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Hi everyone! So far you’ve read a-day-in-my-life content from Serena and Leyla on this newsletter… and now it’s MY TURN. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m the Education and Community Engagement Coordinator at Genspace. I’ve been here for

Maren Fossi is an environmental educator, researcher, lover of fungi, and alum of the Break into Biotech Program. She served as the fungal taxon leader for this year’s Macaulay BioBlitz, is a park steward of Inwood Hill Park, serves as a lecture and workshop organizer and occasional walk leader

Brian Houstle is an architect, an electrician, a carpenter, a general contractor, and a handyman. He’s currently working as a sustainability specialist for New York State and as one of the co-leads of Genspace’s Biomaterial’s Studio. In the lab, he’s using all that expertise and

There are three puddles along the Gowanus Canal that Artist-in-Residence Becca Rodriguez has been visiting for the past five months. They’ve been surveying them, doing water testing, and watching what lives and dies and comes back. They’re working with puddles, pigments, and silks to craft their

30 minutes with Ishna Kapoor, Yehuda Binik, and Eric Schneider, co-leads of the SynBio Software community project. Our SynBio Community Project is building an optogenetics projector and incubator: a  lab bench device designed for light-responsive bacterial experiments. Bacterial photography like this is useful in synthetic biology to visualize

Sally Kong has led or co-led multiple community projects at Genspace: Engineered Matter Labs, How to Grow Almost Anything, Microbial Reef, and now Phyconauts. Across all of them, community research continues to be a muse for her art. Last year it was Sea Cake, shown at the Genspace Biomaterial

Sunny did her first research ever at Biorocket, back in high school. She went on to study biochemistry and molecular biology at Boston University, came back to Genspace as a Biorocket peer mentor, and just wrapped up a research fellowship at the NIH studying HIV mutants and persistence. She'

Reflections and a data-driven deep dive on a decade of the Biorocket Research Internship–Genspace’s flagship youth research training program focused on broadening access to careers in science.  Plus, a sneak peek at a brand new award we'll be announcing this Friday at the Biorocket Friends

A free, hands-on program for New Yorkers ready to start a career in the life sciences. No experience required Applications are open for the next cohort of Break into Biotech If you've ever wondered whether a career in the life sciences was possible for you or someone

This year, Genspace's Biorocket Research Internship Program turns 10 — ten years of bright, curious students who have come through our doors to find out what it means to do science. Since Biorocket's inaugural summer in 2017, 124 students have spent time in our lab learning to

Moving to another state doesn't mean you're no longer part of the Genspace community. We caught up with June Sass, who moved to Maryland to obtain her Master of Health Science in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. She told us about what she's learned, what

Lolo Ostia is an artist and longtime Genspace member. Right now, she’s having a moment: biennials, an inaugural Columbia fellowship, and a first-prize film.  Lolo Ostia has spent the last two years moving from one thing to the next: the Florence Biennale, the Havana Biennial, the New York

FIT-Genspace Scholar Georgia Badonksy Mulligan is obsessed with jellyfish. She spent the past two years turning that obsession into a biomaterials research program at Genspace. Below, she shares an update on her work at the lab. Jellyfish are roughly eight hundred million years old. Spineless, brainless, and bloodless, they

30 minutes with Will Elliot, designer, artist, and founder of Biocrafting.Studio. William Takao Eliot is known, in certain circles, as the mealworm guy. He's fine with that. "There's something about it that's surprising that mealworms are even involved. Something that people might

30 minutes with Jonah Goodman, founder and creator of ECO-SKIN, and winner of the Outstanding Science Prize at last year’s Biodesign Challenge Last year, industrial designer Jonah Goodman competed in the Biodesign Challenge. Representing Parsons School of Design, he took home the Outstanding Science Prize, presented by Genspace.