Synthetic Biology
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About Us
This site is sponsored & maintained by members of the MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group. Please see our FAQ if you you questions about what we do.
Current members are associated with the Endy Lab, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the http://web.mit.edu/biology Department of Biology], the Biological Engineering Division, and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT.
MIT folks can add/remove themselves to the "synthbio" mailing list here.
Classes/Competitions
iGEM competitions site -- 2005 iGEM MIT team
2004 Synthetic Biology Competition
IAP 2003 and IAP 2004 projects
Projects
Registry of Standard Biological Parts
Conferences
The First International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
People
News
- 7/8/04: Writing DNA: First Synthetic Biology Conference Held at MIT
- 7/8/04: Experts worry that synthetic biology may spawn biohackers and Slashdot article.
- 6/15/04: Conference kicks off synthetic bio revolution
- 6/11/04: BioBricks to help reverse-engineer life
- 4/26/04: Synthetic Life: article in Scientific American and discussion on Slashdot.
- 1/9/04: Microbes made to order: Science, 303(5655):158-161, January 2004.
- 7/9/03: The First Synthetic Biology Conference will take place June 2004 at MIT. Go to the conference page for more information.
- 4/29/03: Story on Slashdot on Digital DNA circuits with link to BioBricks.
- 4/15/03: Planning and assembly of parts from IAP is beginning.
- 2/28/03: All parts have been shipped.
- 2/15/03: The IAP class is finished! See the group projects. The designs are being reviewed and sequences will be shipped soon.
- 2/13/03: MIT News article about IAP class
- 11/20/02: Check out our IAP class on engineering blinkers.
- 11/01/02: We have the sequence for Mesoplasma florum!
