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# Quest Speaker. 5 minutes. Jennifer Nordland. Soybean Competition | # Quest Speaker. 5 minutes. Jennifer Nordland. Soybean Competition | ||
# Frit-O-Lay Visit. 10 minutes | # Frit-O-Lay Visit. 10 minutes | ||
# | # Big Picture: Cellular Engineering | ||
# '''Assignment''': | |||
Look up one of these 6 entities. Report on the who, what, where, when, and how of what these companies do. What is their status today? | |||
Biobricks Foundation (Cambridge Mass), Blue Heron Biotechnology (Bothel Washington), Amyris Biotechnologies (Emeryville, CA), Codon Devices (Cambridge, Mass), Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (Gainesville, FL), Synthetic Genomics (Rockville, Md) | |||
1 page written. | |||
5 minutes oral to the class. | |||
Due next week. | |||
==References== | ==References== |
Revision as of 13:10, 4 September 2008
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Instructor
Prof Jenna Rickus rickus@purdue.edu
Course Description
Assignments and Class Schedule
August 28th
In Class. Go over syllabus, course goals, openwetware, and software
Assignment. complete before next week.
- Create an account on Openwetware
- Read the wiki help on openwetware
- Create your own wiki page that links to this course page. Name your page "Biol295F_LASTNAME"
- Download and Install Systems Biology Workbench and Cell Designer
- Start reading NIH Stem Cell Basics
Sept 4th
In Class.
- Quest Speaker. 5 minutes. Jennifer Nordland. Soybean Competition
- Frit-O-Lay Visit. 10 minutes
- Big Picture: Cellular Engineering
- Assignment:
Look up one of these 6 entities. Report on the who, what, where, when, and how of what these companies do. What is their status today?
Biobricks Foundation (Cambridge Mass), Blue Heron Biotechnology (Bothel Washington), Amyris Biotechnologies (Emeryville, CA), Codon Devices (Cambridge, Mass), Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (Gainesville, FL), Synthetic Genomics (Rockville, Md)
1 page written. 5 minutes oral to the class.
Due next week.
References
Stem Cell Biology
Policy and Ethics
- U.S. Policy on Use of Stem Cells. NIH link
- Article arguing for a code of ethics for Biological Engineers. IBE code of ethics
Useful Links
Wikipedia's Tutorial on Editing Wiki's
Web of Science- for literature review
PubMed - for literature review
Entrez - quick keyword based search across literature, protein, gene, etc databases simultaneously
link to Genbank - "GenBank® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences"
Class Discussion Board
post any comments, questions etc. here