CRISPR Cas9 Synthetic Eukaryotic Transcription Factors
The CRISPR Cas9 technology is used to design synthetic transcription factors in eukaryotes. The approach is used to design activators and repressors. Data shows that this approach can work in yeast and...
View ArticleIntroduction to GenoCAD
This introduction to GenoCAD provides a 2 min overview of the GenoCAD platform. The post Introduction to GenoCAD appeared first on Jean Peccoud.
View ArticleNIH Funding Rate
Dr. Sally Rockey published an interesting blog about the historical trends in NIH funding rates. The success rates are historically low but paradoxically, the number of people funded increases. This...
View ArticleWeb Site 3.0
A little over two years ago, we made a significant effort in developing a web site that could help us better communicate with various categories of stakeholders including students, reviewers,...
View ArticleSynthetic Biology Informatics
Overview I lead the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI). VBI is a research institute of Virginia Tech. My group combines experimental and computational...
View ArticlePlant Synthetic Biology
Plant synthetic biology requires software tools to assist on the design of complex multi-genic expression plasmids. Here a vector design strategy to express genes in plants is formalized and...
View ArticleDesign of plant expression vectors
An article describing the rule-based design of plant expression vectors was published in PLoS ONE. This plant synthetic biology paper is a collaboration with Anna Coll and Kristina Gruden from the...
View ArticleComputational Biology Position
Our collaborator John Tyson has an open computational biology position for a postdoc with background in computational biology. The postdoctoral associate’s primary responsibility will be to construct,...
View ArticleUndergraduate Internship Bioinformatics
We are looking for an undergraduate student to participate in a bioinformatics project. Interested candidates should send me their resume. Project Synthetic biologists rely on databases of biological...
View ArticleUndergraduate Internship Scientific Communication
We are looking for an undergraduate student for an internship in scientific communication. Interested candidates should send me their resume. Project Communication is an important aspect of the...
View ArticleUndergraduate Internship Experimental Cell Biology
We are looking for an undergraduate student for an internship in experimental cell biology. Interested candidates should send me their resume. Project Cell division is the basis of life and requires a...
View ArticleScholar of the week
Thank you to whoever nominated me for the “Scholar of the Week” award. The goals of the Scholar of the Week are to recognize individuals while also telling people about research and scholarly...
View ArticleVirginia Tech announces GenoCAD transition
Virginia Tech issued a press-release announcing the transformation of GenoCAD into a commercial product. GenoCAD started as a NSF-funded research project. In 2010, we released the application...
View ArticleTesting of a New Integrated Model of the Yeast START Transition
We propose a new model of the yeast start transition. We tested the accuracy of the model by simulating various mutants not described in the literature. The cell cycle is composed of bistable...
View ArticleLanguage for plant synthetic biology
Virginia Tech issued a press release describing the language for plant synthetic biology developed in collaboration with Anna Coll. Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech...
View ArticleSynthetic Biology Security Course
Overview: Practical Introduction to Synthetic Biology Security Synthetic biology security can be difficult to assess. The emergence of synthetic biology is catalyzing a change of paradigms in life...
View ArticleSecurity of Synthetic Biology
The security of synthetic biology can be difficulty to assess. Last month we organized a week-long training on the security of synthetic biology for personnel of a government agency. This very hands-on...
View ArticleExperimental design to optimize multigene expression systems
This is a very dense paper that describes an principled approach to design experiments minimizing the number of constructs to test to optimize the expression of expression systems that rely on the...
View ArticleUniversal genetic parts for bacteria
This paper describes UBER, a set of universal genetic parts for bacteria. This gene expression system for bacteria relying on a self-regulated T7 promoter. The advantage of this system is that it can...
View ArticleRecent synthetic biology articles
This page helps you find recent synthetic biology articles. All these articles have been mentioned at least once in social media over the last seven days. They are ranked by number of mentions in...
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