IGEM:VGEM/2008

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 2008 Virginia Genetically Engineered Machine Team
Welcome to the 2008 VGEM Team's OpenWetWare wiki. This wiki contains the internal workings of our team, including our online lab notebook, project designs and other useful information. The VGEM Team is an undergraduate research group interested in synthetic biology and biological engineering, and will compete in MIT's 2008 international Genetically Engineered Machines competition (iGEM) in November. Check on our official iGEM wiki for our final project description and our external website for more information about the team.

Acknowledgements
The VGEM Team was made possible by the generous support from the following groups at the University of Virginia: The Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biology, and Microbiology The School of Engineering and Applied Science and the The Virginia Engineering Foundation The Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies The School of Medicine

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 Project

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 * Projects
 * Timeline
 * Calendar
 * Meetings
 * Lab Notebook
 * Summer Journal Club

Resources

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 * Registry for Standard Biological Parts
 * Guides


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 Personnel

Our group is an interdisciplinary conglomeration that includes researchers from The School of Engineering and Applied Science, The College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Medicine.

[mailto:vgem2008@virginia.edu?subject=VGEM_Query  email the VGEM team ]

Undergraduate Team

 * Dan Tarjan, Biology
 * Brandon Freshcorn, Biomedical Engineering
 * George Washington, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science
 * Eyad Lababidi, Electrical Engineering
 * <font color="#000000">Patrick Gildea, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science

Graduate Mentor

 * <font color="#000000">Brianne Ray, Microbiology

Lab Specialist

 * <font color="#000000">Kay Christopher, Biology

Faculty Advisors

 * <font color="#000000">Erik Fernandez, Chemical Engineering
 * <font color="#000000">Jason Papin, <font color="#000000">news Biomedical Engineering
 * <font color="#000000">Michael Timko, Biology

Financial Administrator

 * <font color="#000000">Bob Davis, Chemical Engineering

Photographs
''A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.''<br/ > - Freeman Dyson


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Papers

Introductions

 * <font color="#000000">Adventures in Synthetic Biology a comic by <font color="#000000">Drew Endy
 * <font color="#000000">Extreme genetic engineering: An introduction to synthetic biology
 * color="#000000">Life 2.0 Economist article
 * color="#000000">Life 2.0 Newsweek article

Reviews and Perspectives

 * <font color="#000000">Biology by Design by You et al
 * <font color="#000000">Genetic parts to program bacteria by Chris Voigt
 * <font color="#000000">Systems biology as a foundation for genome-scale synthetic biology by B. Palsson et al
 * <font color="#000000">A perspective of synthetic biology: Assembling building blocks for novel functions by Patrick Fu

Foundations

 * <font color="#000000">A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators by Michael B. Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler
 * <font color="#000000">Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli by James J. Collins et al
 * <font color="#000000">Biobricks by Tom Knight
 * <font color="#000000">Foundations for engineering biology by Drew Endy

Current Research

 * <font color="#000000">Production of isoprenoid pharmaceuticals by engineered microbes by Jay Keasling et al
 * color="#000000">Balancing a heterologous mevalonate pathway for improved isoprenoid production in Escherichia coli by Jay Keasling et al
 * <font color="#000000">Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria by Chris Voigt et al

Implications

 * color="#000000">DNA synthesis and biological security