Over the past couple years I have seen biotech pop up in different forms in “pop-up cities“ — I ran a bio summer school, bio conferences and events, saw labs being built on site. Yet, I keep asking myself,

What are pop-up cities good for, if your goal is to advance biotech? Serendipity, collaboration, networking?

What kinds of experiments in bio and adjacent fields are pop-up cities uniquely suitable environments to be run in?

Open rountable style!

Come think about why would anyone need/want bio to be represented in these transient almost-vacation-like or school-like environments, especially in its deeper, technical form.