Team:Goettingen/Project/Bioinformatical Tools

Weekly Seminars

The iGEM Team Göttingen meets once a week for information exchange on actual topics concerning officialism but also to discuss the results of the experiments and to find new solutions for upcoming problems. Moreover, also papers on diverse topics related to synthetic biology are presented by the students. Presentations are hold in English.

Announcements

15 August 2012, Student Presentation

Anna will present the topic
"Synthetic Biology in Examples I: Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria" the paper:
J. Christopher Anderson, Elizabeth J. Clarke, Adam P. Arkin and Christopher A. Voigt. (2006). Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria. J. Mol. Biol., Vol. 355: 619–627.

Past Presentations

08 August 2012, Student Presentations

Sandra presented on the topic
"Chemotaxis I: The signalling network, cellular computation, integrated gene circuits" the paper:
Nagarajan Nandagopal and Michael B. Elowitz. (2011). Synthetic Biology: Integrated Gene Circuits. SCIENCE, Vol. 333: 1244-1248.

Alicia presented on the topic
"Chemotaxis II: Quorum sensing and its applications in synthetic biology" the paper:
Nazanin Saeidi, Choon Kit Wong, Tat-Ming Lo, Hung Xuan Nguyen, Hua Ling, Susanna Su Jan Leong, Chueh Loo Poh and Matthew Wook Chang. (2011) Engineering microbes to sense and eradicate Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a human pathogen. Molecular Systems Biology 7:521.

15 May 2012, Student Presentation

Jan presented on the topic
"Directed Evolution" the paper:
Ryan E. Cobba, Ning Sunc, Huimin Zhao. (2012) Directed evolution as a powerful synthetic biology tool. Methods

08 May 2012, Advisor Presentation

Prof. Neumann presented on the topic

• Introduction to iGEM and the project

30 April 2012, Advisor Presentation

Prof. Neumann presented on the topic

• PCR: Polymerases, Primer design, PCR parameters, PCR protocols (e.g. touch down, gradients, nested, multiplex), QuikChange mutagenesis, trouble shooting

24 April 2012, Advisor Presentation

Prof. Neumann presented on the topic

• Cloning strategies: Restriction enzymes [Typ IIA (standard), IIM (DpnI), IIS (BsaI); unit definition, buffers, handling], BioBricks strategy, Ligation free cloning, trouble shooting