CH391L/S14/KeyPapers

=This is a list of the key papers for the semester.=

This will be updated throughout the semester to record the papers discussed and to provide a quick reference source for anyone looking back on the class.

For Week III, February 3rd 2014

 * iGEM registry/parts: Knight2003 T. Knight, “Idempotent Vector Design for Standard Assembly of Biobricks” (MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2003).
 * BioBricks: #Endy2008 pmid=18612302
 * CAD systems: #Sauro2009 pmid=19874625

For Week IV, February 10th 2014

 * Gibson assembly: #Smith2009 pmid=19363495
 * Genome synthesis: #Venter2010 pmid=20488990

For Week V, February 17th 2014

 * GFP  and    Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction: [combined for time and similarity] #Matz2010 pmid=19793832

For Week VI, February 24th 2014

 * Link to Tinker Cell

For Week VII, March 3rd 2014

 * Directed Protein Evolution: #Liu2011 pmid=21478873


 * Biocontainment and Selections: #Guo2013 pmid=23662731


 * Reading for riboswitches (read before class on March 3rd)

For Week VIII, March 17th 2014

 * Non-canonical Nucleotides: #Benner2006 pmid=17074747


 * Stochastic Gene Expression: #Swain2002 pmid=12183631

For Week IX, March 24th 2014

 * Motility and Taxis #Voigt2006 pmid=16330045


 * Optogenetics - Review article #LaLumiere2011 pmid=21255749


 * Quorum Sensing #March2010 pmid=20534565

For Week X, March 31st 2014

 * Cell Counting and Memory #Collins2009 pmid=19478183


 * Oscillations #Hasty2008 pmid=18971928

For Week XI, April 7th 2014

 * MAGE #Church2011 pmid=21764749


 * CRISPR #Church2013 pmid=23287722


 * GMO article from the NY Times. Read the entirety of this article.  We will have a discussion relating to this and other GMO topics in class


 * Amber-less E. coli [Led by Mike Hammerling. Look over the paper, but you do not need to understand everything #Isaacs2013 pmid=24136966

For Week XII, April 14th 2014

 * small RNAs #Lee2013 pmid=23334451

For Week XIII, April 21st 2014

 * Bioremediation #Apte2013 pmid=24140537

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