IGEM:VGEM/2007

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 2007 Virginia Genetically Engineered Machine Team
Welcome to the 2007 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 2007 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 Our 2007 project is focused on energy biotechnology and is titled "Harvesting Plant Biomass and Sunlight to Power Butanol Biosynthesis: A Synthetic Biology Approach to Metabolic Pathway Engineering." More information about our project can be found at our official iGEM wiki, which you can get to by clicking the iGEM logo below. Please check out our other project designs by clicking the "projects" link listed below the iGEM logo.

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

Resources

 * color="#000000">DNA2.0
 * color="#000000">GENEART
 * Registry for Standard Biological Parts
 * Guides
 * color="#000000">Fisher Scientific
 * DNA Hack
 * NCBI website
 * Systems Biology Workbench
 * Synthetic Biology Community
 * Systems and Synthetic Biology Journal
 * color="#000000">IET Synthetic Biology Journal
 * color="#000000">Synthetic Biology 2.0 Conference
 * color="#000000">Pimp my genome video
 * color="#000000">DNAi website
 * color="#000000">Rob Carlson's Blog
 * color="#000000">Biohacking Blog
 * color="#000000">Energy Biosciences Institute
 * color="#000000">R-Squared Energy Blog


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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:mcarthur@virginia.edu?subject=VGEM_Query <font color="#FFFFFF"> email the VGEM team ]

Undergraduate Team

 * <font color="#000000">George McArthur, Chemical Engineering
 * <font color="#000000">Kevin Hershey, Chemical Engineering
 * <font color="#000000">Amy Schell, Biomedical Engineering
 * <font color="#000000">Ranjan Khan, Biomedical Engineering
 * <font color="#000000">Emre Ruhi, Biology
 * Snowflake, Albino gorilla

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">Ron Bauerle, Biology

Financial Administrator

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

Photographs
''Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.''<br/ > - Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)


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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