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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

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

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.

The iGEM competition: 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)"

The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is designed to answer this question. The challenge is to design and implement a machine capable of performing an engineered task, but in this case, the machines are transcribed from DNA sequences and the parts are RNA, proteins and cells. This interdisciplinary project bridges fields from biology through engineering and computer science and demonstrates how the future of science continues to cross disciplines.

Previous competition entries Started in 2003, MIT students created biological oscillators coupled to fluorescent reporters

Logistics The main competition takes place over the summer with students spending their time designing novel engineered parts, modeling biochemical reactions and then implementing these designs in the lab.

High-profile competition

Future years

Industry sponsors

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

Cross campus 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
Brendan Hickey
Elaine Tran
Elena Helman
Jamie Lemon - Undergraduate Student Biology
Julia Heneghan
Julie Spector
Kara Neergaard
Megan Schmidt - Undergraduate Student Human Biology
Nicholas Halden
Peter Goldstein - Undergraduate Student Computational Biology
Peter Rosenthal
Rahul Nene
Smita Gupta
Victoria Lattanzi

Links

[http://icampus.mit.edu/projects/iGem.shtml iGEM overview]
[http://2006.igem.org/Main_Page iGEM Wiki]