[BBF Standards] Fwd: How to get the parts

[Edmar Ferreira]

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From: Edmar Ferreira <edmaroliveiraferreira at gmail.com>
Date: 04/03/2008 11:32
Subject: Re: [BBF Standards] How to get the parts
To: Randy Rettberg <randy at rettberg.com>

I am a graduate student of Computer engeeniring at FACIT (
www.femc.edu.br/facit/)
and Biology at UNIMONTES (www.unimontes.br). I live in Montes Claros,
Brazil.
I work at  UNIMONTES Computacional Biology laboratory, I am working  in a
project called
BioMa (www.bioma.ufv.br the page need atualizations). BioMa is a specimen
based Biodiversity data Manager. I am also developing a mashup with
informations about local business (www.nortemap.com).

I am interested in specific parts that allow an easy output detection as pH
variation,
color changes, illumination and some logic parts as inverters. I wanna use
these parts
to make a kit to teach high school students (and maybe college) the basics
of synthetic biology.

If you know some brazilian working on this field, please let me know about
it. We don't have much discussion about this topic (synthetic biology) in
Brazil. This field have a great potencial to improve
the life of people in deloping countrys like Brazil, but we need to educate
this people (my people)
to make changes happen, in addiction of the ambitious project of a true
engineering of life needs many brains working in all the countrys of the
world to benefit of the humanking.

In a near future I wanna make a team to participate on IGEM but for now we
don't have
the resources needed.

I wanna to congratulate the biobrick fundation and all community of
synthetic biologists for the efforts to make this new field based on the
spirit of open colaboration that, in essence, is the heart
of true science.

2008/3/1, Randy Rettberg <randy at rettberg.com>:
>
> Dear Edmar,
>
> I am the Director of the Registry of Standard BIological Parts at MIT
> and also the
> Director of iGEM.  Here are some ways to participate in wet synthetic
> biology and
> use the parts from the Registry.
>
> We normally send the kit of parts to iGEM teams and to labs that are
> members
> of the Registry. We occasionally send out samples to individuals.
>
> iGEM is an exciting and powerful way to learn synthetic biology. You
> might want to start
> a new team. You can put your name on the iGEM mailing lists at
> igem.org/2008, There might
> be an iGEM team forming in  your school or your country without your
> knowledge.
>
> We also encourage labs to join the Registry. Please have the lab
> leader contact me about setting
> this up.
>
> In 2007, we had quite a few high school students participating in
> iGEM teams. We even have one
> high school lab that is a member of the Registry.
>
> Perhaps you don't want the entire kit of 2000 parts, but rather just
> a starter kit with a few interesting
> parts. If it were possible to reach a consensus on a small set of
> popular parts, we might be
> able to distribute them more broadly.
>
> What college and country are you from?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Randy Rettberg
> MIT
>
>
> On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Edmar Ferreira wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody
> >
> > I was wondering if you could help me.
> > I was thinking of start some research in synthetic biology,
> > but how could I can get some biobricks to start ?
> > The unique way is to participate in IGEM ? We don't have a team in
> > my college or even in my country !
> > Some team can clone and redistribute those parts ?
> > The price of synthesis are falling, however are too high to me,
> > even a simple system
> > will cost thousands of dollars !!
> > Anybody know where can I find data sheets for the biobricks ?
> >
>
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