Next Idea Lab September 15th 2012:
Next-Generation Sequencing (with emphasis on Illumina Solexa, Roche 454, and Ion Torrent)

Some useful links:

http://mkt.illumina.com/Webinar_Landingpage_Microbiology_0812.html?scid=2012225EC7 - First 15 minutes talks about Illumina

http://eorder.sheridan.com/3_0/display/index.php?flashprint=1779 - Benchmark Comparison of Solexa, 454, and Ion Torrent

Topics to be covered at future meetings:

Sociology of science

Tissue Engineering

Stem Cells
Recent paper Encoding Book in DNA

Genetic Engineering of Microprocessors using T4 Microphages + colloidal systems

Yeast cell cycle

Anti-bodies in Bacteria

Artificial amino acids

Bacterial secretion pathways

Immunology - antibody generation- in the context of experimental techniques

IdeaLab Classics:

http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/archive.html

Monday June 11, 2012

http://www.wormbook.org/chapters/www_reportergenefusions/...

GFP Presentation.rtf

Info on antibodies:

http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Monoclonal_Antibody

Western Blot:

http://www.piercenet.com/browse.cfm?fldID=8259A7B6-7DA6-41CF-9D55-AA6C14F31193

His Tag for protein purification:

http://kirschner.med.harvard.edu/files/protocols/QIAGEN_QIAexpressionist_EN.pdf

GST Tag:

http://www.piercenet.com/browse.cfm?fldID=4A8ADF29-5056-8A76-4EC6-63375BA024E7

Saturday May 27, 2012

TAL Effector Nucleases