DNAForge × MTC: AI × Biology Hackathon
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DNAForge One will bring about 100 biology students, early-career scientists, and technical builders together for a full-day, hands-on sprint to prototype solutions in therapeutics, biosecurity, and agricultural resilience. Participants will draw on expertise spanning wet-lab and computational biology, medicine, agriculture, machine learning, software engineering, and design.
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Hosted by DNAForge One focused day for biology students, early-career scientists, and technical builders to turn consequential biological problems into working prototypes. Saturday, November 14th, 2026 Hours: 9:00 AM–9:00 PM Scale: About 100 participants Three tracks Three domains where biological judgment and technical execution must meet. Choose a problem worth a day of concentrated work. Therapeutics. Build tools that help researchers design, evaluate, or deliver new treatments. Biosecurity. Build practical defenses for biological risks, laboratory safety, and preparedness. Agricultural resilience. Build for healthier crops, stronger food systems, and biological climate adaptation. Who belongs in the room Biological fluency is a building skill. Early-career scientists, wet-lab researchers, computational biologists, clinicians, agricultural scientists, ML researchers, software engineers, and designers. Application principles Applications are individual. If you want to attend with a team, every person on that team must submit their own application. Listing teammates in your application does not apply for them. Teams can form before or during the event. We will help admitted participants find complementary collaborators. Applying does not guarantee admission. DNAForge reviews each application for this limited-capacity event. The event is in person. Every applicant must confirm they can attend in Berkeley for the full participant program. Admissions timeline Apply early. Every applicant gets a clear status. October 25th: Priority deadline. Applications received by this date receive first consideration. October 28th: First decisions. The first admission decisions are planned for this date. November 6th: Final cutoff. Last day to submit an individual application. November 7th: Final waitlist decisions. Remaining applicants receive their planned final status. Host and event support MTC Berkeley, Modal, Boltz, Tamarind Bio, GXL, Carbon Fellowship, and BenchFlow. Applican
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Last checked: Oct 15, 2026. Confirm current availability before making plans.