CH391L/S13/Assignments
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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:
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
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For Bioethics
- 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
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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)
- Riboswitches (Kate)
For Monday, March 4th, 2013
- TBD (Jeremy)
- Biological material assembly and patterning - Belcher virus work (Marco)
