1. What is Synthetic Biology
Foundational Ideas
Automated DNA Construction
Standards of Abstraction
Goals
Organization of genetic information
Registry of Standard Parts
Built up through iGEM
Open-source biological programming language
Scalable engineering framework

2. Abstraction

3. Banana Biobrick Transcription terminator for the E.coli RNA polymerase
Ribosome binding site
Promoter (lacI regulated)
T1 from E. coli rrnB
alcohol acetyltransferase I; converts isoamyl alcohol to isoamyl acetate (banana odor)

4. Past projects Synthetic blood Banana E. coli Arsenic biosensor
HIV “Virotrap”
Self-organized pattern formation