Synthetic Biology
Making life better, one part at a time.
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, the Knight Lab, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the 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
Standard E. coli Strain for BioBricks
BioBrick Parts for Plasmid Engineering
Docs
- Technical Report 0: Idempotent Vector Design for Standard Assembly of BioBricks
- Technical Report 1: Biocomp Plasmid Distribution 1.00 of Standard Biobrick Components
- Draft 1: Regulatory Schemes in Biological Networks to Produce Desired Response and Stability. The genetic inverter: A computational case study
- Draft 2: Recombineering: Homologous Recombination-Mediated DNA Engineering in E. coli
- Draft 3: Electrical Models for Genetic Regulatory Elements
- Draft 4: Plasmid Engineering (pdf) (doc)
- A set of presentation slides from various talks by Drew Endy, many of which focus on the engineering of biology.
Conferences
The First International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
Synthetic Biology 2.0 is scheduled for May 20-22, 2006 at UC Berkeley. Exact schedule and registration details still to be announced.
News
- MIT, the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. announce a new study of the societal implications of synthetic genomics. Press releases: MIT, CSIS and Venter Institute.
- Synthetic Genomics, Inc. has been launched to develop new approaches to biological energy.
- Check out taqdot: News for the open source and synthetic biology community
- Codon Devices is founded to "pioneer the emerging field of synthetic biology."
- Old news links
