BioHacking: Theory and Practice

From the central dogma to selection, PCR, and plasmid construction!

This afternoon workshop will bring non biologists up to speed on the concepts that make molbio biohacking work. We'll review a simple molecular biology 'device template', how its constructed and how the 'biologic' functions create the logic for an E coli camera, salt detector and other example projects that use this template from the iGEM synBio competition (http://igem.org).

We'll learn to mine the online public databases to find new genes for your project. Finally we'll apply these principles to a brief brief outline of resources and approaches for a few broader topics. Workshop given by Ron Shigeta (Bioinformatics @ Affymtetrix) and Drew Waight (Stroud Lab @ UCSF).

Time: 1 PM to 5 PM

Bringing a laptop is recommended, but not required.