BU06:Executive Summary

From 2006.igem.org

PUNCHY!

• SB is a new field - Why is it interesting, no, essential!?
  • Standardization of genetic engineering to enable innovation
  • Improves collaboration, rate of innovation,

• • iGEM is about undergrads

Motivation factors for BU professors:

• put boston university undergraduates at the center of an infrastructure of a 'revolutionary' (sorry) new

We need $8,000,000.

We are a group of Undergraduate students from BU who participated in a molecular biology course during the Spring 2006 semester. Our professor, Timothy Gardner, and Professor Drew Endy (MIT) introduced us to the world of synthetic biology. Synthetic Biology is a new field of research that integrates science and engineering in order design biological systems that carry out specific functions, such as programming bacteria to work as a biological toggle switch. Fascinated by the opportunities given by this novel we field of research we decided to participate in the iGEM 2006 competition. Because of the complexity involved in designing and building biological systems we decided to attempt to implement three ideas, each more complicated than the previous one. Moreover, the more complicated ideas are built off of the simpler ideas.