IGEM:Harvard/2007

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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 Planning

News and Announcements

 * /To Do List/
 * /Meetings/

Getting Started

 * /Background Reading/
 * Lab schedule

Scheduling

 * Lab Sign-ups
 * Personnel schedule

Projects: Cling-E. coli

 * /Bacterial Targeting/
 * /Two Component Systems/
 * /Quorum Sensing/

Project Planning

 * /Brainstorming/
 * Past project notes

For visitors

 * iGEM 2007
 * Harvard iGEM 2007 Official Page
 * iGEM teams
 * Harvard iGEM 2006
 * Harvard iGEM 2005
 * SynBio Comic
 * NYT article (11/24/05)


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 In the Lab


 * Final Presentation Slides
 * Final Plasmid/DNA Stocks

Protocols

 * Open Wetware Protocols
 * General Protocols

Lab Notebooks

 * Our protocols
 * Gels
 * Plates
 * Plasmids
 * Sequences
 * Constructs

Media Center

 * Pictures
 * Video Clips

Useful links
iGEM and OWW Literature Tools Info
 * OpenWetWare Etiquette
 * BioBricks registry
 * Pubmed for Harvard PIN holders
 * ISI Web of Science
 * Plasmid Mapper
 * Excel &rarr; Wiki Table converter
 * DNA seq reverse complement
 * Blast 2 Seq
 * IDT Oligo Analyzer
 * DNA to Protein translator
 * Presentation Advice
 * 1 kb+ ladder
 * Buffer and gel tables


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 People

Students

 * Ellenor Brown (talk)
 * Stephanie Lo (talk)
 * Alexander Pickett (talk)
 * Sammy Sambu (talk)
 * Kevin Shee (talk)
 * Perry Tsai (talk)
 * Shaunak Vankudre (talk)
 * George Xu (talk)

Teaching Fellows

 * Nicholas Guido (talk)
 * Bill Senapedis (talk)
 * Mike Strong (talk)
 * Harris Wang (talk)

Advisors

 * Debra Auguste (talk)
 * George Church (talk)
 * Jagesh V. Shah (talk)
 * William Shih (talk)
 * Pamela Silver (talk)
 * Alain Viel (talk)

Education Advisor

 * Tamara Brenner (talk)
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A basic overview about Harvard iGEM 2007: This year Harvard's team consisted of 8 undergraduate students, with backgrounds in molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, and computer science. With the help of 6 faculty advisers and 4 teaching fellows, plus one education advisor, they devised and executed a single project in the area of systems biology with three subsections, which you can find in the "projects" section above.

A basic overview about iGEM Competition: iGEM is an international arena where student teams compete to design and assemble engineered machines using advanced genetic components and technologies.

We work in the field of "synthetic biology": "Synthetic biology aims to create novel biological functions and tools by modifying or integrating well-characterized biological components (i.e. genes, promoters) into higher order genetic networks using mathematical modeling to direct the construction towards the desired end product."

2007 Harvard iGEM team video podcast (9 mins) :

  

 Video produced by Leigh Stimolo, 2007.



And...we never forget how much fun research really can be...

I mean, where else will you get the chance to see a picture of RFP bacteria combined with the famous Edvard Munch work Scream. (See left)

And where else can you have a blast "whashing" DNA? (See video)

Finally, a special thanks goes to MIT's team page, along with the rest of the iGEM team for our page formatting.

Hope you enjoy the page,

-Kevin }