SynBERC:MIT/Calendar/2007-11-14

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Anyone in the synthetic biology community is welcome to attend.

Wednesday November 14, 2007 at 11:00am EST

32-D463, MIT

Topic of discussion

Eli Groban - Engineering a controllable switch that guides chemotaxis in E. coli.

Groban ES, Clark RM, Eames MA, Clarke EJ, and Voigt CA.

We engineered a strain of E. coli to sense its environment and choose to chemotax towards one of two stimuli. The decision-making behavior is encoded by a genetic switch that controls the expression of two orthogonal chemonavigation systems. In the true spirit of SynBERC, we produced this strain by introducing multiple components both from the parts registry and from various biology labs across the country into a newly created chassis. Moreover, we will make both the chassis and the parts we created available for all SynBERC members and other research scientists.

Visit schedule

• 12pm - Jason
• 1pm - Samantha, Endy lab tour
• 2pm - Randy
• 3pm - Prather Lab tour (Neidi & Collin)
• 4pm -
• 7:30pm - dinner with a few SynBERC students

TK lab by Reshma - whichever time slot is open

Endy lab by Jason and Samantha - before 4pm