CH391L/S13/Assignments

For Monday, January 28th, 2013

• Register to use the OpenWetWare Wiki.
• Learn how to edit pages.
• Play around in the WIki sandbox.
• Add your name to the CH391L Users page.
• Leave at least one comment on the Talk page or make at least one addition to either Introduction to Synthetic Biology or Ethics of synthetic biology.
• Add at least one event to the "Timeline of Synthetic Biology" in the Introduction to Synthetic Biology with a link or citation.
• Read articles for discussion:
  • Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline
  • The promise and perils of synthetic biology

New Topics:

• Ethics of synthetic biology (Neil)
• DIY Biology Movement (John)
• BioBricks and the iGEM registry (Tyler)

For Monday, February 4th, 2013

Topic Updates

• Ethics of synthetic biology [1]
• DIY Biology[2]
• BioBricks and the iGEM registry [3]

Papers for Discussion

1. Playing God in Frankenstein's Footsteps: Synthetic Biology and the Meaning of Life

   For Bioethics

3. Kelly JR, Rubin AJ, Davis JH, Ajo-Franklin CM, Cumbers J, Czar MJ, de Mora K, Glieberman AL, Monie DD, and Endy D. Measuring the activity of BioBrick promoters using an in vivo reference standard. J Biol Eng. 2009 Mar 20;3:4. DOI:10.1186/1754-1611-3-4 |

   For BioBricks

4. Outlaw, hackers, victorian amateurs: diagnosing public participation in the life sciences today pdf

   For DIY Biology

New Topics

• Minimal / "clean" genomes (Evan)
• CAD for Synthetic Biology (Kevin)
• DNA Assembly: From Genes to Genomes (Gabe) [5]

For Monday, February 11th, 2013

New Topics

• Ancestral sequence reconstruction (Aurko)
• Directed protein evolution (Max)
• Functional Nucleic Acids --Alvaro E. Rodriguez M. 21:50, 27 January 2013 (EST)

For Monday, February 18th, 2013

New Topics

• Biocontainment (Thomas)
• Bioprospecting / Metagenomics (Andre)
• New Marker Genes (Ben)

For Monday, February 25th, 2013

New Topics

• Optogenetics (Sid)
• TBD (Larry)
• TBD (Kate)

For Monday, March 4th, 2013

• TBD (Jeremy)
• Biological material assembly and patterning - Belcher virus work (Marco)