Parts and part composition
Leader: Tanja KortemmeThe most basic unit in the design of synthetic biological systems are parts – pieces of DNA, RNA, or protein that encode and/or can carry out a defined biological function(s) –...
View ArticleChassis technologies
Leader: J. Christopher AndersonThe goal of this thrust is to develop a limited number of chassis that should serve a wide range of activities (testbeds). More specifically, we are working toward the...
View ArticleTinkering with cellular circuits
In the March 14 2008 issue of Science, a team of UC San Francisco scientists led by SynBERC Deputy Director Wendell Lim show how a toolkit of modular molecular components and circuit boards can be used...
View ArticleDatasheet research points the way for biology standards and abstraction
A central tenet of synthetic biology is that by “black-boxing” the complexity of biology, engineers will ultimately be able to manufacture many easy-to-use genetic devices that function as expected....
View ArticleDouble inversion switch enables smarter cells with lasting memory
On the path toward sophisticated cellular computation, synthetic biologists are constantly seeking better ways to program logic into cells. One way to do this is using DNA segments known as inversion...
View ArticleScaffold boosts mevalonate yield 77-fold
In the August 2009 edition of Nature Biotechnology, SynBERC researcher John Dueber and company show how they engineered synthetic protein scaffolds to recruit metabolic enzymes in a manner that greatly...
View ArticleSynBERC students receive venture award for biofuels start-up
Graduate students Jeffrey Dietrich, Howard Chou, and Eric Steen from the Keasling lab, as well as Angela Won from the Lim lab, participated in the 2009 Idea to IPO class offered by the Center for...
View ArticleYeast Synthetic Biology Workshop
The Yeast Synthetic Biology Workshop took place on Saturday October 16, 2010 at UC San Francisco's Genentech Hall. Generously supported by Life Technologies, this one-day workshop was in response to a...
View ArticleWelcome to SynBERC
The Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) is a multi-institution research effort to lay the foundation for the emerging field of synthetic biology. SynBERC’s vision is to catalyze...
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