IGEM:China workshop/lecture

The lecture titles
Christina The first talk "Engineering RNA Devices as Communication and Control Systems" The second talk "Building an Infrastructure for Metabolic Engineering"	Drew Endy The first talk "Synthetic Biology, A System for Engineering Biology" The second talk "Building A Constructive Culture, The Ethics of Synthetic Biology"
The reading materials Please preview reading marerials before the lectures.
Christina (1) Bayer TS, Smolke CD. 2005. Programmable, ligand-controlled riboregulators of eukaryotic gene expression. /Nat. Biotech./ 23:337-343. (2) Pfleger BF, Pitera DJ, Smolke CD, Keasling JD. 2006. Combinatorial engineering of intergenic regions in operons tunes expression of multiple genes. /Nat. Biotech. /24: 1027-1032. (3) Win MN, Klein JS, Smolke CD. 2006. RNA aptamers to the benzylisoquinoline alkaloid codeine and the rapid characterization of their binding properties using surface plasmon resonance. /Nuc. Acids Res./ 34: 5670-82/./ (4) Smolke CD, Martin VJJ, Keasling JD. 2001. Controlling the metabolic flux through the carotenoid pathway using directed mRNA processing and stabilization. /Met. Eng./ 3: 313-321.	Drew Endy (1) Foundations for engineering biology [PDF] (2) Adventures in synthetic biology [PDF] (3) Refactoring bacteriophage T7 [PDF] (4) Building a fab for biology [PDF]