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Hacking Your Genes Has Never Been Easier – Outside Magazine

Josiah Zayner and I are drinking fluorescent green beer at the ODIN, his Oakland lab. The tables are scattered with pipettes and disposable blue gloves, cases of Red Bull and Slim Jims are near at hand, and Drake is pulsing on the sound system. Its not St. Patricks Day, and the beer isnt really all that green. Its the ghostly luminescence of jellyfish pulsing through the depths. Thats because its chock full of glowing jellyfish protein.

But no jellyfish were harmed in the making of this beer. Zayner is the worlds most notorious biohackera new breed of garage tinkerer experimenting with DNA and biological systems outside the confines of traditional research. In this case, he genetically engineered a common brewers yeast by adding a jellyfishs green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene that he ordered online. As long as you know the DNA sequence of the gene you wantthe As, Cs, Gs, and Ts of the genetic codeyou no longer need the actual critter the gene came from. You just run off the code on a special DNA printer containing cartridges filled with liquid As, Cs, Gs, and Ts. Then you insert the new DNA into whichever organism you want to modify. The process is shockingly easy.

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I raise my glass and pause. Zayners yeast suffuses the beer with a gauzy haze. I have no idea which species of jellyfish the GFP gene came from, but my hunch is that it has never been a regular part of the human diet. Zayner assures me its safe. Genetic engineers love GFP because its such an easy visual. They include it with whichever other gene theyre trying to insert, and if their organism glows, they know the experiment worked without having to send off a sample for DNA sequencing. Scientists have engineered glowing cats and mice using GFP, he points out, and the creatures lived just fine.

I eye Zayner. He has drunk a fair amount of GFP beer himself, and while I wouldnt say he looks normalhe sports dozens of piercings, plugs in both earlobes, and a spike of bleached hair that is sometimes blue and sometimes whitehe seems healthy enough.

Dude, he assures me, we did all the normal FDA tests. Its nontoxic, nonallergenic. As further proof, he shows me his left forearm. Right next to the tattoo that says CREATE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL is a row of four tiny wounds. I modified myself with it. Its fine.

Agar plates and vials of microbes at the ODIN lab. (Justin Kaneps)

Zayner claims he was the first to genetically modify himself with another speciess DNA. For what he would call a science experiment and I would call conceptual art, he removed dead skin cells from his forearm (just rub the same spot with a toothbrush 200 times) and used a tattoo needle to punch jellyfish DNA into his skin. The DNA was attached to a common virus that specializes in infiltrating human cells and parking itself there. Those skin cells then began manufacturing the GFP along with all their regular proteinsthough, to Zayners disappointment, not enough to see the glow with the naked eye. He also performed a DIY fecal transplant on himself, which was chronicled in the recent documentary Gut Hack, curing himself of years of irritable bowel syndrome.

Im not sure what I think about any of this, starting with my beer. I tend to favor pilsner over jellybrew, but Im trying to maintain my chill biohacker persona, so I chug. Weve spiked it with enough blood orange juice to cover any weirdness, and frankly it goes down pretty easy. Just like that, this crunchy Vermonter who always shunned GMOs filled his belly with them, and starts looking forward to the week ahead.

Id always thought of genetic engineering as something done in million-dollar labs by corporate powerhouses like Monsanto. Extracting the DNA from life forms and inserting it into other life forms seemed like the kind of thing that required high-tech machines and years of trial and error. And it used to. But that was before Crispr, Science magazines 2015 Breakthrough of the Year, an engineered protein that can snip out sequences of DNA wherever you want. Its like a search and replace function for genes. It works on bacterial cells, it works on mouse cells, and it works on human cells. Its been used to engineer immune cells that kill cancer, viruses that kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria, female mosquitoes that cant reproduce (to crash the population), and a yeast infused with genetic code from poppies and rats that makes opioids out of sugar in a tank. But the crazy thing about Crispr is that its so easy to use and cheap to make that it also allows any budding hacker with some basic biology and a mischievous mind to play God in their garage.

The only thing missing is someone to share this knowledge with the multitudes, and thats where Zayner comes in. He started out traditionally enough: wunderkind Ph. D. candidate at the University of Chicago and then research fellow at NASA, where he adapted organisms for life on Mars. But then, in 2015, he veered off to become the pierced Prometheus of genetic engineering, bringing it down to us mortals from the labs of academia. In this field, there are a bunch of people with a lot of knowledge and a bunch of people with a lot of crazy, he says with a smile, but there are very few with a lot of knowledge and a lot of crazy.

Not for the first time, I smile back at Zayner and try to gauge the crazy. For now Im coming down on the side of like a fox. Hes made a huge success of the ODINshort for Open Discovery Institute and inspired by the Norse godthe combination lab and mail-order business he founded in 2013 to make DIY bio accessible to everyone. The ODIN sells pre-engineered GFP yeast ($80) online, along with DIY Crispr kits ($150), fluorescent-yeast-engineering kits ($160), something called the Amino DNA Playground ($349), and a complete Genetic Engineering Home Lab Kit ($999) stocked with pipettes, tubes, scales, antibiotics, agar, light-activated bacteria, bioluminescent bacteria, Crispr, and a PCR machine, which makes copies of DNA through polymerase chain reaction. The ODINs clients include community colleges, high school kids, and mysterious individuals.

Jars of Crispr. (Justin Kaneps)

All ODIN kits are designed to engineer bacteria or yeast, the cheapest and simplest critters to work with, and they focus on obvious visuals like GFP. They are the Easy-Bake Ovens of genetic engineering. They offer quick success to rank amateurs like me and a tantalizing taste of the endless possibilities. Where we take it from there is up to us.

Zayner and his fellow biohackers are big on genetic freedom. Everything your body makes or does is encoded by a gene. And the more we learn about the genetic basis of human processesfrom disease and life expectancy to athletic and mental performancethe closer we get to being able to reprogram our bodies. I think we could do substantial changes to ourselves right now, Zayner says. You could go a little more crazy than scientists have been willing to let on.

For years there have been rumors that people already are. Gene doping, as its called, could theoretically give anybody the ability to burn oxygen like a Tibetan mountaineer, to build muscle like LeBron James, and to never get heart disease. Its all in the genes. Its in the hard work and good habits, too, but without certain tools you can only go so far. And in either the shady present or the not so distant future, well all have access to those tools, which Zayner finds pretty exciting. This is the first time in human history that were no longer stuck with the genes we had at birth. It fucking blows your mind.

He sees no reason to let corporations and ivory-tower institutions have all the fun. Hence the Easy-Bake Ovens. Give a man a cookie and he eats for a day. Teach a man to cook and youve stolen fire from the gods.

Josiah Zayner. The name screams Marvel Comics. The backstory, too: Country childhood on an Indiana farm. Pentecostal parents. (His brothers are Micah, Zachariah, and Jedediah; the dog was named Jeremiah.) Missionary in Peru. Teenage member of the late-nineties hacker collective Legions of the Underground. Biophysics Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Synthetic-biology fellowship at NASAs Ames Research Center. Then something goes horribly wrong.

In Zayners case, there was no lab explosion. No rampaging through the streets of Mountain View, paralyzing Google employees with jellyfish tentacles sprouting from his back. No, what went wrong is that Zayner discovered that NASA was deadly dull. Empty offices. Stultifying bureaucracy. A supervisor who actually told him to spend less time in the lab. Not the place for someone who wanted to change the universe. So he did what any budding superhero would do: he went rogue.

Crispr and pipettes. (Justin Kaneps)

As his two-year NASA fellowship neared its end in 2015, Zayner launched an Indiegogo campaign offering contributors their own DIY gene-editing kit. Hed learned just enough while getting his Ph.D. to realize that genetic engineering was way more accessible than most people knew, and he couldnt wait to liberate it from the elite labs he loathed and bring it to the people, because, as he told me, I was always that poor-as-dirt kid dreaming that he could do some great experiment. The pitch video featured shots of Zayner swigging from a flask at the lab bench (his kitchen counter) while the voiceover asked, If you had access to cutting-edge syntheticbiology tools, what would you create? The campaign raised more than $70,000.

It also freaked out critics. Zayners campaign is worrisome because it does not seem to comply with the DIYbio.org code of conduct, Todd Kuiken, a scholar in the Genetic Engineering and Society Center at North Carolina State University, wrote in Nature in 2016. He was referring to the nonprofit founded in 2008 to foster safe practices in DIY biology. For example, he noted, The video that accompanies his campaign zooms in on petri dishes containing samples that are stored next to food in a refrigerator. Kuiken also believes there needs to be a robust public dialogue about the responsible use of Crispr.

The refrigerator comment still annoys Zayner. So are you saying that being able to do science is a class thing? Only people who can afford second fridges should do science? But he got his act together and bought another fridge, in part because he was already under scrutiny from the FDA, which had threatened to seize his equipment because of his Internet sales. Zayner has also been warned of possible prosecution by officials in Germany, where biohacking is banned. But the practice is perfectly legal throughout the United States, mostly because it has never occurred to legislators to outlaw such a thing, and the ODIN is doing well. Zayner sells thousands of gene-editing kits globally every year, and he expects to gross at least $400,000 in 2017. The world wants this.

