SynBERC is pleased to make its Principles of Synthetic Biology course freely available to the synthetic biology community. The lectures and slides are available here:

Principles of Synthetic Biology lecture videos and slides
(see lecture listing below to find a specific topic)

This bi-coastal course, first taught at UC Berkeley and MIT by Adam Arkin and Ron Weiss in Fall 2010, has four main objectives:

1. to introduce the basics of Synthetic Biology, including quantitative cellular network characterization and modeling,
2. to introduce the principles of discovery and genetic factoring of useful cellular activities into reusable functions for design,
3. to inculcate the principles of biomolecular system design and diagnosis of designed systems, and 
4. to illustrate cutting-edge applications in Synthetic Biology and to enhance skills in analyzing and designing synthetic biological applications.

screenshot from Principles of Synthetic Biology course

This course listing below shows the lecture topics for available videos.The course is now being converted into a textbook, which we hope will be available in 2013. For more information, please contact us.

Principles of Synthetic Biology course listing