Imperial College/Courses/Fall2008/Synthetic Biology (MRes class)

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)

1. Canton B, Labno A, and Endy D. . pmid:18612302. PubMed HubMed [paper1]
2. Arkin A. . pmid:18612298. PubMed HubMed [paper2]
3. Lucks JB, Qi L, Whitaker WR, and Arkin AP. . pmid:18983935. PubMed HubMed [paper3]
4. Beisel CL, Bayer TS, Hoff KG, and Smolke CD. . pmid:18956013. PubMed HubMed [paper4]

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)

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the OpenWetWare folks for providing such an amazing Open Science platform (Courses, Protocols, Resources ...)