CHE.496/2008/Assignments
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Assignment 1: Synthetic biology overview
- Extreme genetic engineering: An introduction to synthetic biology
- Intelligent Life
- Synthetic Life
- Engineering Life: Building a FAB for biology
Assignment 2: Foundational technologies
- Foundations for engineering biology
- A partnership between biology and engineering
- Synthetic biology - putting engineering into biology
Assignment 3: Engineering principles
- Synthetic biology: New engineering rules for an emerging discipline
Assignment 4: Practical applications
- Advances in synthetic biology: on the path from prototypes to applications
- Molecular switches for cellular sensors
Assignment 5: Biobricks and design overview
- Idempotent vector design for standard assembly of biobricks
- Designing biological systems
- Biology by design: Reduction and synthesis of cellular components and behavior
Assignment 6: Genetic programming, Gene Designer, codon optimization
- Genetic parts to program bacteria
- Codon bias and heterologous protein expression
- Programming and engineering biological networks
- Modular approaches to expanding the functions of living matter
- Synthetic biology: New engineering rules for an emerging discipline
- Programming and engineering biological networks
- Fast, cheap and somewhat in control
Assignment 7: Synthetic genes, biological machines, and minimal genomes
- Global transposon mutagenesis and a minimal mycoplasma genome
Assignment 8: Case studies in synthetic biology
- Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria
- Production of isoprenoid pharmaceuticals by engineered microbes
Assignment 9: Final project
Assignment 10: Genetic circuit engineering
- A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators
- Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli
- Engineered gene circuits
Assignment 11: Metabolic pathway engineering
Assignment 12: Protein engineering
Assignment 13: Bioinformatics and online databases
Assignment 14: Systems biology and the omic sciences
Assignment 15: Mathematical biology
Assignment 16: Genome-scale metabolic models
Assignment 17: Modeling genetic regulatory networks
Assignment 18: Systems biotechnology and CellDesigner
Assignment 19: Biological safety and security
- DNA synthesis and biological security
Assignment 20: Bioethics
- The promises and perils of synthetic biology
- Synthetic biology: Navigating the challenges ahead
Assignment 21: Ownership and sharing
Assignment 22: Bio-business
- Economics of synthetic biology
- Synthetic biology: Caught between property rights, the public domain, & the commons