Virginia United/2010/Readings

Synthetic Biology Overview

1. Building outside the box: iGEM and the BioBricks Foundation and Five hard truths for synthetic biology
2. Engineering microbes with synthetic biology frameworks
3. Toward scalable parts families for predictable design of biological circuits
4. Synthetic biology: understanding biological design from synthetic circuits
5. Next-generation synthetic gene networks
6. Genome engineering
7. Gene synthesis demystified

Foundational and Fundamental Synthetic Biology

1. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli
2. A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators
3. A modular and extensible RNA-based gene-regulatory platform for engineering cellular function
4. Synthesis of orthogonal transcription-translation networks
5. Refinement and standardization of synthetic biological parts and devices
6. Setting the standard in synthetic biology
7. Diversity-based model-guided construction of synthetic gene networks with predicted functions
8. Accurate prediction of gene feedback circuit behavior from component properties

Advanced and Applied Synthetic Biology

1. Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria
2. Synthetic gene networks that count
3. A synchronized quorum of genetic clocks ????
4. Automated design of synthetic ribosome binding sites to control protein expression
5. Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution
6. Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux
7. Engineering the Salmonella type III secretion system to export spider silk monomers