No, my panel on DIYbio was not chosen.
That’s the “shucks”.
The great news is that Christina Agapakis’ panel “Designing Living Things” did get selected! She’s got a great crowd on her panel: Patrick Boyle, Daisy Ginsberg, Jason Kelly, and Sri Kosuri. A veritable who’s-who in synthetic bio and synthetic aesthetics. It’s a great follow-on to Venter’s talk in 2011. It’s going to be a very interesting panel indeed, and I won’t miss it for anything. And neither should you.
Indeed, Design was one of the ideas I thought would have legs, but I just didn’t have the chops, cred, or connections to have pulled it off, so I am glad that Christina took the leap of faith and set off to organize this panel.
That’s the “yay”.
As for some other interesting science panels:
– Ariel Waldman is running a panel “Get Excited and Make Things with Science” about Science Hack Day. I think this is a better segue from traditional SXSW fodder to science hacking (DIYbio might still be a large leap?).
– Christopher Mims and Michael Coren are running a duo-talk about “OpenScience: Hacking the Scientific Method”
Check out the other sessions in this post on SXSW.com.