The workday at the ODIN starts late-morning. One employee is multi-tasking, packing kits for the days orders while he propagates new batches of microbes. Zayners brother Micah is scarfing Chinese takeout on the couch. The air is redolent with the funk of E. coli bacteria and young male. Zayner solders new wiring onto used PCR machines (There are few things Im one of the worlds leading experts on, but finding functional lab equipment on eBay is one of them, he says) while guiding me through an attempt to engineer antibiotic resistance into E. coli using Crispr. Despite the punk trappings, Zayner is gentle, kind, and a very good teacher.

We rehydrate some dried E. coli in a test tube, pour it into a petri plate containing nutrients, and set it aside overnight. In the morning, we have a flourishing colony of fuzzy white bacteria. We scrape it up, divide it into two plastic tubes of liquid, and to one tube add a few drops of Crispr programmed to change a single A to a C, which will flip the electrical charge of a protein in the bacteria from positive to negative at the point where streptomycin normally attacks it, repelling the antibiotic molecules. Then we pour the two batches onto fresh agar plates laced with streptomycin and incubate everything at 99 degrees for 24 hours.

Genetically modified beer. (Justin Kaneps)

The next day, I pull our agar plates out of the incubator and examine them. Eureka! The normal bacteria is stone-cold dead. But the plate with the modified bacteria is studded with survivor colonies. Weve created GMOs in a day. They and their trillions of descendants will be immune to streptomycin.

Or they would have been if we hadnt killed the whole colony with bleach and thrown it in the trash. As crazy as our creation sounds, it turns out that it was pretty innocuous. This particular version of antibiotic resistance is so simplejust a single changed letter of DNAthat bacteria come up with it on their own all the time. We werent introducing anything the world hadnt seen before, and anyway our weak lab strain was about as dangerous as a cocker spaniel. Yet I cant help but wonder about all the biohackers out there who arent bleaching their experiments. What could the wrong person do with this knowledge?

Thats what I asked Ed You, the biological-countermeasures specialist at the FBIs Weapons of Mass Destruction directorate. You is the governments point person on bioweapons; its his job to worry about this stuff, but he had bigger things on his mind than the ODIN. The most dangerous bioterrorist out there is Mother Nature, he told me over the phone. Were getting hit with emerging and reemerging infectious diseases all the time. Bird flu, MERS, SARS, Zika, West Nile. If you think about a clear and present danger, its that. So we absolutely need the innovation that comes from the life sciences, from DIY bio, to make sure we develop the right counters.

Wait a minute, I said. You actually want them out there tinkering? Yes, he replied. Biology is proliferating quickly, but how do we address security in a way that doesnt handicap forward progress? If you shut down DIY bio, then you run a completely different national-security problem. If you stifle innovation, then youre going to be missing out on opportunities to come up with new vaccines, new biodefense, new countermeasures, new businesses. And if that happens, then youve developed a whole different kind of vulnerability.

You pointed out that the field was moving so fast that agents could never keep up with the pace of the advances. Instead, hes cultivated a neighborhood-watch mentality among the countrys scientists and biohackers. Theyre best positioned to see where the advances are coming from, he said. If someone like Josiah gets a suspicious order of some kind, he knows that hes got a local coordinator in the San Francisco field office he can contact.

Agar plates. (Justin Kaneps)

It all sounded strangely progressive for a bunch of G-men, but every expert I consulted told me that they had no concerns about Zayner. Forget the garagistas, they told me; worry about the academics. Many labs now have the technology and know-how to make some fearsome beasties. Last year, a scientist in Canada shocked the world when he managed to bring to life horsepox, a smallpox cousin that went extinct in the 1980s, by synthesizing its DNA from a sequence stored in a computer database. Are we entering a new era of bioterror?

Probably not, Zayner told me. Lets imagine youre the worst person in the world and you want to hurt people with biologicals. First you have to have the knowledge. Then you have to have the facility. Then you have to think about how its going to spread. It would be an astounding feat. Could you kill one or two people? Sure. But you can do that with a fucking kitchen knife.

That night, Zayner and I celebrate our successful biohack over pig-ear fries and sake at a Korean joint before heading over to Counter Culture Labs, a communal biohacker space where he occasionally teaches. Amid the lab benches and anarchist posters are shelves of strange plants under grow lights and a pig heart in a vat. One woman is attempting to create vegan cheese by inserting cow milk-producing genes into yeast, while another man is quietly sequencing the DNA of the mushrooms he collects in Mexico each summer. A small team are hard at work designing an organism that can produce human insulin. In keeping with the hacker ethos, they will gift it to the world open-source.

There are dozens of biohacker enclaves like this around the globe, such as Genspace in Brooklyn, New York, where hipsters can take Crispr classes and attend Biohacker Boot Camp. The U.S. has been the hub, but now Europe is coming on strong. DIYbio.org has nearly 5,000 members in its Google Group and boasts 99 local chapters, from Madison to Mumbai. Most biohackers never get beyond simple experiments with microbes, but a few have taken it further. David Ishee, a dog breeder in Mississippi, is editing heritable diseases out of his dalmatians. Sebastian Cocioba, a plant hacker in New York, engineered a pioneering blue rose gene, using a DNA sequence from a tropical clam that produces an intensely blue protein, as well as a beefsteak tomato that produces cow protein in its flesh. Cocioba, who operates out of his 12th-floor apartment in Long Island City, is so skilled that he has been asked by MIT to spearhead a top-secret flower project, the details of which cant be shared except to say that in a few years it will capture the worlds attention.

And what about people? I ask. How long before cyclists start giving themselves the EPO gene to produce more red blood cells, or lifters start playing around with the gene for human growth factor?

Zayner laughs. Dude, either people are already doing that shit, or its going to start immediately. Id be very surprised if there isnt somebody out there doing it already. Its so hard to test for. What are you going to do, look for DNA? If a professional athlete came to me right now and said, Ill give you $100,000 to make me a piece of DNA, Id be like, Hell yeah.

Zayner believes we should all have access to DIY bio. (Justin Kaneps)

Surprisingly, this is perfectly legal, though its long been banned by sporting organizations. Athletes and life-extension buffs have been sniffing around gene-therapy clinics for years, ever since pioneering physiologist Lee Sweeney, from the University of Pennsylvania, showed that mice injected with the gene IGF-1, or insulin-like growth factor, significantly increased their muscle mass. Sweeney has also shown that mice injected with endurance genes were able to run 70 percent farther on the wheel than their unmodified peers, and that couch-potato mice ran 44 percent farther.

Just this June, a team of U.S. and Israeli scientists announced the discovery of a rare genetic mutation linked to ten years of extra longevity in men. And in 2015, Liz Parrish, the CEO of the startup BioViva, announced that she was the first person to attempt to reverse her own aging with gene therapy. I am patient zero, she wrote on Reddit. I will be 45 in January. I have aging as a disease. Parrish traveled to a clinic in Colombia (the therapy isnt approved in the U.S.) and received injections of one gene to extend the lifespan of her individual cells and another to block myostatin, the hormone that regulates muscle deterioration.

Myostatin is the holy grail of potential dopers who believe they can both arrest the natural deterioration of muscle and build more in their youth. Muscle is metabolically expensive to maintain, so myostatins job is to stop new muscle from being made once youve got enough and to atrophy muscle you arent using. You can find images online of dogs, cows, and people with a rare mutation that shuts down the myostatin gene and turns them into Incredible Hulks. Scientists in China recently used Crispr to turn off the myostatin gene in two beagles. The dogs look healthy, happyand ripped.

But Im less interested in what athletes are doing than in something Zayner said to me on my first day in the lab: This is the first time in history that were no longer stuck with the genes we had at birth. If Zayner has his way, well all be sculpting our own evolution.

Lets be clear: dont try this at home! Although hundreds of gene-therapy trials are under way, and many experts believe they will eventually transform almost every aspect of human health, few have been proven safe. When you start scrambling your DNA, very bad things can happen. You can get cancer. Your immune system can attack the unfamiliar DNA, as happened when an 18-year-old with a rare metabolic disorder died during a University of Pennsylvania gene-therapy trial in 1999.

But sick people wont wait for years of trials, Zayner says. He hears regularly from people willing to roll the dice. Hes been consulting pro bono for a man using Crispr to treat his own Huntingtons disease and another who is treating his 32-year-old wifes advanced lung carcinoma with genetically engineered DNA vaccines. A lot of people contact me with stuff like thatIm suffering. Can you help?

Zayner sticks to the free advice, helping people figure out the sequence of the DNA they need without supplying anything himself, but he knows where this is headed. The only thing holding people back is morality. I have no doubt there are places in Singapore or Thailand or the Philippines doing it. They could totally create individualized cancer treatments right now. Clinics will pop up. Youll go to shops in the back alleys of Bangkok and hand $10,000 to a synthetic biologist and hell take a blood sample and make you up a vaccine in a couple of days.

