Synthetic Cell Technology
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Lecturer |
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2SWS Lecture 2SWS Lab work
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Dr. Lado Otrin und Dr. Nika Otrin |
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Lecture Language: English.
Audience: Biosystemtechnik, Medizintechnik, Molekulare Biosysteme
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Requirements:
- Basic knowledge on biological engineering
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Contents:
- Introduction to cells
- Introduction to SynBio
- Top-down and bottom-up SynBio approaches
- Discussion on the abstraction of “life” and “living matter”, defining characteristics of living matter
- Modular design and bottom-up construction of artificial cells and organelles
- Analysis of the existing state-of-the-art functional modules and organelles facilitating compartmentalization, energy regeneration, metabolic conversions, growth, division, signaling and motility of artificial cells
- Augmentation of biological material with synthetic building blocks (polymers, nanoparticles, catalysts, etc.)
- Introduction to essential technologies and methodologies related to the construction of artificial cells (preparation of various compartments and encapsulation, membrane fusion, reconstitution of membrane proteins, microfluidics, etc.)
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