[BBF Standards] functional composition of BioBrick parts?

[Caroline Ajo-Franklin]

My apologies - the March 1st meeting!
Caroline

On Jan 29, 2008 10:13 AM, Caroline Ajo-Franklin <CAjo-Franklin at lbl.gov> wrote:
> Hi Drew & Members of the Standards working group,
>   At the November workshop, Alistair Elfick, Christopher Mason, Barry
> Canton, Reshma Shetty, Kim de Mora, Matthieu Buprelle, Vincent
> Rouilly, Scott Mohr, and myself met and outlined two initial goals for
> our working group:
> 1) to determine the variability of in vivo fluorescence measurements
> of identical strains across different labs
> 2) to draft a standard for transcriptional devices
>  While this was an excellent start, we haven't yet gotten farther. We
> are eager to have something in hand for the March 31 meeting, so your
> reminder is quite welcome.
>
> Standards working group, could I please get some volunteers to help
> who have access to a FACS machine and would be interested in making a
> handful of in vivo fluorescence measurements before the March 31st
> meeting? This experiment is designed to answer the question: How much
> does the relative fluorescence of two (or three) GFP-expressing E.coli
> strains vary between different labs assuming identical media & growth
> conditions? It would be great to get measurements from several labs
> spread across the world.
>  Could I also get some volunteers interested in drafting a standard
> sheet for transcriptional devices to be presented at the March 31st
> meeting? The goal here is to articulate the minimum description of a
> transcriptional device which would enable its use in a higher order
> device, and would build upon substantial starts present in the
> Registry documentation and in the literature.
>
>  If you interested in joining the struggle to standardize biological
> parts through either of these efforts, please drop me an e-mail by
> this Sunday Feb 2.
>
> Best-
> Caroline
>
>
> On Jan 27, 2008 3:53 PM, Drew Endy <endy at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Caroline, Chris, Deepak,
> >
> >
> > The Technical Standards Group at the BBF recently launched.
> >
> > A number of new folks have signed up and are anxious to help.
> >
> > At the November BBF workshop we expressed an interest in working together on
> > standard(s) that define how BioBrick parts function so that, when two parts
> > are combined, the resulting behavior of the composite part is as expected,
> > and not some surprising emergent property.  Has there been any progress?
> > Who is leading our discussion?  Can we get a report / update?  Should we
> > recruit more people to help with this topic?  E.g., I know that Reshma
> > Shetty and Jason Kelly have been working on a PoPS level standard.
> >
> > The next workshop is coming up on March 1 at UCSF and we're hoping to be
> > able to discuss progress and plans to continue to take things forward.
> >
> > If you haven't signed up for the mailing list, here's the URL to do so:
> >
> > Standards mailing list
> > Standards at biobricks.org
> > http://biobricks.org/mailman/listinfo/standards_biobricks.org
> >
> > Thanks / be great!
> > Drew
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: "Julius B. Lucks" <julius at younglucks.com>
> > Date: January 27, 2008 5:11:56 PM EST
> > To: standards at biobricks.org
> > Subject: [BBF Standards] Starting off discussions
> >
> > Maybe a good place to start discussions is for the 4 topic leaders to
> > send something to the list saying a little bit about the topic, and
> > what needs to get done before March 1.  That would be very helpful
> > for those of us new to the discussions to figure out where we can
> > jump in and help out.
> >
> >
> > A small number of groups set out to start working on some of these,
> > and report back at the next standards workshop (March 1 at UCSF).
> > Here are the four sub groups that got started:
> >
> > Physical Assembly of BioBrick Parts:
> > Randy Rettberg, Stephen Davies, Austin Che, Kristina Muller, Raik
> > Grunberg, Chris Anderson, John Dueber, Scott Mohr
> >
> > Push / Pull Parts Across Computer Networks:
> > Raik Grunberg, Drew Endy, Christopher Mason, Randy Rettberg, Chris
> > Anderson, John Dueber, Deepak Chandran, Mac Cowell, Sean Sleight, Matt
> > Silver
> >
> > Functional Composition:
> > Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Drew Endy, Christopher Mason, Deepak Chandran,
> >
> > Experiments & Results:
> > Chris Anderson, Kristian Muller, Drew Endy, John Dueber
> >
> > The first person listed above for each group was supposed to be the
> > leader of the group.  We'll have to check with them to see what they
> > have been doing, and find new leaders if needed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julius
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Ph.D.
> Staff Scientist, Biological Nanostructures Facility
> The Molecular Foundry
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
> phone: 510.486.4299
> e-mail: CAjo-Franklin at lbl.gov
>



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Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Biological Nanostructures Facility
The Molecular Foundry
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
phone: 510.486.4299
e-mail: CAjo-Franklin at lbl.gov