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iGEM 2005 The summer 2005 intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine competition.

Contents 1 Participating Schools 2 Events 3 Papers for Students to Read 3.1 General Review Papers 3.2 Research Papers in Synthetic Biology 4 Possible Fun Groups 5 Resources

Participating Schools

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• Berkeley
• Caltech
• Cambridge
• Davidson
  • Davidson College Synth-Aces

• ETH_Zurich
• Harvard

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• MIT
• Oklahoma
• Penn State
• Princeton
• Toronto
• UCSF
• UT Austin
• Registry

Events

• Teacher's Workshop - May 15-15, 2005
  • Parts, Devices, Systems & Engineering Theory
  • Risks and Rewards
• 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), URL

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

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

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

• 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. (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)

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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