1. SB 2.0 Day 3

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

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. Bottom-Up Curriculum Development
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”