Im flashing back to Blade Runners replicant shopsI just do eyeswhen Zayner gets a funny smile and cocks his head. Want to try something kind of creepy Ive been thinking about?

For our final piece of conceptual art, Zayner and I swab the crevices of our skin and inside our mouths with Q-tips and swirl the gunk into tubes of distilled water. We spread the contents over agar plates and incubate them overnight.

The next morning, Josiahthing is nearly barren, but Rowanthing is crawling with cells. Look at those big fat yeasties! Zayner mutters with envy. All I can think is, if this works, it will give new meaning to the term homebrew.

We scrape up some Josiahthing and Rowanthing and put each in its own microcentrifuge tube with some chemicals that soften up cell walls so new DNA can get inside. We pipette ten microliters of the jellyfish DNA into each tube, shake them up, let them sit for a few hours, then pour them across new agar plates and cross our fingers. If this actually works, I might make it a kit, Zayner muses.

By then I have to catch a flight home, so I tape up my petri plate and pack it, along with yellow-tint glasses and a blue LED, which makes the fluorescence easier to see. TSA doesnt bat an eye.

The next day I get an e-mail from Zayner: Any growth on that plate?

Yep! Four or five nice, puffy little white colonies.

Put on the glasses and shine blue light on them. Do they glow?

I don the glasses and hit the plate with the blue LED. There are a dozen tiny colonies that stay dull under the light, but there are also five large conical colonies fluorescing like the Green Goblin. Totally! I write back, and send a photo.

Amazing! So cool! So jealous. Mine didnt work.

I feel as proud as Victor Frankenstein. Ive created life from my own spit. In the following weeks, Rowanthing develops an apex so green you dont even need the glasses to see it. Whatever it is, its new to this planet, and its burbling away in my basement, waiting to meet the world.

Contributing editor Rowan Jacobsen (@rowanjacobsen) is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Justin Kaneps(@Justkaneps) is anOutsidecontributing photographer.

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Track 9: Bioinformatics in Genomics

Bioinformatics is the exploration of gathering and breaking down complex organic information, for example, hereditary codes. Sub-atomic solution requires the joining and examination of genomic, sub-atomic, cell, and additionally clinical information and it in this way offers a momentous arrangement of difficulties to bioinformatics.

Related Conferences: 5th International Conference onComputational Systems BiologyAugust 22-23, 2016 Philadelphia, USA; 6th International Conference onBioinformaticsMarch 29-30, 2016 Valencia, Spain; 7th International Conference onBioinformaticsOctober 27-28, 2016 Chicago, USA; 2nd International Conference onTranscriptomicsAugust 18-20, 2016 Portland, Oregon USA; International Conference onNext Generation SequencingJuly 21-22, 2016 Berlin, Germany; The Fourteenth Asia PacificBioinformaticsConference, 11th-13 January 2016, San Francisco, USA; 18th International Conference on Bioinformatics andBiotechnology, 19 20 May 2016, Berlin, Germany; IEEE conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics &Computational Biology, October 5-7, 2016, Chiang Mai, Thailand; 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods andAlgorithms, 21- 23 Feb, 2016, Rome, Italy;Bio banking2016, 57 January 2016, London, United Kingdom

Track 10: Comparative Genomics

Similar Genomics new field of natural examination in which the genome groupings of various species - human, mouse and a wide assortment of different life forms from yeast to chimpanzees-are looked at. The assessment of likenesses and contrasts between genomes of various life forms; can uncover contrasts in the middle of people and species and also transformative connections.

Related Conferences: World Congress onHuman GeneticsOctober 31- November 02, 2016 Valencia, Spain; 4th International Conference onIntegrative Biology, July 18-20, 2016, Berlin, Germany; International Conference onMolecular Biology, October 13-15, 2016 Dubai, UAE; International Conference onGenetic Counseling and Genomic MedicineAugust 11-12, 2016 Birmingham; 5th International Conference and Exhibition onCell and Gene TherapyMay 19-21, 2016 San Antonio, USA; 20th Annual International Conference on Research in ComputationalMolecular Biology, April 17-21, 2016, Santa Monica, USA; 8th International Conference onBioinformatics and Computational Biology, April 4-6, 2016, Nevada, USA; Visualizingbiological data, 911 March 2016, Heidelberg, Germany; Chromatin andEpigenetics, March 20-24, 2016, British Columbia, Canada; Game ofEpigenomics, April 24-28, 2016 in Dubrovnik

Track 11: Plant Genomics

Late mechanical headways have generously extended our capacity to dissect and comprehend plant genomes and to diminish the crevice existing in the middle of genotype and phenotype. The quick advancing field of genomics permits researchers to dissect a huge number of qualities in parallel, to comprehend the hereditary building design of plant genomes furthermore to separate the qualities in charge of transformations.

Related Conferences: International Conference onPlant PhysiologyJune 09-11, 2016 Dallas, USA ; Global Summit onPlant ScienceNovember 28-30, 2016 Baltimore, USA; 5th International Conference onAgriculture & HorticultureJune 27-29, 2016 Cape Town, South Africa ; 6th International Conference onGenomics & PharmacogenomicsSeptember 22-24, 2016 Berlin, Germany; International Conference onGreen Energy& Expo November 28-30, 2016 Baltimore, USA; Plant Genomes andBiotechnology: from genes to networks Dec ember 02-05, 2015 Berlin, Germany; Plant Genome Evolution 2015 September, 6 - 8 2015 Amsterdam, The Netherlands; The 3rdPlant GenomicsCongress September 14-15,2015 Missouri, USA; ProkaGENOMICS European Conference on Prokaryotic andFungal Genomics29 September-2 October 2015 Gttingen, Germany; International Meeting onBioinformaticsand OMICs October 27- 30,2015 Varadero, Cuba; The 2ndPlant GenomicsCongress: September 14-15, 2015 MO, USA; GET Global Conference September 17-19, 2015 Vienna, Austria

Track 12: Personal Genomics

Individual genomics is the branch of genomics worried with the sequencing and examination of the genome of a person. The genotyping stage utilizes diverse strategies, including single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) examination chips or incomplete or full genome sequencing.

Related Conferences: 4th International Conference onIntegrative Biology, July 18-20, 2016, Berlin, Germany; 2nd International Conference onTranscriptomicsAugust 18-20, 2016 Portland, Oregon USA; International Conference onNext Generation SequencingJuly 21-22, 2016 Berlin, Germany; World Congress onHuman GeneticsOctober 31- November 02, 2016 Valencia, Spain; 18th International Conference onHuman Genetics, February 25 - 26, 2016, London, United Kingdom; Visualizing biological data, 911 March 2016, Heidelberg, Germany; 1st Annual International Congress of Genetics, April 25-28, Dalian, China; Chromatin andEpigenetics, March 20-24, 2016, British Columbia, Canada; Game ofEpigenomics, April 24-28, 2016 in Dubrovnik

Track 13: Microbial Genomics

Microbial Genomics applies recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing routines, and bioinformatics to succession, gather, and dissect the capacity and structure of genomes in organisms. Amid the previous 10 years, genomics-based methodologies have profoundly affected the field of microbiology and our comprehension of microbial species. In view of their bigger genome sizes, genome sequencing endeavors on growths and unicellular eukaryotes were slower to begin than ventures concentrated on prokaryotes.

Related Conferences: International Conference onMolecular BiologyOctober 13-15, 2016 Dubai, UAE; 4th International Conference onIntegrative BiologyJuly 18-20, 2016 Berlin, Germany; International Conference onMicrobial Physiology and GenomicsOctober 20-22, 2016 Rome, Italy; 4th International Conference onClinical Microbiology and Microbial GenomicsOctober 05-07, 2015 Philadelphia, USA; 2nd World Congress and Expo onApplied MicrobiologyOctober 31-November 02, 2016 Istanbul, Turkey; 18th International Conference onClinical Microbiologyand Microbial Genomics, June 9 - 10, 2016, San Francisco, USA; 18th International Conference onDNAand Microbial Genome Resources, February 11 - 12, 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 18th International Conference onMicrobial GenomeResources and Clinical Microbiology, January 12 - 13, 2016, Zurich, Switzerland; 18th International Conference onMolecular Geneticsand Microbiology, February 25 - 26, 2016, London, United Kingdom

Track 14: Future trends in Genomics

Genomics research holds the way to meeting a considerable lot of the difficulties of the coming years. Right now, the greatest test is in information investigation. We can produce a lot of information modestly, yet that overpowers our ability to comprehend it. The significant test of the Genome Research is we have to imbue genomic data into restorative practice, which is truly hard.

