInternship #BaltimoreKids #CharmCity #BmoreTech #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #FutureScientists #LabSkills #HTGAA #Biotech #BioArt #YouthInSTEM #Internship #STEM #Science

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BUGSS hosted @buildingsteps interns in the lab this summer!

Building STEPS is a Baltimore-based non-profit that partners with us to connect local high school students with hands-on STEM education, college prep, and real-world laboratory experience. Check out the students’ agar art creations and hear about their experiences.

🦠 “The experience was very different from what I was expecting because I have only chemistry and physical class, and it was completely different from them class. So it shot out the roof from what I was expecting and became a great learning experience.”
🦠 “Having basic lab experience will be very helpful in my future career endeavors. Having microbiology experience will also be helpful if I ever need to take a class on micro biology. I will already know some of the basics.”
🦠 “My favorite part was the agar art and strawberry extraction. I found them both very creative and interesting.”

Missed out? BUGSS will be a @howtogrowalmostanything node, offering in-person lab experiences on Sunday afternoons this fall. This is a great opportunity for high school or college students looking for an internship opportunity!

✅ Apply (link in bio)!

#BUGSS #BuildingSTEPS #AgarArt #Microbiology #BaltimoreSTEM #HighSchoolSTEM #HandsOnScience #STEMInternship #BaltimoreKids #CharmCity #BmoreTech #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #FutureScientists #LabSkills #HTGAA #Biotech #BioArt #YouthInSTEM #Internship #STEM #Science

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ChiTownBio is excited to once again be a node for the popular MIT/Harvard course, this time focused on biomanufacturing! Weekly lectures and recitations will focus on biomanufacturing, from microbial, mammalian, and cell-free systems, to automation technologies, spanning, microfluidics, desktop liquid handling robots, and cloud labs. APPLY TODAY: the deadline is September 11 at 11:59p PT. Visit @howtogrowalmostanything for more info, and click the link in our stories for the application!

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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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I just recently completed the course “How to Grow (Almost) Anything” led by @davidsunkong at MIT. David has really brought a global community together through HTGAA. During the course I was fortunate enough to work with @lifefabs a UK based lab. They were a great lab to work with and were a lot of help with getting my ideas together for my final project. For this course I was working through some ideas on how to create plants that produce brighter autonomous bioluminescence. I am looking forward to further developing this project in the future. The first couple slides show a short presentation I put together for this project for the course. I would highly recommend this course to anyone that is interested in Synthetic Biology. The lectures are taught by some of the leaders in the field and really exposes you to what all can be done. Which helped me realize even more the potential within Synthetic Biology and even got me interested in topics I had never even thought about such as lab automation. I will also include a link in my bio to my course pages that show all of the assignments that were completed and a more in depth version of my final project.

#science #explore #biology #mit #synbio

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Con el corazón lleno 😌✨

Acabo de cerrar uno de los procesos más bonitos que me ha tocado vivir: presenté mi proyecto final en "How to Grow (Almost) Anything" del MIT Media Lab, frente a una comunidad global tan grande que desde Temuco me sentía microscópico 🧬

Y miren cómo es la vida, pues terminé recibiendo dos diplomas, uno a la mejor documentación y otro al esfuerzo y la resiliencia ndkds. Pero más allá del reconocimiento, lo que me llevo es haber pasado de no tan sólo recibir conocimiento sino que también a atreverme a proponer algo nuevo. Fueron meses diseñando, equivocándome, y aprendiendo a sostener ideas, que al principio me parecían gigantes.

Mi proyecto se llama "Füzi Poiesis" y nace de algo que me fascina; y es la capacidad de un sistema de regenerarse por sí mismo, según el biológo chileno Humberto Maturana lo que define a lo vivo. Algo que llamó en sus trabajos académicos como "Autopoesis". Por lo que continuando con esa filosofía, propongo un diseño in silico de un consorcio de tres bacterias, pensado en remediar el Lago Budi, mediante tres cepas nativas que dependan entre sí para sobrevivir, pudiendo demostrar su estabilidad a lo largo del tiempo de forma matemática.

El Lago Budi no nos pertenece a nosotros; sino que a las comunidades que han habitado allí por generaciones, son ellos quienes deciden. Quisiera poder proponer soluciones que integren las voces de esas comunidades. 🌀

Gracias infinitas a Benjamín Arias y a todo el nodo @htgaa_latinamerica por el aliento y el compañerismo, al equipo de @howtogrowalmostanything por esta oportunidad única, y a cada persona que me dejó un mensajito de ánimo en el camino. Esto también es de ustedes 💖🧬✨
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Dedicado a la memoria de Damián Ramírez Vargas... ¿Qué resistencia nos quedará ahora sin el aliento de tus ideales y sueños?
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AMAZING CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS! ✨
So good to see so many SYNBIO GENETICS USFQ node! 🥳🥳🧬💪🏼

#howtogrowalmostanything #htgaaquito

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