DIYbio in 5 minutes - O’Reilly Ignite Boston 3
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Here is an overview of DIYbio in 5 minutes - recorded at O'Reilly's Ignite Boston 2008.
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MashupCamp3 (at MIT) - post 2
Lots of links from MashupCamp3. I really should put them into del.icio.us, but my tags are so messy and unorganized I will just list them here until I have time to overhaul my bookmarks.
Dapper
openkapow
tourfilter
topicmaps
Joomla!
Piggy Bank
memetracking
Be sure to check out Dapper & openkapow - they are awesome. The names ...
MashupCamp3 (at MIT) - post 1
Well, I got back from BioSysBio 2007 and 2 great days of iGEM2007 work in Cambridge, UK yesterday afternoon, crashed for about 12 hours, and woke up for MashupCamp3, which happens to be located at Hotel@MIT this year and occurring today and tomorrow. I'm really hoping I get a ...
BioSysBio
Well, BioSysBio 2007 has come and gone! What a blast! I was on the organizing committee and contributed mainly by videoing the talks and posting them on google video. About 2/3 of them are online now - just search for BioSysBio on google video. I'd like ...
David Baltimore’s perspectives on Synthetic Biology
Here's a rough transcript of Dr. Baltimore's talk:
I helped organize Asilomar. That was more than 30 years ago; none of you were born then, but perhaps you've heard of it. Back then we had no experience with recombinant technology. We didn't know what to expect of it ...
Summaries of selected 10-minute short talks
Caroline Ajo-Franklin (Harvard Medical School) presented work on a cell-cycle counter.
Steffen Mueller (SUNY Stony Brook) spoke about synthetic virus design.
Live attenuated viruses are usually generated through big serial dilutions in a costly and time consuming process, and the resulting mutations that attenuate it are usually few in number. Instead, ...
"Synthetic retrotransposons" - Jef Boeke
Retrotransposition is one of the two basic types of transposition we find in biology. It's sort of fun to survey where transposons are in the tree of life: in the case of more eukaryotes, most of the genome is transposons; little of microbial genomes are retrotransposons.
LINEs (L1) transposon sequences ...
"Synthetic immunology: engineering immunity" - David Baltimore
"The world's major killers are killers because they elude immune attack: HIV, malaria, tuberculosis," etc. What are needed are new approaches to stopping these pathogens. "The don't work because they haven't worked" - and what I mean by that is that the immune system is gonna fail when ...
"Secreting Spider Silk in Salmonella" - Chris Voigt
Let's engineer a "super" salmonella that can construct and extrude silk filaments from its membrane. Spider silks have a wide variety of desirable materials properties. Dragline silk is equal strength of kevlar, but 10 times more elastic. Silks are amino acid biopolymers with elastic and crystalline elements, ...
"Synthetic mammalian gene networks" - Martin Fussenegger
For any therapeutic intervention, dosing is key.
Consider a system for gas-inducible transcription control composed of a fungal trans-activator (expected to be functional in mammalian cells), AlcR, and an operator, activated by small concentrations of a chemical found in tabacco smoke.
Some of their work (biotechnol bioeng. 83:810 2003) demonstrated that different ...
Cuchi Cuchi 1
Thai cocktail
It's like an effervescent thai foot massage... For your tongue. It even taste a little gingery, but it lacks Ginger. A syrupy lime kick transitions into basilness, somehow ending with licorice. Yum!
Caip
They say it's been made impure with all the extra ingredients.. But it's like ...
Eastern Standard Cocktails
Notes from my exploration of eastern standard's cocktail menu:
Old Cuban: reminds me of a mojito + champagne - it's very tasty.
Periodista: "rum for the intrepid reporter" - a little more than simply a mojito in a cocktail glass (with delicious ice crystals), the periodista is a citrusy drink with a ...
DIYbio 3 - Gel Electrophoresis
Thanks to everyone for a great meeting: Michael, Jason, Sophia, Benny, Topher, Ricardo, Alex, Alec, nublabs, and everyone else.
Overview:
DIYbio 2 & 3 were focused on gel electrophoresis - we started by researching all the amateur gel protocols we could find online (notably the MacGuyver Project and the MAKE protocol, ...
RubyU class 1 setup notes
My notes for getting all the prerequisites for Matt Knox's 1st RubyU class (hosted by Sermo) set up on my MacBook Pro (10.5). Also see the friendfeed RubyU room.
== getting prereqs installed ==
ruby
> anvil:rubyclass macowell$ ruby -verison
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i686-darwin9.2.2]
gems
See http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/1
> anvil:rubyclass macowell$ gem environment
> - ...
DIYbio in 5 minutes - O’Reilly Ignite Boston 3
DIYbio in 5 minutes - O'Reilly ignite Boston from mac cowell on Vimeo.
Here is an overview of DIYbio in 5 minutes - recorded at O'Reilly's Ignite Boston 2008.
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