Related Conferences: International Conference onClinical and Molecular Genetics, November 28-30, 2016 Chicago, USA; 2nd International Conference onTranscriptomicsAugust 18-20, 2016 Portland, Oregon USA; International Conference onNext Generation SequencingJuly 21-22, 2016 Berlin, Germany; The Fourteenth Asia PacificBioinformaticsConference, 11th-13 January 2016, San Francisco, USA; World Congress onHuman GeneticsOctober 31- November 02, 2016 Valencia, Spain; 18th International Conference onGeneticsand Genomics, June 9 - 10, 2016, San Francisco, USA; NGS 16Genome Annotation, April 4 6, 2016, Barcelona, Spain; Maintenance of Genome Stability 2016, March 7-10, 2016, Panama, Central America;Epigenomics: new marks, new horizons, December 2015, 2 December 2015, UK;Human GenomeMeeting, 28 February 2 March 2016, Houston, USA

Track 15: Genomic Medicine Genomic Medicine as "a developing restorative train that includes utilizing genomic data around a person as a major aspect of their clinical consideration (e.g., for demonstrative or remedial choice making) and the wellbeing results and strategy ramifications of that clinical use." Already, genomic medication is having an effect in the fields of oncology, pharmacology, uncommon and undiscovered maladies, and irresistible illness.

Track 15: Genomics Market

Genomics is the study of the genetic material or genomes of an organism. Analysts forecast the Global Genomics market will grow at a CAGR of 11.21% over the period 2013-2018. According to the report, the most important driver of the market is an increase in the demand for consumables. The growing adoption of genetic testing for various applications, especially in regions such as the APAC, and an increase in genetic testing volumes in North America and Western Europe is increasing the demand for consumables.

OMICS International hosted3rd International Conference on Genomics & Pharmacogenomics during September 21-23, 2015 at San Antonio, USA based on the theme Implications & Impacts of Genomic Advances on Global Health.

Active participation and generous response was received from the Organizing Committee Members, scientists, researchers, as well as experts from Non-government organizations, and students from diverse groups who made this conference as one of the most successful and productive events in 2015 from OMICS Group.

The conference was marked with several workshops, multiple sessions, Keynote presentations, panel discussions and Poster sessions. We received active participation from scientists, young and brilliant researchers, business delegates and talented student communities representing more than 35 countries, who have driven this event into the path of success.

The conference was initiated with a warm welcome note by Honorable guests and the Keynote forum.The proceedings went through interactive sessions and panel discussions headed byhonorable Moderator Dr. Aditi Nadkarni, New York University, USA for the conference.

The conference proceedings were carried out through various Scientific-sessions and plenary lectures, of which the following Speakers were highlighted as Keynote speakers:

Utilizing cancer sequencing in the clinic - Best practices in variant analysis, filtering and annotation: Andreas Scherer, Golden Helix Inc., USA

The role of genomics in gene therapy and diagnostic testing and related intellectual property issues: Krishna Dronamraju, Foundation for Genetic Research, USA

Epigenesis, methylation, and single strand breaks: Rosemarie Wahl, St. Mary's University, USA

The application of validation and proficiency testing concepts from current clinical genetic diagnostics for the implementation of new genetic technologies: Kathleen S Wilson, U.T Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Biomimetic membranes: Mariusz Grzelakowski, Applied Biomimetic Inc., USA

The Genomics-2015 also being highlighted for the below International workshop:

Understanding the effects of steroid hormone exposure on regulation of P53 and Bcl-2 gene expression

OMICS Group has taken the privilege of felicitating Genomics-2015 Organizing Committee, Keynote Speakers who supported for the success of this event. OMICS Group, on behalf of the Organizing Committee congratulates the Best Poster awardees for their outstanding performance in the field of Genomics & Pharmacogenomics and appreciates all the participants who put their efforts in poster presentations and sincerely wishes them success in future endeavors.

Poster Judging was done by: Dr. Hao Mei, University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA Best Poster Award was received by: Mr. Juan Carlos Alberto Padilla, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico

Genomics-2015 attracted the Society for General Microbiology, UK and they came forward to advert their leading journals on the back side cover of conference proceedings book.

Genomics-2015 was sponsored by one of the leading bioinformatics solution center BGI Americas, USA

Genomics-2015 necessarily thanks Aeon Clinical Laboratories, USA for exhibiting recent innovations and express ways in clinical testing.

We are also obliged to various delegate experts, company representatives and other eminent personalities who supported the conference by facilitating active discussion forums. We sincerely thank theOrganizing Committee Membersfor their gracious presence, support, and assistance towards the success of Genomics-2015.

With the unique feedback from the conference,OMICS Groupwould like to announce the commencement of the "6th International Conference on Genomics & Pharmacogenomics, during September 12-14, 2016 at Berlin, Germany.

For More details visit: http://genomics.conferenceseries.com/

Genomics-2014

The conference brought together a broad spectrum of the Genomics community, educators from research universities with their programs and state colleges from across the world, as well as representatives from industry and professional geosciences societies.

This 2ndInternational Conference on Genomics and Pharmacogenomics was based on the theme Envisioning the Genomic Advances in Global Health which covered the below scientific sessions:

Functional genomics

The conference was greeted by the conference moderator Junio Cota, VTT Brasil, Brazil.The support was extended by the honorable guest Krishna Dronamraju, Foundation for Genetic Research, USA; Anton A. Komar, Cleveland State University, USA; J. Claiborne Stephens, Genomics GPS, LLC USA and energized by Keynote presentations.

This 2nd International Conference on Genomics and Pharmacogenomics uplifted with more than 30 oral presentations by researchers, scientists, professors, industry delegates and more than 6 poster participants around the globe. OMICS Group International has taken the privilege of felicitating Earth Science-2014 Organizing Committee Members, Editorial Board Members of the supported Journals and Keynote Speakers who supported for the success of this event.

Last but not the leastOMICS GroupInternational Conferences wishes to acknowledge with its deep sincere gratitude to all the supporters from the Editorial Board Members of our Open Access Journals, Keynote speakers, Honorable guests, Valuable speakers, Poster presenters, students, delegates and special thanks to the Exhibitors andMedia partnersfor their support to make this event a huge success.

With enormous feedback from the participants and supporters of 2nd International Conference on Genomics and Pharmacogenomics, OMICS Group conferences is glad to announce its 3rd International Conference on Genomics and Pharmacogenomics (Genomics-2015) event fron September 21-23, 2015 at San Antonio, USA.

Genomics-2013

The International Conference on Functional and Comparative Genomics & Pharmacogenomics (Genomics-2013) was organized by the OMICS Group during November 12-14, 2013 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago-North Shore, IL, USA. The conference was well received with participation from Genomics-2013 Organizing Committee Members, researchers, scientists, technologists and students from various parts of the world. The three day program witnessed thought provoking speeches from experts which focused on the theme Recent Research Methodologies and Discoveries in Genomics Era. The theme touched upon various topics like

Functional and Comparative Genomics Pharmacogenomics and Personalized medicine Evolutionary and Developmental Genomics Bioinformatics in Genomics & Proteomics Cancergenomics Epigenomics, Transcriptomics and Non-coding genomics Genome Sequencing & Mapping Plant & Ecological Genomics Biomarkers & Molecular Markers

The Conference has gathered support from The European Society of Pharmacogenomics and Theranostics (ESPT), The Nestle Institute of Health Sciences and Geneticational.

Genomics-2013 has swirl up the scientific thoughts on various current genome research related areas. The conference has shown scope of pharmacogenomics (studies of how variations in the human genome affect response to the drugs) and its implications in global health and pharma industry. The conference focused on how pharmacogenomics aids in diagnosing genetic information thus helping to predict not only patients drug response but also many other effects like adverse drug effects and their interactions and the diseases related to that gene. The conference was initiated with a series of invited lectures delivered by both Honorable Guests and members of the Keynote Forum.

Clyde A. Hutchison, Distinguished Investigator from J. Craig Venter Institute, USA who helped in determining the first complete sequence of a DNA molecule (phiX174) and developed site-directed mutagenesis with Michael Smith (1978) delivered a phenomenal and worthy keynote presentation on Building a minimal cell The JCVI design-build-test cycle for synthetic cells during the conference.

Roger Hendrix, Distinguished Professor from University of Pittsburgh, USA explained how he and his group are involved in Genomic analysis of bacteriophages.

William C. Reinhold from National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA presented his speech on The current state of comparative genomics and pharmacogenomics, and the application of the NCI-60 resources and CellMiner tools to these problems.

The conference was chaired by Alexander Bolshoy, Yasuo Iwadate, Gil Atzmon, Gary A. Bulla, Jatinder Lamba, William C. Reinhold, Luciano Brocchieri and Ning-Sun Yang.

Along with the participants of Genomics-2013, we would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Alexander Bolshoy and Dr. William C. Reinhold for their extreme support and assistance towards the conference.

Students from various parts of the world took active participation in poster presentations. Mr. Aren Ewing and Mr. Chih-Yao Hsu were awarded with best posters for their outstanding contribution.

OMICS Group also took the privilege of felicitating Genomics-2013 Organizing Committee, Editorial Board Members of Journal of Data Mining in Genomics and Proteomics, Journal of Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoproteomics, Journal of Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology and Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Keynote Speakers, Chair and Co-Chairs whose support led the conference into the path of excellence.

