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Teaching programming with Scratch

Because I learnt that most french schools weren’t teaching any computer science (other than word processing), I am giving a course using Scratch in an elementary school (8 to 9 year old) to teach them some basics about programming. I put together a very basic quiz with if-then-else and equals. scratch.mit.edu/ Hopefully, they’ll play with …

Seminar announcement: “Emerging Biothreats: Securing the Digital Dimension”

THE MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND THE JAMES MARTIN CENTER FOR NONPROLIFERATION STUDIES  PRESENT  A Seminar “Emerging Biothreats: Securing the Digital Dimension”  Speaker Laura Adam, Ph.D. Laura Adam is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Her presentation will offer a constructivist view of the biothreat as three “waves” of …

The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) provides a community standard for communicating designs in synthetic biology

Authors: Michal Galdzicki, Kevin P Clancy, Ernst Oberortner, Matthew Pocock, Jacqueline Y Quinn, Cesar A Rodriguez, Nicholas Roehner, Mandy L Wilson, Laura Adam, J Christopher Anderson, Bryan A Bartley, Jacob Beal, Deepak Chandran, Joanna Chen, Douglas Densmore, Drew Endy, Raik Grünberg, Jennifer Hallinan, Nathan J Hillson, Jeffrey D Johnson, Allan Kuchinsky, Matthew Lux, Goksel Misirli, …

Participate in iGEM 2014 Policy and Practices New Track

Learn about the opportunity to participate in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Policy and Practices New Track Competition of Synthetic Biology at http://2014.igem.org/Tracks/Policy_Practices ! What is iGEM? http://vimeo.com/44891358 Teams will propose innovative ways of thinking about the ethical, legal, social, economic, biosafety, environmental or biosecurity landscape of synthetic biology. Share the flyer !>> iGEM_P&P_track_flyer_Feb2014

News coverage GenoCAD

Languages written to design synthetic living systems useful for new products, health care. March 13, 2014 by Emily Kale. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140313164524.htm 50 Awesome Open Source Apps You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of.25 October 2010 by Cynthia Harvey. Originally on datamation.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2615454/posts

Development of a domain-specific genetic language to design Chlamydomonas reinhardtii expression vectors

Authors Mandy L Wilson, Sakiko Okumoto, Laura Adam, Jean Peccoud Publication date 2013/11/8 Journal Bioinformatics Volume30 Issue2 Pages 251-257 Abstract Motivation: Expression vectors used in different biotechnology applications are designed with domain-specific rules. For instance, promoters, origins of replication or homologous recombination sites are host-specific. Similarly, chromosomal integration or viral delivery of an expression cassette imposes specific …

[Slides DEFENSE] Mapping Genotype to Phenotype using Attribute Grammar

MAPPING GENOTYPE TO PHENOTYPE USING ATTRIBUTE GRAMMAR Doctoral Dissertation Defense Thursday, July 25th, 2013 – 1:00PM Virginia Bioinformatics Institute – Room 325LAURA ADAM Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Jean Peccoud (Chair) David Bevan, Harold Garner, François Képès, Naren Ramakrishnan, John Tyson Abstract Over the past 10 years, several synthetic biology research groups …

I won the SBOL logo contest

with…. Introduction to SBOL    

News coverage GenoTHREAT

Biosecurity for the Age of Redesigned Life.November 8, 2013 by JOHN DANKOSKY. NPR Science Friday (http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/biosecurity-for-the-age-of-redesigned-life/) iGEM Team Developing Biosecurity Software for Synthetic Genomics.Jul 23, 2010 by Uduak Grace Thomas. (https://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/igem-team-developing-biosecurity-software-synthetic-genomics) Bioinformatics used to detect rogue use of synthetic biology. July 19-20, 2010 by Barry Whyte, Virginia Tech (PR). Biotechniques, Science Blog, e! Science News, R&D Mag, Eurekalert, ScienceDaily, …