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Teachtheteachers
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Teach the Teachers 2008
Stata Center, MIT, May 3, 2008
9:00 am -- Welcome and Introduction by Randy Rettberg
Movies
iGEM Cartoon Movie
Movie about the 2006 iGEM Slovenian team
[http://blip.tv/file/472883 The iGEM 2007 Dance movie]
iGEM Websites
[http://partsregistry.org New Parts Registry site] -- active in about 1 week
Overview of the schedule for the day
9:30 am Synthetic Biology based on Parts -- Tom Knight
Abstraction and Design of Simple Biological Systems
This is very similar to his talk presented at SB3.0 in Zurich, available [http://www.syntheticbiology3.ethz.ch/tuesday.htm here] at the bottom of the page.
10:00 am Jason Kelly -- Standard Measurement Kit for BioBrick Promoters (PoPS-out devices)
(The slides will be at http://partsregistry/measurement when the site is live)
Jason explains how to measure the PoPs of promoters and compare it to a reference standard.
10:30 am Reshma Shetty Building BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts
Everything you need to know can be found in their Journal of Biological Engineering article, found [http://www.jbioleng.org/content/2/1/5 here]. (doi:10.1186/1754-1611-2-5)
10:45 am Randy Rettberg -- Overview of the iGEM 2008 Wiki
