Harvard:Synthetic Biology Nanocourse/2007
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Intellectual Unit: Experimental Tools for Biological Discovery
Synthetic Biology: Cellular and Molecular Engineering
Instructors
- Nanocourse Director: Pamela Silver (talk)
- Nanocourse Lecturers: George Church (talk), William Shih (talk), and Pamela Silver (talk)
Course Description
Synthetic biology explores the design rules for building artificial behavior of biomolecular systems through cycles of construction and comparison of intended versus observed behaviors. The ability to synthesize biomimetic behavior is an important benchmark for biological understanding. This course will introduce strategies for
engineering cellular and molecular systems and will explore current and future applications for synthetic biology approaches.
Meeting Times
- First Meeting: Monday, 2007 October 22nd, 1:30-4:30pm
- Location: Goldenson 122 (on the HMS quad)
- Second Meeting: Friday, 2007 October 26th, 12-2pm
- Location: TBD
Course Project
- For those enrolled in the nanocourse, the course project will be a short proposal (800–1000 words plus figures) describing a synthetic biology project that can be completed by a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow in three years or less. The proposals, in Adobe PDF form, must be posted on this wiki page by noon on Thursday, 2007 October 25.
- Registered students and instructors will read the proposals and meet on Friday, 2007 October 26 at noon to critique the proposals (see above).
- To see some potential project ideas, please browse through the project and brainstorming pages of former iGEM teams. If you decide to adopt one of those ideas, you need to propose a significant improvement or alteration that represents value added to the original idea. Be sure to credit the sources for your inspirations. Here are some example links (everyone, please feel free to add more or to reorganize):