The warm support and suggestions from all the participants, inspires us in organizing 2nd International Conference on Genomics & Pharmacogenomics which will be held during September 08-09, 2014 Raleigh, USA.

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Hormone Therapy: Progesterone – Diet-Weight Loss-Hormones …

Progesterone

Progesterone is the Happy Hormone:

The feel-good/romantic hormone for men & women!

Progesterone is a hormone made primarily by the ovaries at ovulation. From the point of ovulation to the first day of your period (the luteal phase), is when progesterone levels are usually at their highest. When the ovaries are not producing progesterone, the adrenal glands are the primary producers. Progesterone is used by the body to make other hormones such as estrogen and testosterone. Cortisol, the stress hormone, is also formed from progesterone. Dr. Mac states that progesterone is the one and true Chill Pill. Progesterone supplementation helps with sleep, anxiety, depression, aging, uterine and prostate problems. Progesterone is also known to help with being in present time and increasing attentiveness. It is the candlelight and music hormone, the hormone for romance.

Estrogen Dominance

Progesterone is needed in hormone replacement therapy for men and women for many reasons, but one of its most important roles is to balance or oppose the effects caused by estrogen dominance. Women who have suffered from PMS and menopausal symptoms will recognize the hallmark symptoms of estrogen dominance: weight gain, bloating, mood swings, irritability, tender breasts, headaches, fatigue, depression, hypoglycemia, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, and fibrocystic breasts. Estrogen dominance is known to cause six different types of cancers including breast, ovary, cervical, uterine and prostate cancers. Estrogen dominance occurs because of menopause, stress and the environment. After menopause, estrogen levels may drop 60% but progesterone levels drop to near zero. The drop in estrogen usually gets the blame for menopause and the stop of menses, but its the combined drop of all the sex hormones that causes the symptoms of menopause. Stress causes progesterone levels to be affected. People under stress find progesterone to be very effective in their ability to handle stress. Xeno-estrogens and phyto-estrogens found in the environment are also affecting society. They cause men to be estrogen dominant as they age. They also are being blamed for early puberty now being seen in seven year old girls. Xeno-estrogens are found in plastic bottles, pesticides and fertilizers. Dr. Mac once gave a lecture, where he had the highest estrogen level in the room. There were twenty-seven women in attendance.

Bio-identical Progesterone vs. Synthetic Progesterone

Many patients ask us why they should use bio-identical progesterone instead of the synthetic progesterone such as progestin Provera which traditionally prescribed by physicians. Bio-identical Progesterone is preferable to the synthetic progestins such as Provera, because it is natural to the body and has no undesirable side effects when used as directed. If you have any doubts about how different progesterone is from the progestins, remember that the placenta produces 300-400 mg of progesterone daily during the last few months of pregnancy, so we know that such levels are safe for the developing baby. But progestins, even at fractions of this dose, can cause birth defects. The progestins also cause many other side effects, including partial loss of vision, breast cancer in test dogs, an increased risk of strokes, fluid retention, migraine headaches, asthma, cardiac irregularities and depression.

Premenopausal Woman and Progesterone

In the ten to fifteen years before menopause, many women regularly make enough estrogen to create menstruation, but do not ovulate. Without ovulation progesterone is not produced, thus setting the stage for estrogen dominance. We recommend utilizing progesterone cream during this time to help prevent the symptoms of PMS.

Bio-identical Progesterone is made from plants

Progesterone used for bioidentical hormone replacement comes from plant fats and oils, usually a substance called diosgenin which is extracted from a very specific type of wild yam that grows in Mexico, or from soybeans. In the laboratory diosgenin is chemically synthesized into the identical progesterone made by humans. Some companies sell diosgenin, which they label "wild yam extracts. There is doubt that the body can actually convert diosgenin into progesterone.

Progesterone cream application

Progesterone is easily absorbed through the skin and into the capillaries. Thus absorption is best where skin is thin: face, neck, chest, breasts, inner arms and palms of the hands. Women with fibrocystic breasts should apply progesterone directly to the breast this will help reduce and in many cases eliminate lumpy breasts. The Mac Protocol usually begins by applying Progesterone cream to the chest and breasts at night. Progesterone will help you sleep. It is always best to use creams after a shower or bath, but in progesterones case always use it at night, especially in the beginning. Do not apply on fatty areas of skin. Skin should be clean and dry. Spread a thin layer on a large surface to increase absorption. Rub the cream in thoroughly (approx. 10 times back and forth). As time passes, after a few months we will have you rotate the areas for application of the cream so that individual sites do not become saturated. Cream will dry in 5 to 10 minutes and should not be washed off for approximately 2 hours. Therefore activities such as bathing, swimming, exercising (inducing sweat) can wash the medication off your skin and should be avoided for 2 hours following application.

Cycling

The Mac Protocol utilizes a unique and easy cycling method. Since we utilize small doses of bHRT, it is very safe and side effects rarely occur. As for cycling, our unique approach utilizes a womans natural cycle. Women with monthly menstrual cycles should apply a minimal dose on days 1-14 and then increase the dose during the days 15-28. (Day 1 is the beginning of your menstrual cycle and may fall on any calendar date). For postmenopausal women, apply cream for the first 28 days of the calendar month than take three days off. But just like estrogen many women prefer to use it on a daily basis. If you experience any skin irritation or allergic reaction, discontinue use and call our office.

The Mac Protocols Recommended Progesterone Dosage

For premenopausal women the usual beginning dose is 20 mg/day for days 1-14 and 40-100 mg/day during days 15-28. Progesterone cream will come in 10 ml applicators. 1 ml will usually contain 100 mg of progesterone. Women will usually start with 1/5 of a ml which would be equal to 20 mgs.

For postmenopausal women, we recommend beginning with 20 mg/day than revisiting the dosage monthly and increasing the dosage if necessary until progesterone deficiency symptoms have diminished. There are three protocols for Post menopausal women and to our observance we have not seen much difference between the three, making not one of them better or worse than the other. Protocol 1: utilize the recommended dose for 25 days continuously and discontinue for 3 days. Protocol 2: utilize the recommended dose for 28 days continuously and discontinue for 3 days. Protocol 3: utilize the recommended dose daily. You choose the protocol that you feels make more sense to you.

Progesterone cream risks

During the third trimester of pregnancy, the placenta produces about 300 mg of progesterone daily, so we know that a one-time overdose of the cream is virtually impossible. If you use an entire syringe of cream at once it might make you sleepy. However, we recommend that women avoid using higher than the recommended dosage to avoid hormone imbalances. More is not better when it comes to hormone optimization.

Progesterone pills?

We recommend transdermal cream rather than oral progesterone, because some 80% to 90% of the oral dose is lost through the liver. Thus, at least 200 to 400 mg daily is needed orally to achieve a physiologic dose of 20 to 40 mg daily. Such high doses create undesirable metabolites and unnecessarily overload the liver. In some cases, particularly with women who have sleeping disorders, we may choose an oral application, due to research that indicates it may be more helpful than creams

Men use progesterone?

Our office has certainly received its share of calls from men interested in progesterone to treat hormone imbalance and male menopause, and benign prostatic hypertrophy (enlarged cells in the prostate gland) or hyperplasia (enlarged by an increase in the number of cells in the gland), commonly referred to as BPH. We have found Progesterone in men to be vital for good health. It is the primary precursor of their adrenal cortical hormones and testosterone. Men synthesize progesterone in smaller amounts than women do but it is still important. Both the prostate gland and the uterus develop from the same embryonic cells, and both respond to the same hormones - estrodiol, progesterone, and testosterone. In the same manner, both the ovaries and the testes develop from the same embryonic cells. A fertilized ovum with XX chromosomes develops ovaries and a uterus, while the fertilized ovum with XY chromosomes develops testes and a prostate gland.

Dr John Lee writes, in his publication What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Prostate Health & Natural Hormone Supplementation that in the prostate (and in the hair follicles) is an enzyme (5-alpha-reductase) that converts testosterone into dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Higher DHT levels in hair follicles are a primary cause of male pattern baldness. He argues that DHT stimulates proliferation of prostate cells, more so than testosterone does, enlarging the prostate gland and narrowing the urethral channel, leading to urination problems, and speculation that elevated DHT is the cause of prostate cancer. Inhibiting this conversion of testosterone to DHT is often a treatment goal for men with BPH. Since progesterone is a potent inhibitor of 5-alpha-reductase, the decline of progesterone in aging males plays a role in increasing DHT. Adding progesterone back into the body helps restore normal inhibition of 5-alpha-reductase, thus preventing testosterone from changing into (DHT). Basically, Dr. Lee suggested men undergo progesterone replacement therapy using a maintenance dose of 10mg a day to protect against prostate cancer.

