Brown:Journal club:Synthetic biology journal club
From 2006.igem.org
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Tuesday nights, 6-7pm
Location: | Technology House Lounge, Brown campus, please call 401-5238190 if you are unable to enter the building.
2nd May
Sri Kosuri from MIT to come and talk about his paper from the previous week.
25th April
Refactoring bacteriophage T7 Leon Y Chan1,a, Sriram Kosuri2,a and Drew Endy2
18th April
Kara and Jesse
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v23/n3/abs/nbt1069.html
Programmable ligand-controlled riboregulators of eukaryotic gene expression.
Bayer TS, Smolke CD.
11th April
Annie and Angela will present the article: "Design of artificial cell–cell communication using gene and metabolic networks".
The paper can be found at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/101/8/2299
Thomas Bulter, Sun-Gu Lee, Wilson WaiChun Wong, Eileen Fung, Michael R. Conner, and James C. Liao. 2004. Design of artificial cell-cell communication using gene and metabolic networks. PNAS. 101(8): 2299-2304. (Quorum sensor using acetate signal).
4th April
Brendan and Peter will be presenting the article entitled "Engineering a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for production of terpenoids".
Vincent J J Martin, Douglas J Pitera1, Sydnor T Withers1, Jack D Newman & Jay D Keasling. "Engineering a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for production of terpenoids." Nature Biotechnology 21, 796 - 802 (2003).
It can be found online at http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v21/n7/abs/nbt833.html
21st March
Megan and Victoria will present the article handed out in last meeting. Article is entitled: "Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli"
Timothy S. Gardner, Charles R. Cantor, and James J. Collins. 2000. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature. Vol. 403. 339 - 342. (Bistable gene regulatory network, toggled by transient chemical or thermal induction, to serve as cellular memory) Download the paper here
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14th March
John to give overview of last year's competition and to hand out readings Download paper here