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|'''Discussion leader(s)'''
|'''Discussion leader(s)'''
|'''Discussion paper(s)'''
|'''Discussion paper I'''
|'''Related paper(s) to enjoy'''
|'''Discussion or Related paper II'''
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| <b>Preview of 20.385</b>
| <b>Preview of 20.385</b>
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| [[Natalie Kuldell]]<br>[[Media:20.385(S15) Cro2activator.pdf| ppt is here]]
| [[Natalie Kuldell]]<br>[[Media:20.385(S15) Cro2activator.pdf| ppt is here]]
| '''Turning lambda Cro into a transcriptional activator'''<br>Bushman FD, Ptashne M.''Cell.'' (1988) Jul 15;54(2):191-7.<br>[[PMID: 2968842]]<br>  
| '''Turning lambda Cro into a transcriptional activator'''<br>Bushman FD, Ptashne M.''Cell.'' (1988) Jul 15;54(2):191-7.<br>[[PMID: 2968842]]<br>  
| '''Synthetic biology devices as tools for metabolic engineering''' <br>Shiue E, Prather K. ''Biochemical Engineering Journal'' (2012) 65:82–89<br>[[doi:10.1016/j.bej.2012.04.006]]
|'''Advances and current limitations in transcript-level control of gene expression'''<br> Leavitt JM, Alper HS. ''Curr Opin Biotechnol.'' (2015) Jan 2;34C:98-104. [[doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.12.015.]] Review [[Media:Leavitt-Advances and Limitations Gene Expression-Current Opinion-2015.pdf| pdf]]
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|'''Transcription-based Logic Devices'''<br>
|'''Transcription-based Logic Devices'''<br>
| Week 3: <br>Wed Feb 18   
| Week 3: <br>Wed Feb 18   
|  <br>  
Heejo and Tushar<br> [[Media:20.385 Week 3.pdf| ppt is here]]
|'''Rapid engineering of versatile molecular logic gates using heterologous genetic transcriptional modules'''<br>Baojun Wang and Martin Buck. ''Chem. Commun.'' (2014) 50: 11642-11644 [[DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05264A ]]
|'''Genetic programs constructed from layered logic gates in single cells'''<br>  Moon TS, Lou C, Tamsir A, Stanton BC, Voigt CA ''Nature'' (2012) 491: 249–253 <br>[[doi:10.1038/nature11516]]
|'''Genetic programs constructed from layered logic gates in single cells'''<br>  Moon TS, Lou C, Tamsir A, Stanton BC, Voigt CA ''Nature'' (2012) 491: 249–253 <br>[[doi:10.1038/nature11516]]
|'''Engineering modular and orthogonal genetic logic gates for robust digital-like synthetic biology '''<br> Wang B, et al. ''Nat. Commun.'' (2011) 2 : 508 <br>[[doi: 10.1038/ncomms1516]]
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| ''' DNA fine-tuning + evolution '''<br>  
| ''' DNA fine-tuning + evolution '''<br>  
| Week 4:<br> Wed Feb 25
| Week 4:<br> Wed Feb 25
| <br>  
| Gabi and Ellie<br>[[Media:20.385 Week 4.pdf| ppt is here]]
|'''Rational Diversification of a Promoter Providing Fine-Tuned Expression and Orthogonal Regulation for Synthetic Biology'''<br> Blount BA, Weenink T, Vasylechko S, Ellis T.<br>PLoS ONE (2012) 7(3): e33279.<br> [[doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033279]]
|'''Evolution-guided optimization of biosynthetic pathways'''<br>Raman S, Rogers JK, Taylor ND, Church GM.''Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.'' (2014) Dec 16;111(50):17803-8. [[doi: 10.1073/pnas.1409523111]]
|'''Directed evolution as a powerful synthetic biology tool'''<br>Cobb RE, Sun N, Zhao H. ''Methods'' (2012) Mar 23. <br>[[PMID: 22465795]] <br>
|'''Directed evolution as a powerful synthetic biology tool'''<br>Cobb RE, Sun N, Zhao H. ''Methods'' (2012) Mar 23. <br>[[PMID: 22465795]] <br>
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|'''RNA Engineering'''<br>  
|'''Top down vs. Bottom up'''<br>  
| Week 5: <br>Wed Mar 4
| Week 5: <br>Wed Mar 4
|   <br>  
|No presentations this week (response record for one or the other paper due)
