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iGEM 2005 The summer 2005 intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine competition.

Participating Schools

Click to see each team's parts

• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Berkeley Berkeley]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Caltech Caltech]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Cambridge Cambridge]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Davidson Davidson]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_ETHZ ETH_Zurich]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Harvard Harvard]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_MIT MIT]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Oklamhoma Oklahoma]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Penn_State Penn State]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Princeton Princeton]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Toronto Toronto]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_UCSF UCSF]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_UTAustin UT Austin]
• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Registry Registry]

Events

• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/htdocs/iGEM2005/ttt.cgi Teacher's Workshop] - May 15-15, 2005
• Jamboree (to change the name of the Jamboree, please send Drew Endy a check for $10,000) - November 5-6,2005

Papers for Students to Read

General Review Papers

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

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

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

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

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. (Basic Research Paper)

• News Summary of Batey et al. 2004. (Summary of 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. (Basic Research Paper)

• 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)

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