Virginia United/2010/Readings

Synthetic Biology Overview

 * 1) Building outside the box: iGEM and the BioBricks Foundation and Five hard truths for synthetic biology
 * 2) Engineering microbes with synthetic biology frameworks
 * 3) Toward scalable parts families for predictable design of biological circuits and Evolution, ecology and the engineered organism: lessons for synthetic biology
 * 4) Synthetic biology: understanding biological design from synthetic circuits
 * 5) Next-generation synthetic gene networks
 * 6) Genome engineering
 * 7) Gene synthesis demystified

Foundational and Fundamental Synthetic Biology

 * 1) Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli
 * 2) A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators
 * 3) A modular and extensible RNA-based gene-regulatory platform for engineering cellular function
 * 4) Synthesis of orthogonal transcription-translation networks
 * 5) Refinement and standardization of synthetic biological parts and devices
 * 6) Setting the standard in synthetic biology
 * 7) Accurate prediction of gene feedback circuit behavior from component properties

Advanced and Applied Synthetic Biology

 * 1) Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate
 * 2) Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria
 * 3) Diversity-based model-guided construction of synthetic gene networks with predicted functions and Overpowering the component problem
 * 4) Synthetic gene networks that count
 * 5) Automated design of synthetic ribosome binding sites to control protein expression
 * 6) Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution
 * 7) Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux
 * 8) Engineering the Salmonella type III secretion system to export spider silk monomers

Responses

 * UVA