| '''De novo automated design of small RNA circuits for engineering synthetic riboregulation in living cells.''' <br>Rodrigo G, Landrain TE, Jaramillo A. ''PNAS''(2012) 109(38):15271-6.<br> [[PMID: 22949707]]
|'''Five hard truths for synthetic biology'''<br> Kwok R. ''Nature''(2010) 463(7279):288-90.<br>[[doi: 10.1038/463288a]]
|'''Bottom-up engineering of biological systems through standard bricks: a modularity study on basic parts and devices''' <br>Pasotti L, Politi N, Zucca S, Cusella De Angelis MG, Magni P. ''PLoS One'' (2012) 7(7):e39407. [[doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039407]]
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| '''RNA Engineering'''<br>
| Week 6:<br> <font color = blue> Wed Mar 11</font color> <br>day of 3 ideas presentations
| Marianne and Jenn <br> [[Media: Week6 20.385.pdf| ppt is here]]
|'''Protein-responsive ribozyme switches in eukaryotic cells.''' Kennedy AB, Vowles JV, d'Espaux L, Smolke CD.''Nucleic Acids Res.'' (2014) Oct 29;42(19):12306-21. [[doi: 10.1093/nar/gku875]]  
| '''RNA synthetic biology''' <br>Isaacs FJ, Dwyer DJ, Collins JJ. ''Nat Biotechnol.'' (2006) 24(5):545-54. <br> [[PMID: 16680139]]
| '''RNA synthetic biology''' <br>Isaacs FJ, Dwyer DJ, Collins JJ. ''Nat Biotechnol.'' (2006) 24(5):545-54. <br> [[PMID: 16680139]]
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| '''Engineering Biology''' <br>
| '''Engineering Materials with Biology''' <br>  
| Week 6:<br> <font color = blue> Wed Mar 11</font color> <br>before 3 ideas presentations
| No presentations this week (response record for one or the other paper due)
|'''Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA'''<br> Goldman N et al.    ''Nature'' (2013)<br> [[doi:10.1038/nature11875]]
| '''A fully decompressed synthetic bacteriophage øX174 genome assembled and archived in yeast''' <br>Jaschke PR et al. ''Virology''(2012)434(2):278-84. <br> [[doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.09.020]]
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| '''SynBio for Science''' <br>  
| Week 7:<br> Wed Mar 18  
| Week 7:<br> Wed Mar 18  
| <br>  
| Paper #1: Gabi<br> [[Media:Week 7 Presentation (Garcia).pptx |ppt is here]]
| '''Synthetic biology challenges long-held hypotheses in translation, codon bias and transcription''' <br>Forster AC. ''Biotechnol J.'' (2012) 7(7):835-45.<br> [[doi: 10.1002/biot.201200002]]
|'''Engineering living functional materials'''<br>Chen AY1, Zhong C, Lu TK.''ACS Synth Biol.'' (2015) Jan 16;4(1):8-11. [[doi: 10.1021/sb500113b]]*AND '''Synthesis and patterning of tunable multiscale materials with engineered cells''' Chen AY, Deng Z, Billings AN, Seker UO, Lu MY, Citorik RJ, Zakeri B, Lu TK.(2014) Nat Mater. 13(5):515-23. [[doi: 10.1038/nmat3912]]
|'''Five hard truths for synthetic biology'''<br> Kwok R. ''Nature''(2010) 463(7279):288-90.<br>[[doi: 10.1038/463288a]]
|'''Programmable biofilm-based materials from engineered curli nanofibres.'''<br> Nguyen PQ, Botyanszki Z, Tay PK, Joshi NS.''Nat Commun.'' (2014) Sep 17;5:4945. [[doi: 10.1038/ncomms5945.]]
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! colspan="3" | Spring Break Mar 23-27
! colspan="3" | Spring Break Mar 23-27
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| '''DNA construction and editing technologies'''<br>  
| '''Genome editing technologies'''<br>  
| Week 8:<br> Wed Apr 1
| Week 8:<br> Wed Apr 1
| <br>  
| Paper #2: Jenn<br> [[Media:20.385CRISPRPresentation.pptx| ppt is here]]<br>[[Media:BaconCrispr 2015.pdf| also...bacon anyone?]]
| '''Knockout mice created by TALEN-mediated gene targeting.'''<br>Sung YH et al. ''Nat Biotechnol'' (2013) 31(1):23-4. <br> [[doi: 10.1038/nbt.2477]]
