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Exploring Synthetic Biology: Curriculum Development Insights

Discover the insights gained on self-discovery while developing a synthetic biology curriculum. From experimental contexts to device details and mutation/evolution, uncover the journey of evolving biological systems.

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Exploring Synthetic Biology: Curriculum Development Insights

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  1. SB 2.0 Day 3 05.22.06

  2. Illustration I “More important, however, is what I learned about myself”

  3. www.openwetware/wiki/BE.109

  4. Top-Down Curriculum Development runners-up for experimental contexts • who ordered that? • light my wire • lucifer-yeast • cut it out • yeast identity crisis • language of biological systems (device details) • PR • interpretive dance

  5. standards • noise • logic functions • grammar of genetic composition • device characterization • transfer curves • physical assembly • functional composition • mutation/evolution • circuit design • coordinating cell behavior • predictable manipulation • digital vs analog • measurement: cell vs bulk • measurement: PoPS • abstraction • decoupling Bottom-Up Curriculum Development

  6. Standards • Students register, identify parts, specify a protein generator • Assembly: physical not functional, cloning vs direct synthesis • Specify new part

  7. Characterization

  8. Characterization

  9. Characterization

  10. Characterization

  11. Citizenship “Utter the words ‘synthetic biology,’ and no tangible consumer products come to mind. Rather the words ‘synthetic biology’ evoke images of mad scientists mixing liquids with arcane names for purposes that can hardly be elucidated to fellow mad scientists, much less laymen.” --Cokie Hu, MIT ‘08

  12. Illustration II “Break something”

  13. “What we learn to do we learn by doing”

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