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iGEM 2005 The summer 2005 intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine competition.

Contents 1 Participating Schools 2 2.1 Davidson College Synth-Aces 2.2 [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Davidson Davdison Parts in Registry] 3 3.1 Events 3.2 Papers for Students to Read 3.2.1 General Review Papers 3.2.2 Research Papers in Synthetic Biology 3.3 Possible Fun Groups 3.4 Resources

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]

Davidson College Synth-Aces

[http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Davidson Davdison Parts in Registry]

Summer 2005 Research Students

• Nick Cain
• Kristen DeCelle
• Tamar Odle

Links to Courses

• [http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/synthetic/synthetic.html Synthetic Lab Course Fall 2005]

• [http://www.bio.davidson.edu/genomics Genomics Lecture Course (with Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology Sections)]

• [http://www.bio.davidson.edu/programs/Genomics/concentration.html Genomics Concentration (interdiciplinary minor)]

• [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]

If you would like help setting up a [http://karma.med.harvard.edu/wiki/iGEM_2005 WIKI], please, contact [http://karma.med.harvard.edu/wiki/User_talk:Alexanderwait me]!

• [http://rosalind.csail.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_MIT MIT]
  • [http://model.mit.edu/igem/ MIT team's WIKI]
• [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
  • 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), [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/303/5655/158 URL]

• Jeff Hasty, David McMillen, and J. J. Collins. 2002. Engineered Gene Circuits. Nature. Vol. 420: 224 - 230. (Scholarly Review Paper), [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v420/n6912/abs/nature01257_fs.html URL]

• Philip Ball. 2004. Starting from Scratch. Nature. Vol. 431: 624 - 626. (OK general overview), [http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041004/pf/431624a_pf.html URL]

• Editors of Nature. 2004. Futures of Artificial Life. Nature. Vol. 431: 613. (Editorial that addresses ethical considerations), [http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/synthetic/papers/Synthetic_Editorial.pdf 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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