| '''Circular permutation of a synthetic eukaryotic chromosome with the telomerator.'''<br>Mitchell LA, Boeke JD.''Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.'' (2014) Dec 2;111(48):17003-10. [[doi: 10.1073/pnas.1414399111]]  
| '''Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems'''<br>Cong L et al. ''Science'' (2013) Jan 3. <br>[[PMID: 23287718]] <br>
| '''Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems'''<br>Cong L et al. ''Science'' (2013) Jan 3. <br>[[PMID: 23287718]] <br>
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| '''Cell Physiology''' <br>
| '''Recoded Organisms''' <br>
| Week 9:<br> <font color = blue> Wed Apr 8 </font color><br> before tech spec review  
| Week 9:<br> <font color = blue> Wed Apr 8 </font color><br> day of tech spec review  
| No presentations this week (response record for one or the other paper due)
| No presentations this week (response record for one or the other paper due)
| '''Shared control of gene expression in bacteria by transcription factors and global physiology of the cell'''<br>Berthoumieux S et al''Mol Syst Biol'' (2013) 9:634 <br> [[doi: 10.1038/msb.2012.70]]
| '''Recoded organisms engineered to depend on synthetic amino acids.''' Rovner AJ, et. al...Isaacs FJ. ''Nature'' (2015) Jan 21. [[doi: 10.1038/nature14095]]
|'''A complete mass-spectrometric map of the yeast proteome applied to quantitative trait analysis''' <br> Picotti P et al.''Nature'' (2013) Jan 20. <br> [[doi: 10.1038/nature11835]]
|'''A bacterial strain with a unique quadruplet codon specifying non-native amino acids'''<br> Chatterjee A, Lajoie MJ, Xiao H, Church GM, Schultz PG. ''Chembiochem'' (2014) Aug 18;15(12):1782-6 [[doi: 10.1002/cbic.201402104]]
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| '''Chassis''' <br>  
| '''Cell-free Synthetic Biology''' <br>  
| Week 10: <br> Wed Apr 15  
| Week 10: <br> Wed Apr 15  
| <br>  
| Paper #1: Tushar<br> [[Media:20.385 Secondpresentation 041515.pptx| ppt is here]]
|'''Towards a metabolic engineering strain "commons": An Escherichia coli platform strain for ethanol production'''<br> Woodruff LB, May BL, Warner JR, Gill RT. ''Biotechnol Bioeng'' (2013) Jan 15.<br> [[doi: 10.1002/bit.24840]]
|'''Paper-based synthetic gene networks''' <br> Pardee K, Green AA, Ferrante T, Cameron DE, DaleyKeyser A, Yin P, Collins JJ. ''Cell'' (2014) Nov 6;159(4):940-54. [[doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.004]]  
| '''Contextualizing context for synthetic biology--identifying causes of failure of synthetic biological systems''' <br> Cardinale S, Arkin AP.''Biotechnol J''(2012) 7(7):856-66. <br> [[doi: 10.1002/biot.201200085]]  
| '''Linear DNA for rapid prototyping of synthetic biological circuits in an Escherichia coli based TX-TL cell-free system'''<br> Sun ZZ1, Yeung E, Hayes CA, Noireaux V, Murray RM. ''ACS Synth Biol.'' (2014) Jun 20;3(6):387-97. [[doi: 10.1021/sb400131a]]  
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| '''Programming in the Noise'''<br>
| '''Setting Standards'''<br>
| Week 11:<br> Wed Apr 22
| Week 11:<br> Wed Apr 22
|<br>  
|Paper #1: Ellie<br> [[Media: SynbioLGDB pres.pptx| ppt is here]]
|'''Iterative plug-and-play methodology for constructing and modifying synthetic gene networks'''<br>Litcofsky KD et al. ''Nat Methods''(2012) 9(11):1077-80.<br> [[doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2205]]
|'''SynBioLGDB: a resource for experimentally validated logic gates in synthetic biology.'''<br> Wang L, et.al. Wang D.''Sci Rep.'' (2015) Jan 28;5:8090. [[doi: 10.1038/srep08090]]
|'''A sensing array of radically coupled genetic ‘biopixels’''' <br>Prindle A et al. ''Nature''(2012)481:39–44<br>[[doi:10.1038/nature10722]]
|'''Refactoring the nitrogen fixation gene cluster from Klebsiella oxytoca.'''<br> Temme K1, Zhao D, Voigt CA.''Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.'' (2012) May 1;109(18):7085-90. [[doi: 10.1073/pnas.1120788109]] (moved from week 12)
