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# Synthetic Biology | # Synthetic Biology | ||
## Standards - Establishing standards for biological parts to ensure interoperability and allow for construction of complex systems | ## Standards - Establishing standards for biological parts to ensure interoperability and allow for construction of complex systems | ||
## Biocircuits - Implementing wetware abstraction layers to allow creation of devices for cellular computation and communications | |||
## Epigenetics - Manipulating chromatin structures with histone and DNA modifications as a form of biological software programming | ## Epigenetics - Manipulating chromatin structures with histone and DNA modifications as a form of biological software programming | ||
## | ## Delivery Systems - Making viruses or other vectors for targeted delivery of DNA parts into an established host genome | ||
# Bioengineering | # Bioengineering | ||
## Immunology - Defining the theoretical framework and designing components for an artificial immune system | ## Immunology - Defining the theoretical framework and designing components for an artificial immune system |
Revision as of 11:57, 8 April 2008
Contact Info
- Dileep D. Monie
- Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Email me through OpenWetWare
I work in the Wilmer Eye Institute at the JHU School of Medicine. I learned about OpenWetWare from the 24C3 Endy lecture, and I've joined because I am interested in contributing to the BBF Technical Standards.
Research Interests
- Synthetic Biology
- Standards - Establishing standards for biological parts to ensure interoperability and allow for construction of complex systems
- Biocircuits - Implementing wetware abstraction layers to allow creation of devices for cellular computation and communications
- Epigenetics - Manipulating chromatin structures with histone and DNA modifications as a form of biological software programming
- Delivery Systems - Making viruses or other vectors for targeted delivery of DNA parts into an established host genome
- Bioengineering
- Immunology - Defining the theoretical framework and designing components for an artificial immune system
- Drug Discovery - Designing cell reporter systems to detect biomolecule interactions and perturbations in signal transduction
- Astrobiology - Engineering energy pathways and lifeforms sustainable in extreme environments
- Biocomputing - Integrating logic biocircuits on a very large scale in single cell and multicellular systems
- Biosecurity and Biosafety
- Policy - Balancing the needs of an open hacker community with access restrictions
- Testing and Certification - Establishing an "Underwriters Laboratories" for developing standards and test procedures for biosafety
- Countermeasures - Designing fail-safe mechanisms to mitigate potential synthetic biology abuses
Current Projects
- BBF Technical Standards Promoter Measurement Test