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EDUCATION

Our first virtual Intro to SynBio course was offered in the fall of 2023. Our intermediate course started on May 2024 and will continue through July 2024.

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Intermediate Course
in Synthetic Biology

May-July 2024

Introduction to Synthetic Biology 2023

SynBio4ALL provided a 6-week introductory course in Synthetic Biology taught by a mixed team from Africa and US accompanied by homework for review

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Week 1

What is Synthetic Biology?

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Week 4

Useful parts in synthetic biology

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Week 2

How does biology process information?

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Week 5

Laboratory Techniques in Synthetic Biology

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Week 3

Controlling what cells make

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Week 6

Cell biology by the numbers

and intro to CRISPR

For any questions regarding the course materials or asynchronous homework,  reached out to Ice and Heidi (synbioforall [at] gmail.com)

Week 1 - What is Synthetic Biology?

Instructor: Heidi Klumpe
TA: Kato Sebunya Emmanuel
Date: November 1st, 2023

In this lecture, we will introduce the idea of synthetic biology from a historical context and provide an example on how the field has developed and impacted our world in the past decades.

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Homework

Week 2 - How does biology process information?

Instructor: Steven Melamia
TA: Cholpisit (Ice) Kiattisewee
Date: November 8th, 2023

In this lecture, we will focus on how Biology naturally processes its information from stored DNA to messenger RNA, and then functional protein

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Week 3 - How can we control biological processes?

Instructor: Ryan Cardiff
TA: Kato Sebunya Emmanuel
Date: November 15th, 2023

In this lecture, we will walk through how use Synthetic Biology idea to control biological process to introduce new technology, such as biomolecules production.

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Week 4 - Useful Parts in Synthetic Biology

Instructor: Prince Edem Samoh
TA: Rosemond Tawiah
Date: November 22nd, 2023

In this lecture, we will walk through different genetic parts in Synthetic Biology engineer novel machineries for biological applications.

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Week 5 - Laboratory Techniques

in Synthetic Biology

Instructor: Cholpisit Ice Kiattisewee
TA: Kato Sebunya Emmanuel
Date: November 29th, 2023

In this lecture, we will dive deeper into how to engineer DNA, the basis of Synthetic Biology. We discussed the method of DNA production, modifications, and assembly while focusing on PCR-based methodology.

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Week 6 - Part 1: Biology by Numbers
Part 2: CRISPR Technologies

Instructor: Heidi Klumpe (Part 1)
and Cholpisit Ice Kiattisewee (Part 2)
Date: December 6th, 2023

In this lecture, we discussed the numerical basis of cell biology in the first half of the lecture. Then, walked through the basics of CRISPR gene editing and provide examples of repurposing the CRISPR tools for programmable gene regulation.

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Homework Team

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Shantal Garcia

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Jeffrey Lee

Elodie Kadjo

Heidi Klumpe

Ice Kiattisewee

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