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| '''Property rights in synthetic biology'''  
| '''Methods for Metabolic Engineering'''
| Week 12:<br> Wed Apr 29
| Week 12:<br> Wed Apr 29
| <br>
| Paper #1: Heejo<br> [[Media:Week 12 Presentation Heejo Choi.pdf| ppt is here]]
|''' Synthetic biology: caught between property rights, the public domain, and the commons''' <br>Rai A, Boyle ''J. PLoS Biol.'' (2007)5(3):e58<br>[[PMID: 17355173]] <br>
|'''The case for decoupling assembly and submission standards to maintain a more flexible registry of biological parts'''<br>Alnahhas RN, Slater B, Huang Y, Mortensen C, Monk JW, Okasheh Y, Howard MD, Gottel NR, Hammerling MJ, Barrick JE.''J Biol Eng.'' (2014) Dec 1;8(1):28. [[doi: 10.1186/1754-1611-8-28]] (moved from week 11)
|'''Preparing synthetic biology for the world'''<br>Moe-Behrens GH, Davis R, Haynes KA. ''Front Microbiol'' (2013) 4:5 <br> [[doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00005]]
|'''CONSTRICTOR: constraint modification provides insight into design of biochemical networks'''<br>
Erickson KE, Gill RT, Chatterjee A. ''PLoS One'' (2014) Nov 25;9(11):e113820.[[doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113820]]  
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|'''Systems & Communities'''  
|'''Synthetic Systems at Play'''  
| Week 13:<br> Wed May 6  
| Week 13:<br> Wed May 6  
| <br>
| Paper #1: Marianne<br> [[Media:20.385SpacePresentation.pptx| ppt is here]]
|'''Engineered cell-cell communication via DNA messaging'''<br>Ortiz ME, Endy D. ''JBE'' (2012) 6(1):16. <br> [[doi: 10.1186/1754-1611-6-16]]
|'''Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions'''<br>
| ''' Autonomous bacterial localization and gene expression based on nearby cell receptor density''' <br> Wu HC et al. ''Mol Syst Biol'' (2013) 9:636.<br> [[doi: 10.1038/msb.2012.71]]
Menezes AA, Cumbers J, Hogan JA, Arkin AP.''J R Soc Interface'' (2015) Jan 6;12(102):20140715. [[doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0715]]
| '''Programmable bacteria detect and record an environmental signal in the mammalian gut'''<br>
Kotula JW, Kerns SJ, Shaket LA, Siraj L, Collins JJ, Way JC, Silver PA. ''Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.'' (2014) Apr 1;111(13):4838-43. [[doi: 10.1073/pnas.1321321111]]  
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| '''Metabolic Engineering'''  
| '''Property rights in synthetic biology'''
| Week 14: <br><font color = blue> Wed May 13 </font color><br> before final presentations
| Week 14: <br><font color = blue> Wed May 13 </font color><br> last day of class
| no presentations this week (response record only if you've missed a different discussion this term)
| no presentations this week (response record only if you've missed a different discussion this term)
| '''Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli using synthetic small regulatory RNAs''' Na D et al. ''Nat Biotechnol'' (2013) Jan 20. <br> [[doi: 10.1038/nbt.2461]]
|'''Bringing Standards to Life: Synthetic Biology Standards and Intellectual Property'''<br>AW Torrance and LJ Kahl ''Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal''(2014) 30(2)  [http://ssrn.com/abstract=2426235 link]]  
| '''Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux'''Dueber JE et al. ''Nat Biotechnol'' (2009) 27(8):753-9. <br> [[doi: 10.1038/nbt.1557]]
|''' Synthetic biology: caught between property rights, the public domain, and the commons''' <br>Rai A, Boyle ''J. PLoS Biol.'' (2007)5(3):e58<br>[[PMID: 17355173]] <br>
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Latest revision as of 14:11, 6 May 2015

