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iGEM 2005 The summer 2005 intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine competition.

Participating Schools

Click to see each team's parts

• Berkeley
• Caltech
• Cambridge

Davidson College Synth-Aces

Davdison Parts in Registry

Summer 2005 Research Students

• Nick Cain
• Kristen DeCelle
• Tamar Odle

Links to Courses

• Synthetic Lab Course Fall 2005

• Genomics Lecture Course (with Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology Sections)

• Genomics Concentration (interdiciplinary minor)

• ETH_Zurich
• Harvard

If you would like help setting up a WIKI, please, contact me!

• MIT
  • MIT team's WIKI
• Oklahoma
• Penn State
• Princeton
• Toronto
• UCSF
• UT Austin
• Registry

Events

• Teacher's Workshop - May 15-15, 2005
  • Parts, Devices, Systems & Engineering Theory
  • Risks and Rewards
  • Notes on Tom Knight's talk
• Jamboree, November 5-6, 2005 (to change the name of the Jamboree, please send Drew Endy a check for $30,000,000)

Papers for Students to Read

General Review Papers

• Dan Ferber. 2004. Microbes Made to Order. Science. Vol. 303: 158 - 161. (Good general overview), URL

• Jeff Hasty, David McMillen, and J. J. Collins. 2002. Engineered Gene Circuits. Nature. Vol. 420: 224 - 230. (Scholarly Review Paper), URL

• Philip Ball. 2004. Starting from Scratch. Nature. Vol. 431: 624 - 626. (OK general overview), URL

• Editors of Nature. 2004. Futures of Artificial Life. Nature. Vol. 431: 613. (Editorial that addresses ethical considerations), URL

Research Papers in Synthetic Biology

• Robert T. Batey, Sunny D. Gilbert, and Rebecca K. Montange. 2004. Structure of a Natural Guanine-responsive Riboswitch Complexed with a Metabolite Hypoxanthine. Nature. Vol. 432. 411 - 415. (Distinguishes Riboswitches from Aptamers and Antiswitches; also shows 3D structure of aptamer and ligand)

• News Summary of Batey et al. 2004. (Batey et al., paper above)

• Laising Yen et al. 2004. Exogenous Controlof Mammalian Gene Expression through Modulation of RNA Self-cleavage. Nature. Vol. 431: 471 - 476. (mRNA-mediated regulation of translation)

• Yina Kuang, Israel Biran, and David R. Walt. 2004. Simultaneously Monitoring Gene Expression Kinetics and Genetic Noise in Single Cells by Optical Well Arrays. Analytical Chemistry. Vol. 76: 6282 - 6286. (Analysis of two promoters)

• Sara Hooshangi, Stephan Thiberge, and Ron Weiss. 2005. Ultrasensitivity and noise propagation in a synthetic transcriptional cascade. PNAS. 102(10): 3581–3586. (Basic Research Paper)

• Bayer, Travis S. and Christina D. Smolke. 2005. Programable ligand-conrolled riboregulators of eukaryotic gene expression. Nature Biotechnology. 23 (3): 337 - 343. (Antiswithces that turn off or on mRNA translation, regulated by amptamer binding ligands)

• Isaacs, Farren J. and James J. Collins. 2005. Plug-andplay with RNA. Nature Biotechnology. 23 (3): 306 -307. (Commentary on Bayer & Smolke, 2005.)

Possible Fun Groups

1. Awards Panel
2. Jamboree Planning
3. Editorial Board
4. Standards of Practice
5. iGEM 2006 Planning
6. Others (Publicity?)

Resources

1. Blue Heron Point of Contact
2. Part Nicknames

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