Brown Synthetic Biology

BIOL 1940T (CRN 14871) Synthetic Biological Systems

Mondays and Wednesdays 3.30pm - 5.00pm, CIT Room 227

• Taught by interdisciplinary faculty
• Opportunity for individual or group practical projects in Spring 2008.
• Download course outline
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• Open to juniors or seniors with relevant backgrounds in one of the key areas, or with instructors permission.

Assessment:

• Synthetic Biological System 1: Part Design (Group project)
• Synthetic Biological System 1: System Design (Individual project)
• Primary literature class presentation
• Synthetic society paper, ethics and impacts
• Computer modeling labs/problem sets.

       faculty  	 Topic   	                                                Department / area
1 	Gary Wessel 	 Overview and Bioethics 	                                MCB
2 	Wolfgang Peti    Protein engineering 1	                                        MPPB
3 	Marc Johnson 	 Bioenergy 	                                                MCB
4 	Tayhas Palmore   Principles of Engineering                                      Biomedical Engineering
5 	Tom Webster 	 Nanotechnology 	                                        Biomedical Engineering
6 	Jay Tang 	 Microbial forces 	                                        Physics
7 	Nicola Neretti 	 Deterministic models 	                                        Physics
8 	Alex Brodsky 	 Techniques in synthetic biology 1                              MCB
9 	Jeff Morgan      Techniques in synthetic biology 2                              MPPB
10 	Jim Head         Exploring Planetary Environments: Earth and the Solar System   Geology
11 	Suzanne Sindi 	 Stochastic Modeling 	                                        Applied Mathematics
12 	Woods Hole 	 Exploring Microbiology 	 
13 	Jason Sello  	 Organic Synthesis 	                                        Chemistry
14 	tbc              Metabolic Engineering 	                                        Chemistry
15 	Sherief Reda 	 Engineering systems 	                                        Electronic Engineering
16     John Savage      Nanocomputing                                                  Computer Science
17     Anubhav Tripathi Microfluidics                                                  Microfluidics
18     Karen Haberstroh Principles of Engineering 2                                    Biomedical Engineering
19     Hasan Demirci    Protein engineering 2	                                        MCB
20     Jamie Gagnon     Techniques in synthetic biology 3                              MCB

       The course outline will be finalized over the summer