Rice University 2006

From 2006.igem.org

Contents 1 Welcome 2 Undergraduate Students 3 Graduate Students 4 Advisors 5 EXPERIMENTAL GROUP 6 Project Proposals 7 Synthetic Biology Journal Club 7.1 19 June 7.2 13 June 7.3 5 June 7.4 30 May

Welcome

Welcome to the Rice 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.

Phase 1: PCR Amplification of Genes

Week 1

   a. PCR amplify ComP, ComA.
   b. PCR amplify ComQ, ComX.
   c. PCR amplify the Tsr receptor.
   d. Isolate tet promoter, RBS, and tetR from the BioBrick Libraries.

Project Proposals

1. Seek and Destroy Coli

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).

Here's what we'd like to see on your wiki page(s):

1. A list of all team members, their roles, and email addresses
2. Overview of project(s), including schematics and figures
3. Ongoing data/updates about project(s), including schematics, figures, test data, and biobrick parts used
4. Some photos of your team, facilities, institution, etc.
5. Optionally, anything that broadcasts your team's personality, spirit, sense of fun, or coolness...