Rice University 2006
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Welcome
Welcome to the Rice [http://icampus.mit.edu/projects/iGem.shtml International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)] Team Wiki. We are participating in the iGEM Competition for the first time so we are in the process of building our team. Currently, we are developing a 'quorumtaxis' system, which integrates the quorum-sensing and chemotaxis systems. Bacteria engineered with this quorumtaxis system will be able to move towards high concentrations of quorum pheromone. The Rice iGEM Team is divided into three groups: Experimental, Theory, and Modeling. Explore our website or contact us, as we will be constantly updating with the latest developments in the project.
Undergraduate Students
Chris Conner - Junior, Biochemistry and Computational & Applied Mathematics
Dario Prieto - Junior, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Miinkay Yu - Junior, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Tina Chen - Senior, Kinesiology
Thomas Segall-Shapiro - Freshman
Teresa Monkkonen - Senior, Biochemistry
Mary Kay Thompson - Senior, Biochemistry
Shan Gao - Senior, Biochemistry
Jeremy Thompson - Senior, Biochemistry
Leah McKay - Senior, Biochemistry
Graduate Students
Bibhash Mukhopadhyay - Molecular & Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Christie Peebles - Bioengineering
Irene Martinez - Bioengineering
Jay Raol - Computational & Applied Mathematics
Peter Nguyen - Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Advisors
Beth Beason - Biochemistry & Cell Biology
George Bennett - Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Jonthan Silberg - Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Ka-Yiu San - Bioengineering
Ken Cox - Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Steve Cox - Computational & Applied Mathematics
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
Welcome! The Rice iGEM E-group is tasked with the construction of a wholly novel phenotype -- 'quorumtaxis'. More about the specifics of this project can be found in the 'Project Proposals' section of the Rice iGEM page. Currently, we have 6 undergraduate students working on this project, with two graduate students as advisors.
Experimental Work
Phase 1: PCR Amplification of Genes
Phase 2: Plasmid Construction and Bacterial Transformations
Project Proposals
1. Seek and Destroy E.Coli Proposal Outline
Synthetic Biology Journal Club
19 June
13 June
- J. Raol and D. Prieto described the 2005 iGEM projects from Caltech and Cambridge.
5 June
- K.-Y. San presented Programmable cells: Interfacing natural and engineered gene networks (Kobayashi, H. et al., PNAS 101: 8414-8419, 2004).
- P. Nguyen presented Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria (Anderson, J. C. et al., J. Mol. Biol. 355: 619-627, 2006).
30 May
- J. Silberg presented Directed evolution of a genetic circuit (Yokobayashi, Y. et al., PNAS 99: 16587-16591, 2002) and Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing (You, L. et al., Nature 428: 868-871, 2004).
- S. Cox presented Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli (Gardner, T. et al., Nature 403: 339-342, 2000).
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