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Brown iGEM team

We are looking for team funding for students to take part in the competition over the summer.

Tasks to do

-can somebody add the departments to our faculty sponsors please? you can google for these.
-can somebody link all the students to their usernames please?
-please sign up to write up a section.

Who's doing what

John - writing 2 parts of app.
Brendan - formatting application at end. please start asap, so we can insert the text when finished.
Victoria - overviewing the draft proposal and checking it runs together.
Megan - BDH link

Application

Brown iGEM Team 2006
International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition

'Introduction' ---Johncumbers 19:37, 8 March 2006 (EST)john, work in progress
This summer a cross-disciplinary team of Brown students will enter the MIT based iGEM competition. The challenge is to design and implement a genetically engineered machine.

A new field; Synthetic Biology ---Johncumbers 19:37, 8 March 2006 (EST)john, work in progress

Science is constantly in a state of flux and the lines between biology, math, physics and chemistry are continually being redrawn. In the last decade, the life sciences revolution has continued to grow, but a new type of biology is on the horizon, a biology that not only understands how DNA holds the information to construct biological machines; but a biology that calls on other fields and is able to model, design and synthesize these machines from A’s C’s T’s and G’s. This is the new field of Synthetic Biology.

Where engineering meets biology "Can simple biological systems be built from standard, interchangeable parts and operated in living cells? Or, is biology simply too complicated to be engineered in this way?(1)"

What is iGEM, history

Logistics

Faculty mentoring team Gary Wessel - Professor of Biology
Marc Tatar - Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Faculty support David Targan - Dean for Science Programs
Karen Marie Haberstroh - Assistant Professor of Engineering
Jim Valles - Professor of Physics
Sorin Istrail - Professor of Computer Science
Marjorie Thompson - Associate Dean of Biological Sciences

Potential support (TBC) Nicola Neretti
Alex Brodsky

Why should Brown sponsor the team?


What funding do we request?
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'References' 1) http://icampus.mit.edu/projects/iGem.shtml
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Members

John Cumbers - Graduate Student Computational Biology
Annie Gao anniegao
Brendan Hickey brendanhickey
Elaine Tran elainetran
Elena Helman elenahelman
Jamie Lemon jamielemon - Undergraduate Student Biology
Julia Heneghan juliaheneghan
Julie Spector juliespector
Kara Neergaard karaneergaard
Megan Schmidt meganschmidt
Nicholas Halden nicholashalden
Peter Goldstein - Undergraduate Student Computational Biology
Peter Rosenthal peterrosenthal
Rahul Nene rahulnene
Smita Gupta smitagupta
Victoria Lattanzi victorialattanzi


Links

iGEM overview
iGEM Wiki

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