User:Inge M. Thijs

General

• synthetic biology comic

Synthetic Biology News

• Synthetic biology gets ethical Nature News 12 May 2009

Teaching resources

• Imperial College Introduction to Synthetic Biology Spring 2008
• Imperial College Computer Modelling Practicals Spring 2008
• Valencia Introduction to Synthetic Biology 2008
• Berkeley course on Synthetic Biology

Software resources

• A wiki tutorial that can be very useful
• SBML
• CellDesigner

iGEM and BioBricks

• introductory resources on the iGEM competition
• iGEM tutorial
• example of an iGEM model - Imperial 2006
• wiki of Taipei 2007, interesting links
• all previous iGEM projects categorized, feel free to add

• Registry of Standard Biological Parts
• BioBricks 2008 spring distribution
• BioBricks measurement
• parts characterization

1. Voigt CA. Genetic parts to program bacteria. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2006 Oct;17(5):548-57. DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2006.09.001 |
2. Shetty RP, Endy D, and Knight TF Jr. Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts. J Biol Eng. 2008 Apr 14;2:5. DOI:10.1186/1754-1611-2-5 |

OpenWetWare

• Introductory tutorial
• OpenWetWare help pages

Original research papers and reviews

1. Gardner TS, Cantor CR, and Collins JJ. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):339-42. DOI:10.1038/35002131 |
2. Elowitz MB and Leibler S. A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):335-8. DOI:10.1038/35002125 |
3. Basu S, Gerchman Y, Collins CH, Arnold FH, and Weiss R. A synthetic multicellular system for programmed pattern formation. Nature. 2005 Apr 28;434(7037):1130-4. DOI:10.1038/nature03461 |
4. Anderson JC, Voigt CA, and Arkin AP. Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate. Mol Syst Biol. 2007;3:133. DOI:10.1038/msb4100173 |
5. Anderson JC, Clarke EJ, Arkin AP, and Voigt CA. Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria. J Mol Biol. 2006 Jan 27;355(4):619-27. DOI:10.1016/j.jmb.2005.10.076 |
6. Shetty RP, Endy D, and Knight TF Jr. Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts. J Biol Eng. 2008 Apr 14;2:5. DOI:10.1186/1754-1611-2-5 |
7. Endy D. Foundations for engineering biology. Nature. 2005 Nov 24;438(7067):449-53. DOI:10.1038/nature04342 |

Contact Info

Inge M. Thijs (an artistic interpretation)

• Inge M. Thijs
• K.U.Leuven - Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
• Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics
• Kasteelpark Arenberg 20
• 3001 Leuven, Belgium
• Email me through OpenWetWare