Freiburg University 2006
From 2006.igem.org
This term was invented by Martin Schneider on the Rule 110 Winter Workshop in 2004 [1]. We play without rules. We discover the rules that govern life, the universe and everything to exploit these rules and to create Artificial Life. Our short-time aim is the trip to Boston in November 2006 to take a prize in the iGEM.
The Freiburg Team (well, at least half of it...) from left to right: Irina Petrova, Andrei Kouznetsov, Daniel Hautzinger.
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The Team
Students
iGEM instructor
Faculty/staff
The project: DNA Folding
Basic Idea
Abstract
The idea is to design a strand of DNA such that it wraps into some meaningful shape. There are three different stages for this project: First, the DNA should fold into a two-dimensional rectangular sheet. Secondly, this sheet should wrap itself up into the shape of a short pipe. And last, these little pipes should hook themselves up to each other such that they form one single long pipe.
Scetches - Pipes
The DNA sequence for the Pipes design can be found here.
Application: Barbie Nanoatelier
Once the process of DNA folding into 3D-structures is understood, shapes can be chosen arbitrarily. The idea of the Barbie Nanoatelier is that the DNA should wrap into a 3D-TShirt, 3D-Pants, etc.
Scetches - TShirt
Scetches - Bluse
The DNA sequence for the Bluse design can be found here.
GEM Freiburg
Club
SB Preliminary
- DNA plug-and-play platform 24.05.06 27.06.06
- Very Large-Scale Integration design in Biology
- Genetic systems design from the DNA modules
Old project ideas
Hey Mutant, have a look!
The easy and serious way
- George Church CONSTRUCTIVE BIOLOGY - a nice paper about the challenges of modern biology
- The webcast from SB2.0
These people do great things
Albert Libchaber [2]
Carlos Bustamante's lab [3]
David Deamer [4]
Eric Kool’s group [5]
Erik Winfree [6]
Fred Menger’s group [7]
Jack Szostak’s lab [8]
Norman Packard’s Protolife [9]
Pier Luigi Luisi’s group [10]
Radhika Nagpal [11]
Steven Benner’s group [12]
Local
An Analysis of Synthetic Biology Research in Europe and North America [13]
DNA synthesis: ATG-Biosynthetics [14]