How to Grow (Almost) Anything - or HTGAA - is a long-running introduction course about Synthetic Biology, taught by the experts in the field. The course was initiated and is organized by David Kong from the MIT Community Biotechnology Initiative (CBI) and is run both at MIT and globally through an expanding network of global HTGAA nodes. BioClub Tokyo is proud to be a node again in 2026. If you are curious about Synthetic Biology and are willing to study hard, please come and join us! The course if free!

This event is part of our biotope observation activities in Shibuya. We have 4 biotopes which we have been taking care of since summer 2023. By enjoying observing the tiny creatures and having a dialogue session in collaboration with BioClub, we hope to give people a better understanding of the many living things we share our city with, and create an opportunity to think about how we can help make our society more sustainable for both people and nature.

Distill the Lost Fragrance of Earth (Terra) ~ A Laboratory Journey in 2225 Through “Memory and Mind Mechanisms” and “Science Fiction” ~ A 2.5-hour immersive experience redefining the world's “value” through your sense of smell and imagination.

Among the myriad sci-fi worlds out there, solarpunk and light-hearted, fluffy biopunk seem to have a rather thin following...? Let's all collaborate to create setting materials, refine them to a level usable by creators, and pioneer a new genre!

忘年会 means literally 'forget-the-year party', but we will use our last weekly meeting of 2025 as a chance to remember and celebrate what happened in and around BioClub in 2025. Join us for a little party, feel free to bring snacks - and drinks!

I will discuss my current artistic practice working with seaweed-based bioplastics, exploring how this sustainable material shapes my creative process and conceptual focus. Additionally, I will share my goals, intentions, and planned research for my upcoming residency at BioClub Tokyo.

The mysterious “super mystery meat” or “myaku myaku” – that sci-fi dream featured in Doraemon – has now made its way into the news as the real thing: cultured meat. In twenty years' time, or when ordinary people start travelling to space, food production in space will become absolutely essential. Come and join our workshop and find out how to feed cultured meat with energy drinks!

Charlie Chen is marine scientist and divemaster from the UK, currently based in Sydney, Australia. Charlie has approached marine science fron the persepctive of an academic, a scientific divemaster, a publisher, and more recently as an investor in my current role interning with Ocean Impact Organisation, a non-profit organisation aiming to support impactful startups in the ocean industry.

Today's Weekly Meeting will be online ONLY, as the usual meeting space is in use for another event. Please come and chat/connect with BioClub! This is also your chance to informally introduce yourself and share about your projects, works and ideas!

Ecosystem science has long used population dynamics to link species interactions with system-level behavior. Synthetic biology now enables the design of engineered ecosystems, from microbial consortia to large-scale habitats, employing genetically modified strains to test ecological principles and address applied challenges. We survey modeling approaches and experiments across three classes and scales: microcosms, closed ecospheres, and large-scale ecosystem interventions