WHAT IS NONA TALKS?

A one-day event to bring together industry and academic parties in the open-source app synthetic biology community. “Nona Talks” is focused on community building, idea generation, and education.

Nona Talks Fall 2022

PRELIMINARY EXAMPLE AGENDA
  • 10:00-11:00 – Coffee / snacks, informal area set up to meet/greet each other
  • 11:00-11:30 – Greeting and Presentation by Doug Densmore and George Johnson
  • 11:30-12:15 – Late Morning Session: What is the role of Open Source in Synthetic Biology Software
  • 12:15-1:15 – Lunch
  • 1:15-3:15 – Technical Briefings – what software tools are being developed/used now in academia and industry
  • 3:15-3:45 – Coffee Break
  • 3:45-5:00 – Discussion – Roadmapping Nona

WHAT IS NONA WORKS?

A three-day biohackathon event to bring together industry and academic parties in the open-source synthetic biology community. “Nona Works” is focused on community building, idea execution, and education.

Nona Works Winter 2022

PRELIMINARY EXAMPLE FULL AGENDA

Day 1

  • 4:30-5:15 – Registration: Coffee / snacks, informal area set up to meet/greet each other
  • 5:30-6:15 – Introduction/Daily Kickoff: Greeting and Presentation by George Johnson
  • 6:15-7:00 –Ideation phase: Teams form and ideas are formed
  • 7:00-8:00 – Dinner
  • 8:00-9:00 – Closing Remarks/Technical Briefings – what software tools are being developed/used now in academia and industry

Day 2

  • 8:00-9:00 – Daily Kickoff: organizers lay out the agenda for the day. Teams explain their project ideas and share their plans
  • 10:00 – 11:00 – Nona Application Workshop
  • 12:00-1:00 – Lunch break
  • 2:00 – 3:00 – Docker Workshop
  • 5:00 – 6:00 – Closing: At the end of the day teams share their progress and plan for the final day
  • 6:00 – Dinner Break and reconvene in the morning

Day 3

  • 8:00-9:00 – Daily Kickoff: organizers lay out the agenda for the day. Teams explain their project ideas and share their plans
  • 10:00 – 11:00 – Open Source Workshop
  • 12:30-1:30 – Lunch break
  • 1:30 – 3:00 – Presentations
  • 3:30 – 4:00 – Results and Closing

PRELIMINARY EXAMPLE SHORTENED AGENDA:
  1. Run a program in Jupyter notebook (or something similarly simple) – 30 minutes
  2. Modify the program in some way – 30 minutes
  3. Free time to play around and ask questions (needs “TAs”) – 30 minutes
  4. Challenge problem overview – everyone try to do X – 10 minutes
  5. Time to do X – 1 hour
  6. Come back together and see everyone’s solution – 30 minutes

Total time: 3 hours 10 minutes + 20 minutes for breaks – 3.5 hours

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