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Teachtheteachers
From 2008.igem.org
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
iGEM Websites
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 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 here. (doi:10.1186/1754-1611-2-5)
10:45 am Randy Rettberg -- Overview of the iGEM 2008 Wiki
12:00 noon -- Lunch and team introductions
1:15 pm -- Mathworks Introduction
MathWorks is again a sponsor of iGEM.
Click here for software and training!
Contact is Kristen Zannella for information or feedback kzannella(at)mathworks(period)com
1:30 pm -- Meagan Lizarazo, Overview of Registry tools, BioBrick formats
See techical formats for overview of the various standards.
2:45 pm -- Meagan Lizarazo, Overview of 2008 DNA distribution
Information about the 2008 DNA can be found here. This year the DNA is spotted onto filter sheets that will be sent out in a binder.
