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
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