20.385: Advanced Topics in Synthetic Biology

Assignments

Homework dropbox is here

Part 1: Readings

  • Paper 1 (10%)
  • Paper 2 (15%)
  • Response record (20%): your thoughts about the papers you don't present.
  • Participation in class discussions (5%): your thoughtful questions and ideas during the presentations of others

Instructions for these assignment are here

Part 2: Team Mentoring

  • Progress and Mentoring Reports (30%): one page summaries of your freshman team's work and dynamics
  • Team's project average (15%): based on the grade for the 3 major assignments submitted by your freshman team
  • Instructor Leverage (5%): discretionary adjustment by NK

Instructions for these assignments are here

Reading Schedule

Discussions will be 1 hour long during Wednesday 2-5 studio block

16-220

TOPIC DATE Discussion leader(s) Discussion paper I Discussion or Related paper II
Preview of 20.385 Week 1:
Wed Feb 4
Natalie Kuldell preview of 20.385 Factory of Life
Witze A Science News pdf

Two ‘What if' experiments
Ptashne M PMID: 15055587 pdf
Build Artificial
Brent R PMID: 15055588 pdf

Parts™ Week 2:
Wed Feb 11
Natalie Kuldell
ppt is here
Turning lambda Cro into a transcriptional activator
Bushman FD, Ptashne M.Cell. (1988) Jul 15;54(2):191-7.
PMID: 2968842
Advances and current limitations in transcript-level control of gene expression
Leavitt JM, Alper HS. Curr Opin Biotechnol. (2015) Jan 2;34C:98-104. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.12.015. Review pdf
Transcription-based Logic Devices
Week 3:
Wed Feb 18
Heejo and Tushar
ppt is here
Rapid engineering of versatile molecular logic gates using heterologous genetic transcriptional modules
Baojun Wang and Martin Buck. Chem. Commun. (2014) 50: 11642-11644 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC05264A
Genetic programs constructed from layered logic gates in single cells
Moon TS, Lou C, Tamsir A, Stanton BC, Voigt CA Nature (2012) 491: 249–253
doi:10.1038/nature11516
DNA fine-tuning + evolution
Week 4:
Wed Feb 25
Gabi and Ellie
ppt is here
Evolution-guided optimization of biosynthetic pathways
Raman S, Rogers JK, Taylor ND, Church GM.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2014) Dec 16;111(50):17803-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1409523111
Directed evolution as a powerful synthetic biology tool
Cobb RE, Sun N, Zhao H. Methods (2012) Mar 23.
PMID: 22465795
Top down vs. Bottom up
Week 5:
Wed Mar 4
No presentations this week (response record for one or the other paper due) Five hard truths for synthetic biology
Kwok R. Nature(2010) 463(7279):288-90.
doi: 10.1038/463288a
Bottom-up engineering of biological systems through standard bricks: a modularity study on basic parts and devices
Pasotti L, Politi N, Zucca S, Cusella De Angelis MG, Magni P. PLoS One (2012) 7(7):e39407. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039407
RNA Engineering
Week 6:
Wed Mar 11
day of 3 ideas presentations
Marianne and Jenn
ppt is here
Protein-responsive ribozyme switches in eukaryotic cells. Kennedy AB, Vowles JV, d'Espaux L, Smolke CD.Nucleic Acids Res. (2014) Oct 29;42(19):12306-21. doi: 10.1093/nar/gku875 RNA synthetic biology
Isaacs FJ, Dwyer DJ, Collins JJ. Nat Biotechnol. (2006) 24(5):545-54.
PMID: 16680139
Engineering Materials with Biology
Week 7:
Wed Mar 18
Paper #1: Gabi
ppt is here
Engineering living functional materials
Chen AY1, Zhong C, Lu TK.ACS Synth Biol. (2015) Jan 16;4(1):8-11. doi: 10.1021/sb500113b*AND Synthesis and patterning of tunable multiscale materials with engineered cells Chen AY, Deng Z, Billings AN, Seker UO, Lu MY, Citorik RJ, Zakeri B, Lu TK.(2014) Nat Mater. 13(5):515-23. doi: 10.1038/nmat3912
Programmable biofilm-based materials from engineered curli nanofibres.
