CONFERENCE: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Synthetic Biology Course-July 27-August 10, 2015

合成生物学是一个快速发展的多学科研究领域，依赖于生物学，工程学，数学，化学和物理学专业知识的整合。该领域使用理论和工程原理来推进基本的生物学理解和开发生物启发的产品。今天合成生物学的挑战是，跨学科的专业知识往往是最小的，而对各种基础领域的基本理解是促进成功合作的关键。本课程（2015年7月27日至8月10日）通过冷泉港暑期课程教育计划提供代表了一个重大的努力，以满足这一需求。该系列讲座包括实验室暴露在实验和理论合成生物学的前沿进展。该课程的结构，以激励参与者分享他们的知识与同事在他们的家乡机构，这可能会激发更广泛的系统和合成生物学课程和课程开发。本课程将有助于推进一门新兴的跨学科科学，除了提供对生物学复杂性的见解外，还将激发创新，为许多当前和即将到来的社会需求提供关键解决方案。该课程满足了跨学科研究队伍发展的重要需求，该队伍更了解可以从跨学科合作中实现的机会，包括学生和专家之间的有效沟通。该教材包括前沿培训等领域的理论和CRISPR技术的使用，以改变复杂的生物系统的基因组;在无细胞转录-翻译（TX-TL）方法的熟练程度;快速分子克隆使用金门组装方法;并获得计算生物学的基本理解使用常微分方程。此外，该课程将提供会议，以开发特定的生物传感器代谢工程。

Synthetic biology is a rapidly expanding multi-disciplinary research area that relies on the integration of expertise in biology, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, and physics. This field uses theoretical and engineering principles to advance fundamental biological understanding and develop bio-inspired products. The challenge of synthetic biology today is that interdisciplinary expertise is often minimal, whereas a basic comprehension of the various underlying fields is crucial to foster successful collaborations. This course (July 27 - August 10, 2015) offered through the Cold Spring Harbor summer course educational program represents a significant effort to address this need. The series of lectures include laboratory exposure to cutting edge advances in experimental and theoretical synthetic biology. The course is structured to motivate the participants to share their knowledge with colleagues at their home institutions, which may inspire more broadly a systems and synthetic biology course and curriculum development. This course will help advance an emerging interdisciplinary science that, in addition to providing insights into the complexity of biology, will also inspire innovations that can provide critical solutions for many current and impending societal needs. The course fulfills an important need for development of an interdisciplinary research workforce that is more aware of the opportunities that can be realized from interdisciplinary collaborations including effective communication between students and experts. The teaching material includes cutting edge training in such areas as the theory and use of CRISPR technology to alter the genome of complex biological systems; proficiency in cell-free transcription-translation (TX-TL) methods; rapid molecular cloning using the Golden Gate assembly method; and gaining fundamental understanding of computational biology using ordinary differential equations. In addition, the course will provide sessions to develop specific biosensors for metabolic engineering.