SERES: MAKERS OF SILK // Workshop

SERES: MAKERS OF SILK // Workshop

Jason Fahrion, Fasih Ahsan with UCLA IGEM, and Mick Lorusso

October 22, 2015
Workshop | 5-7pm
UCLA Art|Sci Gallery
5th Floor, California Nanosystems Institute

Through the projects of artist Jason Fahrion, who raises silkworms in his garage on local mulberry leaves, and the experiments of UCLA iGEM to genetically engineer unique types of silk for medicine and design, Seres Makers of Silk introduces participants to the processes involved in the production and transformation of silk. We will physically examine and compare silk samples from the lab and studio, while also watching live silk worms and learning how IGEM spins synthetic silk. And by listening to data sonification of DNA sequences from different organisms including spiders and silkworms, we will consider the possibilities and difficulties in genetically engineering silk for future applications.