Imperial College/Courses/Fall2008/Synthetic Biology (MRes class)
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Fall 2008 Instructor: Vincent Rouilly Welcome! |
Announcements
- The lecture for the Synthetic Biology MRes will take place on Tuesday 2nd December between 10.00am-12.00pm, in Room B213, Biochemistry Building.
- Registration to OpenWetWare required ( join OWW ).
- You can find the latest changes to the wiki at Recent changes for the course
Scope of the lecture
Part I: The Synthetic Biology landscape
- What are the current biotechnologies around ?
- Driving concepts and technologies in Synthetic Biology.
- Current Synthetic Biology activities (how to get involved?).
Part II: Journal club (teams of 2)
- Canton B, Labno A, and Endy D. Refinement and standardization of synthetic biological parts and devices. Nat Biotechnol. 2008 Jul;26(7):787-93. DOI:10.1038/nbt1413 |
- Arkin A. Setting the standard in synthetic biology. Nat Biotechnol. 2008 Jul;26(7):771-4. DOI:10.1038/nbt0708-771 |
- Lucks JB, Qi L, Whitaker WR, and Arkin AP. Toward scalable parts families for predictable design of biological circuits. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2008 Dec;11(6):567-73. DOI:10.1016/j.mib.2008.10.002 |
- Beisel CL, Bayer TS, Hoff KG, and Smolke CD. Model-guided design of ligand-regulated RNAi for programmable control of gene expression. Mol Syst Biol. 2008;4:224. DOI:10.1038/msb.2008.62 |
Register here to present one of the papers during the class (15-20min presentation with slides between 2 people).
- Team 1 (Chris / Tom): Arkin A. Setting the standard in synthetic biology. Nat Biotechnol 2008 Jul; 26(7) 771-4. doi:10.1038/nbt0708-771 pmid:18612298.
- Team 2 (Name 1 / Name 2): ...specify paper...
Part III: Case study (teams of 2)
- Congratulations ! You have just won a 3 year seed funding to produce some Synthetic Biology work.
- You have unlimited access to a wet lab and dry lab
- What do you do next ? How do you do it ? What do you plan to deliver ? What will be your contribution to Synthetic Biology ?
Register here your team:
- Team 1 (Name 1 / Name 2)
- Team 2 (Name 1 / Name 2)