SynBio4ALL Africa
SynBio4ALL Beginner Course 2023
Check our syllabus here for overview of our course, also previewed below.
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
Week 1
What is Synthetic Biology?
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Week 4
Useful parts in synthetic biology
Week 2
How does biology process information?
Week 5
Laboratory Techniques in Synthetic Biology
Week 3
Controlling what cells make
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?
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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Homework
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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Part 1
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Part 2
Homework
Homework Team
Shantal Garcia