Application sites for men

If you have an enlarged prostate or a chronic prostate problem, then we suggest you apply cream directly to the testes. Otherwise, we recommend that the sites of application mirror those adopted by women, inner arms, inner forearms, back of knees, upper chest, neck, etc. Areas where the blood vessels are very close to the skin, avoiding fatty areas like the stomach and buttocks, and avoid hairy areas. We have found that too much cream may cause fluid retention, headaches and other associated symptoms so please use only small doses of 10mg a day. Our Doctors will usually write the prescription for 50 mg per gram/ml. The cream will usually come in 10 ml applicators. You will use one small line or 1/5th a ml.

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Danse Macabre and Santa Muerte (Saint Death!) in Week Devoted to Anthropomorphized Death at London’s Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series at The Last Tuesday Society

The Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series
Macabre-minded Brooklynites Morbid Anatomy pay a flying visit to London, to deliver a series of talks. Cinematic vampires, folk medicine, mythical beasts and the cult of Santa Muerte (Saint Death) all feature on the agenda ...
--Eurostar's Metropolitan Magazine, July 2013

This week begins, I am very sad to announce, the final month of The Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series at London's Last Tuesday Society and, perhaps appropriately, the focus of this week is the figure of anthropomorphized death. Tomorrow night--Tuesday, July 9th--Alexander L. Bieri will present an illustrated lecture on the history of the "Danse Macabre," an art form popularized during the Bubonic Plague years in which an anthropomorphized figure of Death leads peasants, princes, popes and kings in a merry dance to the grave (2nd image down). The very next evening, Wednesday July 10th, Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut--author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint--will introduce us to the fascinating Mexican-based religion devoted to Santa Muerte, or literally, "Saint Death" (top image), "a branch of Catholicism which takes at its central figure the most powerful of all saints--Saint Death herself, the saint all must, after all, one day answer to."

In the following weeks, we also have an illustrated lecture on the amulet and charm collection of Edward Lovett by The Welcome Library's Ross MacFarlane (Monday July 15th); A cinematic survey of "The Vampires of London with the BFI's William Fowler and Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor (Thursday, July 18th); a collection of short films from the BFI pertaining to British folk customs (Wednesday July 24th) and an illustrated lecture on the natural history of mythical creatures such as satryrs in early modern illustrated books.

Following are full details for all of these few remaining nights of the Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series at The Last Tuesday Society; Hope very much to see you at one or more!

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The Coming of Age of the Danse Macabre on the Verge of the Industrial Age: Illustrated lecture with Alexander L. Bieri

9th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

During the middle ages, the danse macabre developed into an independent art form, most often in the shape of murals which adorned the walls of cemeteries. These depictions of death followed a strict rulebook and generally were a representation of the class system of the time, which was based on nobility or – to be more precise – the estate-based society. The advent of the bourgeois during the 1700s and the upcoming industrialisation put a question mark not only behind the societal system, but quite naturally also behind many of the established art forms. The danse macabre was widely regarded to be an outdated concept and a discussion evolved whether the skeleton still was the appropriate epitome for death. One of the proponents of this discussion was the Swiss artist Johann Rudolf Schellenberg, who created the first modern danse macabre in 1785, far away from the old class system, a work of art which still has an uncanny actuality and addresses many of the modern fears still extant in society at present. His trailblazing work updated the genre overnight and can be seen as the master source of all similar works of art to follow. A complete set of the plates is held by the Roche Historical Collection and Archive in Basel, which also holds one of the world’s oldest anatomical collections. The lecture not only discusses Schellenberg’s danse macabre in detail, but also gives an insight into the current fascination with vanitas and its depictions, especially focusing on the artistic exploitation of the theme and takes into consideration the history of anatomical dissection and preparation.

Alexander L. Bieri (*1976) is the curator of the Roche Historical Collection and Archive, a department within Roche Group Holdings. He assumes this position since 1999. Based in Basel, Switzerland but active as a consultant throughout the world, he has published many books and articles both on Roche-related and other themes. He also is responsible for a variety of Roche in-house museums and curated special exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad. In his capacity as an expert for 20th century architecture and design, he is a member of ICOMOS. In 2012, he was appointed lecturer for exhibition design at the Basel University.

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Viva la Muerte: The Mushrooming Cult of Saint Death": Illustrated lecture and book signing with Andrew Chesnut

10th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

The worship of Santa Muerte, a psuedo Catholic saint which takes the form of a personified and clothed lady death, is on the rise and increasingly controversial in Mexico and the United States. Literally translating to “Holy Death” or “Saint Death,” the worship of Santa Muerte–like Day of the Dead–is a popular form of religious expression rooted in a rich syncretism of the beliefs of the native Latin Americans and the colonizing Spanish Catholics. Worshippers of "The Bony Lady" include the very poor, prostitutes, drug dealers, transvestites, prison inmates and others for whom traditional religion has not served, and for whom the possibility of unpredictable and violent death is a very real part of everyday life. In the view of her worshippers, Santa Muerte is simply a branch of Catholicism which takes at its central figure the most powerful of all saints--Saint Death herself, the saint all must, after all, one day answer to. The Catholic Church sees it, however, as, at best, inadvertent devil worship, with the worship of death--and the manifestation of a saint from a concept rather than an individual--as heretical to its core tenants. Tonight, R. Andrew Chesnut, author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint and Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, will detail his research into the history and ongoing development of this fascinating "new religion."

Copies of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint will be available for sale and signing.

Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut earned his Ph.D degree in Latin American History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995 and joined the History Department faculty at the University of Houston in 1997 where he quickly became an internationally recognized expert on Latin American religious history. His most recent book is Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press, 2012). It is the first in-depth study of the Mexican folk saint in English.

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From Blue Beads to Hair Sandwiches: Edward Lovett and London's Folk Medicine: An Illustrated lecture with Ross MacFarlane, Research Engagement Officer in the Wellcome Library

15th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

During his life Edward Lovett (1852-1933) amassed one of the largest collections of objects pertaining to 'folk medicine' in the British Isles. Lovett particularly focused his attention on objects derived from contemporary, working class Londoners, believing that the amulets, charms and mascots he collected - and which were still being used in 20th century London - were 'survivals' of antiquated, rural practices. Lovett, however, was a marginal figure in folklore circles, never attaining the same degree of influence as many of his peers. Whilst he hoped in his lifetime to establish a 'National Museum of Folklore', Lovett's sizeable collection is now widely dispersed across many museums in the UK, including Wellcome Collection, the Science Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Cuming Museum. This paper will offer an overview of the range of healing objects Lovett collected, the collecting practices he performed and recent efforts to rehabilitate his reputation.

Ross MacFarlane is Research Engagement Officer in the Wellcome Library, where he is heavily involved in promoting the Library's collections, particularly to academic audiences. He has researched and given public talks on such topics as the history of early recorded sound and the collecting activities of Henry Wellcome and his members of staff. Ross is a frequent contributor to the Wellcome Library's blog and has had led guided walks around London on the occult past of Bloomsbury and the intersection of medicine, science and trade in Greenwich and Deptford.

More here.

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The Vampires of London: A Cinematic Survey with William Fowler (BFI) and Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor)

18th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

This heavily illustrated presentation and film clip selection explores London's Highgate Cemetery as a locus of horror in the 1960s and 1970s cinema, from mondo and exploitation to classic Hammer horror.

William Fowler is curator of artists' moving image at the BFI National Archive and co-programmes the cult cinema strand at Flipside at BFI Southbank.

Mark Pilkington runs Strange Attractor Press and is the author of 'Mirage Men' and 'Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge'.

More here.

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"Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: a Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games" Screenings of Short Films from the BFI Folk Film Archives with William Fowler

24th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

Tonight, the British Film Institute's William Fowler will present a number of rare and beautiful short films from the BFI National Archive and Regional Film Archives showing some of our rich traditions of folk music, dance, customs and sport. Highlights include the alcoholic folk musical Here's a Health to the Barley Mow (1955), Doc Rowe’s speedy sword dancing film and the Padstow Mayday celebration Oss Oss Wee Oss (Alan Lomax/Peter Kennedy 1953).

The programme provides a taste of the BFI's 6-hour DVD release 'Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: a Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games', a rich and wide-ranging collection of archive films from around the UK.

William Fowler is curator of artists' moving image at the BFI National Archive and co-programmes the cult cinema strand at Flipside at BFI Southbank.

More here.

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Of Satyrs, Horses and Camels: Natural History in the Imaginative Mode: illustrated lecture by Daniel Margócsy, Hunter College, New York

25th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

This talk argues that the creative imagination played a crucial role in the development of science during the scientific revolution. Modern, natural knowledge emerged from the interaction of painters, printmakers, artisans, cartographers, and natural historians. All these practitioners carefully observed, pictured and cataloged all the exotic naturalia that flooded Europe during the Columbian exchange. Yet their collaboration did not end there. They also engaged in a joint, conjectural guesswork as to what other, as yet unknown plants and animals might hide in the forests of New England, the archipelago of the Caribbean, the unfathomable depths of the Northern Sea, or even in the cavernous mountains of the Moon. From its beginnings, science was (and still is) an imaginative and speculative enterprise, just like the arts. This talk traces the exchange of visual information between the major artists of the Renaissance and the leading natural historians of the scientific revolution. It shows how painters’ and printmakers’ fictitious images of unicorns, camels and monkfish came to populate the botanical and zoological encyclopedias of early modern Europe. The leading naturalists of the age, including Conrad Gesner, Carolus Clusius and John Jonstonus, constantly consulted the oeuvre of Dürer, Rubens and Hendrick Goltzius, among others, as an inspiration to hypothesize how unknown, and unseen, plants and animals might look like.