Nguyen PQ, Botyanszki Z, Tay PK, Joshi NS.Nat Commun. (2014) Sep 17;5:4945. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5945.
Spring Break Mar 23-27 No class all week
Genome editing technologies
Week 8:
Wed Apr 1
Paper #2: Jenn
ppt is here
also...bacon anyone?
Circular permutation of a synthetic eukaryotic chromosome with the telomerator.
Mitchell LA, Boeke JD.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2014) Dec 2;111(48):17003-10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1414399111
Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems
Cong L et al. Science (2013) Jan 3.
PMID: 23287718
Recoded Organisms
Week 9:
Wed Apr 8
day of tech spec review
No presentations this week (response record for one or the other paper due) Recoded organisms engineered to depend on synthetic amino acids. Rovner AJ, et. al...Isaacs FJ. Nature (2015) Jan 21. doi: 10.1038/nature14095 A bacterial strain with a unique quadruplet codon specifying non-native amino acids
Chatterjee A, Lajoie MJ, Xiao H, Church GM, Schultz PG. Chembiochem (2014) Aug 18;15(12):1782-6 doi: 10.1002/cbic.201402104
Cell-free Synthetic Biology
Week 10:
Wed Apr 15
Paper #1: Tushar
ppt is here
Paper-based synthetic gene networks
Pardee K, Green AA, Ferrante T, Cameron DE, DaleyKeyser A, Yin P, Collins JJ. Cell (2014) Nov 6;159(4):940-54. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.004
Linear DNA for rapid prototyping of synthetic biological circuits in an Escherichia coli based TX-TL cell-free system
Sun ZZ1, Yeung E, Hayes CA, Noireaux V, Murray RM. ACS Synth Biol. (2014) Jun 20;3(6):387-97. doi: 10.1021/sb400131a
Setting Standards
Week 11:
Wed Apr 22
Paper #1: Ellie
ppt is here
SynBioLGDB: a resource for experimentally validated logic gates in synthetic biology.
Wang L, et.al. Wang D.Sci Rep. (2015) Jan 28;5:8090. doi: 10.1038/srep08090
Refactoring the nitrogen fixation gene cluster from Klebsiella oxytoca.
Temme K1, Zhao D, Voigt CA.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2012) May 1;109(18):7085-90. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1120788109 (moved from week 12)
Methods for Metabolic Engineering Week 12:
Wed Apr 29
Paper #1: Heejo
ppt is here
The case for decoupling assembly and submission standards to maintain a more flexible registry of biological parts
Alnahhas RN, Slater B, Huang Y, Mortensen C, Monk JW, Okasheh Y, Howard MD, Gottel NR, Hammerling MJ, Barrick JE.J Biol Eng. (2014) Dec 1;8(1):28. doi: 10.1186/1754-1611-8-28 (moved from week 11)
CONSTRICTOR: constraint modification provides insight into design of biochemical networks

Erickson KE, Gill RT, Chatterjee A. PLoS One (2014) Nov 25;9(11):e113820.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113820

Synthetic Systems at Play Week 13:
Wed May 6
Paper #1: Marianne
ppt is here
Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions

Menezes AA, Cumbers J, Hogan JA, Arkin AP.J R Soc Interface (2015) Jan 6;12(102):20140715. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0715

Programmable bacteria detect and record an environmental signal in the mammalian gut

Kotula JW, Kerns SJ, Shaket LA, Siraj L, Collins JJ, Way JC, Silver PA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2014) Apr 1;111(13):4838-43. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1321321111

Property rights in synthetic biology Week 14:
Wed May 13
last day of class
no presentations this week (response record only if you've missed a different discussion this term) Bringing Standards to Life: Synthetic Biology Standards and Intellectual Property
AW Torrance and LJ Kahl Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal(2014) 30(2) link]
Synthetic biology: caught between property rights, the public domain, and the commons
Rai A, Boyle J. PLoS Biol. (2007)5(3):e58
PMID: 17355173