Not just a synthetic biology journal club, the Digital Biology Network is a biweekly meeting for undergrads, grads, and faculty to brainstorm and design biological programs with synthetic biology.
Synthetic biology is where genetic engineering is quickly heading. Don’t cut and splice DNA in a wet lab. Edit the code on computer and print it.
The work isn’t easy. The tools for programming DNA code are still awkward but the potentials are almost limitless. Turn a bacterium into a biofuel producer, like the U of A ButaNerds did last year. Or into a biosensor for arsenic in water, potentially saving thousands of lives in Bangladesh. Or a computer that can keep expanding its processing power exponentially forever. What would you build?
We have a mailing list and a Google calendar you may be interested in. Download a PDF poster, or the poster template.
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Presenter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-01-16 | 1:15 pm | CSC 333 | DBN meeting kickoff (PDF) | Andrew Hessel | |
| 2008-01-30 | 1:15 pm | CSC 333 | Atsumi 2008 (PDF, slides) | Doug Ridgway | |
| 2008-02-11 | 4:00 pm | CSC 249 | Bio-Logic - Sensors, Switches and Genetic Circuits (p1, p2) | Wayne Materi | |
| 2008-02-25 | 4:00 pm | CSC 249 | Freestyle discussion of of DBN-worthy projects | n/a | |
| 2008-03-10 | 4:00 pm | CSC 249 | Riboregulators (Bayer and Smolke 2005) | Justin Pahara | |
| 2008-03-17 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | Open Source Therapeutics (PDF) | Andrew Hessel | |
| 2008-04-07 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | Programming gene expression with combinatorial promoters (Surette 2007) | Doug Ridgway | |
| 2008-04-21 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | Electron transfer on pyrolytic graphite and biological fuel cells (papers) | Joel Weiner | |
| 2008-05-05 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | Chemotaxis controlled by a riboswitch (p1, p2) | David Lancaster | |
| 2008-05-26 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | Computational Complexity of Microarray Analysis | Matthew Hamilton | |
| 2008-06-02 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | The 2007 U of A iGEM Team Project | Jason Gardiner | |
| 2008-06-16 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | The 2007 NINT iGEM Project, team "Logi-col[i]" | Shannon Deane and Jessica D'Amico | |
| 2008-07-14 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | 1KPG, the thousand plant genomes project | Gane Wong | |
| 2008-07-28 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | Expanding the Genetic Code (p1, p2) | Wayne Materi | |
| 2008-08-11 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | Applications of machine learning in informatics | Kevin Jewell | |
| 2008-08-25 | 3:00 pm | CSC 249 | Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction | Justin Pahara | |
| 2008-09-08 | noon | CSC 249 | Garage Biotechnology | Jason Gardiner and/or Tom Tran | |
| 2008-09-22 | noon | MSB 5-10 | Platelet-derived growth factor receptor internalization is modulated by intrinsic kinase activity, receptor dimerization and internalization codes | Justin Pahara | |
| 2008-10-06 | noon | CSC 249 | Project concept: designer reptiles (p1, p2, p3) | Adam Foster | |
| 2008-10-20 | noon | CSC 249 | Roundtable: Synthetic Biology 4.0 | Various | |
| 2008-11-17 | noon | CSC 249 | Seven years on the edges of synthetic biology | Chris Dambrowitz | |
| 2008-12-01 | noon | CSC 249 | What Makes a Successful iGEM Team | Wayne Materi | |
| 2008-12-01 | noon | CSC 249 | MiniMeColi: Toward a minimalist artificial cell | Mike Ellison | |
| 2009-01-12 | noon | CSC 249 | More MiniMe Discussion | Mike Ellison | |
| 2009-01-26 | noon | CSC 249 | Molybdenum cofactor riboswitch (Regulski 2008 PDF, PubMed Central) | Joel Weiner | |
| 2009-02-09 | noon | CSC 249 | Recombineering discussion | ||
| 2009-02-23 | noon | CSC 249 | Electrochemical Biosensors | Justin Pahara | |
| 2009-03-09 | noon | CSC 249 | No meeting |