Daniel Margocsy is assistant professor of history at Hunter College – CUNY. In 2012/3, he is the Birkelund Fellow of the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He has co-edited States of Secrecy, a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science on scientific secrecy, and published articles in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Annals of Science, and the Netherlands Yearbook of Art History.

More here.

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All talks and workshops take place at The Last Tuesday Society at 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP map here) unless otherwise specified; please click here to buy tickets. More on all events can be found here. Click on images to see larger versions.

Top image: Santa Muerte figurine, © Joanna Ebenstein
Bottom image: Danse Macabre; found hereSource:
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Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series at Last Tuesday Society in Yesterday’s "Hackney Citizen"

Kill time at death talks: Morbid Anatomy lecture series at Last Tuesday Society
Batty events for those with grave concerns take in such subjects as the Neapolitan cult of the dead and London’s folk medicine

The summer months have heralded the arrival of a new lecture series.

The subject is death.
Proceedings at the Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series, which began last month and is continuing through July at The Last Tuesday Society in Mare Street, have included a “wax wound workshop” and a talk on the Neapolitan cult of the dead.
Still to come are talks on the “danse macabre” and London’s folk medicine, and there will be an opportunity to create your very own bat in glass dome – using a real dead bat....

Read the entire article--by Hannah Langworth in yesterday's Hackney Citizen--by clicking here.

Following is a list of the remaining events in the Last Tuesday Society's Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series; Hope to see you at one or more of these terrific events!

The image you see above is a fresco of "The Triumph of Death" in Palermo, painted by an unknown artist around 1446 and seen in the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis.

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Bat in Glass Dome Workshop: Part of DIY Wunderkammer Series : With Wilder Duncan (formerly of Evolution Store, Soho) and Laetitia Barbier, head librarian at The Morbid Anatomy Library

29th June and 30th June 2013, 1 to 5pm

Ticket price £150; Tickets here (29th) and here (30th)

In this class, students will learn how to create an osteological preparation of a bat in the fashion of 19th century zoological displays. A bat skeleton, a glass dome, branches, glue, tools, and all necessary materials will be provided for each student, but one should feel welcome to bring small feathers, stones, dried flowers, dead insects, natural elements, or any other materials s/he might wish to include in his/her composition. Students will leave the class with a visually striking, fully articulated, “lifelike” bat skeleton posed in a 10” tall glass dome. This piece can, in conjunction with the other creations in the DIY Wunderkammer workshop series, act as the beginning of a genuine collection of curiosities! This class is part of the DIY Wunderkammer workshop series, curated by Laetitia Barbier and Wilder Duncan for Morbid Anatomy as a creative and pluridisciplinary exploration of the Curiosity Cabinet. The classes will focus on teaching ancient methods of specimen preparation that link science with art: students will create compositions involving natural elements and, according to their taste, will compose a traditional Victorian environment or a modern display. More on the series can be found here.

Wilder Duncan is an artist whose work puts a modern-day spin on the genre of Vanitas still life. Although formally trained as a realist painter at Wesleyan University, he has had a lifelong passion for, and interest in, natural history. Self-taught rogue taxidermist and professional specimen preparator, Wilder worked for several years at The Evolution Store creating, repairing, and restoring objects of natural historical interest such as taxidermy, fossils, seashells, minerals, insects, tribal sculptures, and articulated skeletons both animal and human. Wilder continues to do work for private collectors, giving a new life to old mounts, and new smiles to toothless skulls.

Laetitia Barbier is the head librarian at The Morbid Anatomy Library. She is working on a master’s thesis for the Paris Sorbonne on painter Joe Coleman. She writes for Atlas Obscura and Morbid Anatomy.

More here (29th) and here (30th).

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The Coming of Age of the Danse Macabre on the Verge of the Industrial Age: Illustrated lecture with Alexander L. Bieri

9th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

More here.

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Photo courtesy of
Tonya Hurley

Viva la Muerte: The Mushrooming Cult of Saint Death": Illustrated lecture and book signing with Andrew Chesnut

10th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

The worship of Santa Muerte, a psuedo Catholic saint which takes the form of a personified and clothed lady death, is on the rise and increasingly controversial in Mexico and the United States. Literally translating to “Holy Death” or “Saint Death,” the worship of Santa Muerte–like Day of the Dead–is a popular form of religious expression rooted in a rich syncretism of the beliefs of the native Latin Americans and the colonizing Spanish Catholics. Worshippers of "The Bony Lady" include the very poor, prostitutes, drug dealers, transvestites, prison inmates and others for whom traditional religion has not served, and for whom the possibility of unpredictable and violent death is a very real part of everyday life. In the view of her worshippers, Santa Muerte is simply a branch of Catholicism which takes at its central figure the most powerful of all saints--Saint Death herself, the saint all must, after all, one day answer to.The Catholic Church sees it, however, as, at best, inadvertent devil worship, with the worship of death--and the manifestation of a saint from a concept rather than an individual--as heretical to its core tenants. Tonight, R. Andrew Chesnut, author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint and Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, will detail his research into the history and ongoing development of this fascinating "new religion."

Copies of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Sain will be available for sale and signing.

More here.

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From Blue Beads to Hair Sandwiches: Edward Lovett and London's Folk Medicine: An Illustrated lecture with Ross MacFarlane, Research Engagement Officer in the Wellcome Library

15th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

More here.

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The Vampires of London: A Cinematic Survey with William Fowler (BFI) and Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor)

18th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

William Fowler is curator of artists' moving image at the BFI National Archive and co-programmes the cult cinema strand at Flipside at BFI Southbank.

Mark Pilkington runs Strange Attractor Press and is the author of 'Mirage Men' and 'Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge'.

More here.

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"Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: a Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games" Screenings of Short Films from the BFI Folk Film Archives with William Fowler

24th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

William Fowler is curator of artists' moving image at the BFI National Archive and co-programmes the cult cinema strand at Flipside at BFI Southbank.

More here.

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Of Satyrs, Horses and Camels: Natural History in the Imaginative Mode: illustrated lecture by Daniel Margócsy, Hunter College, New York

25th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

More here.

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Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/06/morbid-anatomy-lecture-series-at-last.html

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Tonight and Beyond: Virtual Tour of the Vrolik Anatomical Museum! Galvani’s "Walking Dead" of 1803! The Influencing Machine! Madame Tussaud and the Guillotine! Bats in Glass Domes! The Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series This Week and Next at London’s Last Tuesday Society

Hello London Friends!

Are you interested in learning about the incredible holdings of Amsterdam's Vrolik Museum (top three images) with its "two skeletons of dwarves, rare Siamese twins, cyclops and sirens, dozens of pathologically deformed bones, the giant skull of a grown man with hydrocephalus, the skeleton of the lion once owned by king Louis Napoleon, as well as the organs of a babirusa, Tasmanian devil and tree kangaroo"? If so, then tonight's (Monday, June 24th) heavily illustrated lecture by its curator Laurens de Rooy flown in direct from The Netherlans is the night for you.

If this does not interest, perhaps you might be interested in a talk (and demonstration!) by The Science Museum's Phil Loring on Galvani's experiments to wake the dead in 19th century London? (Tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 25th) Or, failing that, perhaps we might be able to tempt you with an illustrated lecture by the incredible Mike Jay on James Tilly Matthews’ "influencing machine" (Wednesday, June 26th)? If this still does not suit, then perhaps you might wish to take in an illustrated lecture by Pamela Pilbeam--author of Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks-- on Madame Tussaud and the Guillotine (4th down; Thursday, June 27th).

Perhaps lectures are simply not your thing! In that case, perhaps you might like to attend a backstage tour of the zoological collections of The Natural History Museum (Friday June 28th) or a workshop on the crafting of bat skeletons in glass domes (bottom image; Saturday and Sunday, June 29th and 30th).

Full details and ticket links follow; most events cost £7 and take place at 7pm at London's Last Tuesday Society. Hope to see you at one or more!

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Face lift or face reconstruction? Redesigning the Museum Vrolik, Amsterdam's anatomical museum: An illustrated lecture with Dr. Laurens de Rooy, curator of the Museum Vrolik in Amsterdam

24th June 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

Copies of the book Forces of Form: The Vrolik Museum will be available for sale and signing.

Two skeletons of dwarves, rare Siamese twins, cyclops and sirens, dozens of pathologically deformed bones, the giant skull of a grown man with hydrocephalus, the skeleton of the lion once owned by king Louis Napoleon, as well as the organs of a babirusa, Tasmanian devil and tree kangaroo – rare animals that died in the Amsterdam zoo ‘Artis’ shortly before their dissection. Counting more than five thousand preparations and specimens, the Museum Vrolikianum, the private collection of father Gerard (1775-1859) and his son Willem Vrolik (1801-1863), was an amazing object of interest one hundred and fifty years ago. In the 1840s and 50s this museum, established in Gerard’s stately mansion on the river Amstel, grew into a famous collection that attracted admiring scientists from both the Netherlands and abroad. After the Vrolik era, the museum was expanded with new collections by succeeding anatomists and the museum now houses more than 10,000 anatomical specimens.

