Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
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Jay Keasling's group at California Universi-
ty, Berkeley:
Synthetic Biology Engineering
Research Center
(SynBERC), (http://www.
synberc.org).
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The 14th International Meeting on DNA
Computing. June 2-6, 2008. Prague, (Czech
Republic).
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Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Engineering
Principles in Biological Systems. December
3-6, 2006. Cold Spring Harbor, New York
(USA).
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Tom Knight's group in the MIT, Cambridge:
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory
(CSAIL), (http://knight.open-
wetware.org/).
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First International Conference on Synthetic
Biology 1.0 (SB1.0). June 10-12, 2004. MIT,
Cambridge (USA).
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Andrew Murray's group at Harvard Univer-
sity:
Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biol-
ogy
, (http://www.sysbio.harvard.edu/csb/).
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Second International Conference on Syn-
thetic Biology 2.0 (SB2.0). May 20-22, 2006.
University of California, Berkeley (USA).
•
J. Craig Venter's group in Rockville:
J. Craig
Venter Institute
, (http://www.jcvi.org/).
•
Ron Weiss's group at Princeton Univer-
sity:
weisslab
, (http://weisswebserver.
ee.princeton.edu/).
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Third International Conference on Synthetic
Biology 3.0 (SB3.0). June 24-26, 2007. Zurich
(Switzerland).
In Europe:
MOLECULAR bIOLOGy
DEFINITIONS
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Uri Alon's group in the Weizmann Insti-
tute of Science, Rehovot (Israel):
Uri Alon
Laboratory
, (http://www.weizmann.ac.il/
mcb/UriAlon/).
The following are definitions of biomolecules and
standard molecular biology processes that will be
useful throughout this chapter.
•
Victor de Lorenzo's group in the Centro
Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Madrid
(Spain):
Molecular Environmental Micro-
biology Laboratory
(MEML), (http://www.
cnb.csic.es/~meml/).
•
Nucleoside:
Molecule composed of a
nitrogenous base linked to a sugar called
pentose. The bases in the DNA nucleoside
are adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C)
and thymine (T). The pentose is a deoxyri-
bose. The bases in the RNA nucleoside are
adenine, guanine, cytosine and uracil (U).
The pentose is a ribose.
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Luis Serrano's group in the Centre for Ge-
nomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona (Spain) :
Design of Biological Systems
, (http://pasteur.
crg.es/portal/page/portal/Internet).
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Friedrich C. Simmel's group at Munich
University:
Biomolecular nanoscience
,
(http://www.e14.physik.tu-muenchen.de/.
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Nucleotide:
Molecule composed of a nucleo-
side and one or more phosphate groups linked
by means of ester bonds with the sugar.
Some prominent conferences:
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DNA or RNA strands:
Polymers of nucleo-
tides linked by covalent bonds.
•
BioSysBio 2008: Computational Systems
Biology, Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biol-
ogy. April 20-22, 2008. London (United
Kingdom)
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DNA or RNA hybridization:
Two single
DNA or RNA strands with complementary
base sequences that bind (hybridize) under
suitable temperature and pH conditions to
form a double strand. Hybridization takes
place through complementary base pairing
•
Workshop on Computation in Genetic and
Biochemical Networks. September 4-8,
2006. York (United Kingdom).
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