Synthetic Biology: Engineering a Novel Organism (semester?), IPRO 302: Synthetic Biology IPRO 302 Final Report Sp07 Sandulescu, Corina Ruszczak, Christopher Ervin, Natalia Lim, Soo Heller, Matthew Kisiel, Greggory Sharma, Shubhi Vasireddi, Sunil Lin, Jeffrey Ingvoldstad, Bennett Carlton, Kyle Sobczck, Karol Nicholas Menhart Synthetic Biology Zebra Fish Synthetic biology is a relatively new approach to genetic research where the focus is to build a simple genetic system with known processes and test it in a biological setting. This is in contrast to the reductionist approach where a complex pre-existing biological system is analyzed in an attempt to discover the purpose of each of the parts. In this IPRO, a very simple genetic system is being designed, built, and tested in a biological setting. Previous semesters have already accomplished such in bacteria. This semester's focus will be on building the system designed last semester and inserting it into an eukaryotic organism; the zebrafish. The main purpose of this IPRO is to advance the knowledge of biological systems and their manipulation. This is being done through the design and creation of a simple, but novel, genetic circuit, and the introduction of this circuit into an organism to observe its properties in vivo. In order to accomplish this goal, we have split up into 4 different sub-teams: Fish, Math Modeling, Futures and Design, and Construction Deliverables for IPRO 302: Synthetic Biology: Engineering a Novel Organism for the Spring 2007 semester 2007-05 2007-05 Project deliverable application/pdf islandora:13982 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/1832 IPRO / Interprofessional Projects Program Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access