Since 1984, the museum has been located in the academic Hospital of the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 the museum collections were portrayed by the photographer Hans van den Bogaard for the book Forces of Form. This book was the starting point for the creation of a new 'aesthetic' of the museum and its collection, eventually resulting in the grand reopening of the renovated and redesigned permanent exhibition in September 2012. For the first time since the death of father and son Vrolik, all of their scientific interests - the animal anatomy, the congenital malformations and the pathologically deformed human skeletons can all be viewed together, thus giving an impression of what that mid-19th century anatomy was all about. In this talk, Museum Vrolik curator will take you on a guided tour of the new museum, and give an overview of all the other aspects of the 'new' Museum Vrolik.

Dr. Laurens de Rooy (b. 1974) works as a curator of the Museum Vrolik in the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam. He studied Medical Biology, specializing in the history of science and museology. during his internship he researched the collection of father and son Vrolik. In 2009 he obtained his PhD in medical history.

More here.

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The Walking Dead in 1803: An Illustrated Lecture with Phil Loring,
Curator of Psychology at the Science Museum in London

25th June 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

A visiting Italian startled Londoners at the turn of the 19th century by making decapitated animals and executed men open their eyes and move around, as if on the verge of being restored to life. This was not magic but the power of electricity from the newly invented Galvanic trough, or battery. It was also the dawn of the modern neurosciences, as the thrust behind these macabre experiments was to understand the energy that moved through the nerves and linked our wills to our bodies. This talk will discuss a variety of historical instruments from the Science Museum's collections that figured in these re-animation experiments, including the apparatus used by Galvani himself in his laboratory in Bologna. This will be a partial preview of an upcoming Science Museum exhibition on nerve activity, to open in December 2013.

Phil Loring is BPS Curator of Psychology at the Science Museum in London. He has a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology from Harvard University and is currently completing his Ph.D. in the History of Science, also from Harvard, with a dissertation on psycho-linguists in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after the Second World War. Phil has been at the Science Museum since 2009, and during that time he has been particularly committed to sharing artefacts related to psychology and psychiatry with adult audiences. He's currently preparing an exhibition on the history of nerves, to open in December 2013.

More here.

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The Influencing Machine: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom with Mike Jay

26th June 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews’ case is one of the most bizarre in the annals of psychiatry. He was the first person to insist that his mind was being controlled by a machine: the Air Loom, a terrifying secret weapon whose mesmeric rays and mysterious gases were brainwashing politicians and plunging Europe into revolution, terror and war. But Matthews’ case was even stranger than his doctors realised: many of the incredible conspiracies in which he claimed to be involved were entirely real. Caught up in high-level diplomatic intrigues in the chaos of the French revolution, he found himself betrayed by both sides, and in possession of a secret that no-one would believe…

Mike Jay is an author, historian and curator who has written widely on the history of science and medicine, and particularly on drugs and madness. As well as The Influencing Machine, he is the author of Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century and High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture, which accompanied the exhibition he curated at Wellcome Collection.

More here.

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Madame Tussaud, the French and the Guillotine: Illustrated Lecture by Pamela Pilbeam Emeritus Professor of French History, Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks

27th June 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

`You perceive that this is some sort of holy of holiest, the nearest Victorians got to a Cathedral, with its saints enniched within’. The chief saint in Madame Tussaud’s exhibition was Bonaparte, the chief villains were Robespierre and his revolutionary colleagues. When she arrived in Britain in 1802 for a short tour that lasted until she died in 1850, her exhibition was an exploration of the evils of the French Revolution. She had modelled the guillotined revolutionaries, as well as Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, from their severed heads- and brought a model of a guillotine and the Bastille fortress to expose the short comings of the French. The British, busily at war with their nearest neighbour, loved this critical exposure. Later the focus of her collection became her `Shrine to Napoleon’ consisted of two rooms dedicated to the Emperor. Napoleon had always had a leading role in her touring company, but in 1834, when she was a well-established figure in the world of entertainment and about to open a permanent museum in Baker Street, Madame. Tussaud began to amass large quantities of Napoleonic memorabilia. She built up a collection which Napoleon III acknowledged, when he tried abortively to buy it from the Tussauds, to be the best in the world. Madame Tussaud’s presentation of French politics and history did much to inform and influence the popular perception of France among the British. This paper will explore that view and how it changed during the nineteenth century.

Pamela Pilbeam is Emeritus Professor of French History, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks.

More here.

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Backstage Tour of the Zoological Collection of the Natural History Museum with Miranda Lowe

28th June 2013

Limited to 10 participants; Time 3:00 - 4:00

Ticket price £20; Tickets here

Today, ten lucky people will get to join Miranda Lowe, Collections Manager of the Aquatic Invertebrates Division, for a special backstage tour of The Natural History Museum of London. The tour will showcase the zoological spirit collections in the Darwin Centre, some of Darwin’s barnacles and the famed collection of glass marine invertebrate models crafted by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the 19th and early 20th century.

Miranda Lowe is the Collections Manager of the Aquatic Invertebrates Division, Life Sciences Department, The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. Within Zoology Miranda specifically manages the Crustacea collections as well as the team of curators responsible for the Invertebrate collections. Darwin barnacles and the Blaschka marine invertebrate glass models are amongst some of the historical collections that are her interests and under her care. In 2006, she was part of the organising committee and invited speaker at the 1st international Blaschka congress held in Dublin. Miranda collaborated with the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK in 2008 to exhibit some of the Museum’s Blaschka collection alongside contemporary Blaschka inspired art. She also has an interest in photography, natural history - past and present serving on a number of committees including the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH) and the Natural Sciences Association (NatSCA).

More here.

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Bat in Glass Dome Workshop: Part of DIY Wunderkammer Series : With Wilder Duncan (formerly of Evolution Store, Soho) and Laetitia Barbier, head librarian at The Morbid Anatomy Library

29th June and 30th June 2013, 1 to 5pm

Ticket price £150; Tickets here (29th) and here (30th)

More here (29th) and here (30th).

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The Coming of Age of the Danse Macabre on the Verge of the Industrial Age: Illustrated lecture with Alexander L. Bieri

9th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

More here.

________________________________

Photo courtesy of
Tonya Hurley

Viva la Muerte: The Mushrooming Cult of Saint Death": Illustrated lecture and book signing with Andrew Chesnut

10th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

The worship of Santa Muerte, a psuedo Catholic saint which takes the form of a personified and clothed lady death, is on the rise and increasingly controversial in Mexico and the United States. Literally translating to “Holy Death” or “Saint Death,” the worship of Santa Muerte–like Day of the Dead–is a popular form of religious expression rooted in a rich syncretism of the beliefs of the native Latin Americans and the colonizing Spanish Catholics. Worshippers of "The Bony Lady" include the very poor, prostitutes, drug dealers, transvestites, prison inmates and others for whom traditional religion has not served, and for whom the possibility of unpredictable and violent death is a very real part of everyday life. In the view of her worshippers, Santa Muerte is simply a branch of Catholicism which takes at its central figure the most powerful of all saints--Saint Death herself, the saint all must, after all, one day answer to.The Catholic Church sees it, however, as, at best, inadvertent devil worship, with the worship of death--and the manifestation of a saint from a concept rather than an individual--as heretical to its core tenants. Tonight, R. Andrew Chesnut, author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint and Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, will detail his research into the history and ongoing development of this fascinating "new religion."

Copies of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Sain will be available for sale and signing.

More here.

________________________________

From Blue Beads to Hair Sandwiches: Edward Lovett and London's Folk Medicine: An Illustrated lecture with Ross MacFarlane, Research Engagement Officer in the Wellcome Library

15th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

More here.

________________________________

The Vampires of London: A Cinematic Survey with William Fowler (BFI) and Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor)

18th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

William Fowler is curator of artists' moving image at the BFI National Archive and co-programmes the cult cinema strand at Flipside at BFI Southbank.

Mark Pilkington runs Strange Attractor Press and is the author of 'Mirage Men' and 'Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge'.

More here.

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"Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: a Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games" Screenings of Short Films from the BFI Folk Film Archives with William Fowler

24th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

William Fowler is curator of artists' moving image at the BFI National Archive and co-programmes the cult cinema strand at Flipside at BFI Southbank.

More here.

________________________________

Of Satyrs, Horses and Camels: Natural History in the Imaginative Mode: illustrated lecture by Daniel Margócsy, Hunter College, New York

25th July 2013

Doors at 6:30 / Talk begins at 7:00 pm

Ticket price £7; Tickets here

More here.

________________________________

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/06/tonight-and-beyond-virtual-tour-of.html

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