How to experimentally verify these ideas? Synthetic Biology Build your own designed network from scratch and test your model Examples for synthetic genetic switches Isaacs et al. Prediction and measurement of an autoregulatory genetic module. PNAS 100, 7714 (2003) Gardner et al. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403, 399(2000)How to experimentally verify these ideas ? Synthetic Biology Build your own designed network ‘from scratch’ and test your model Examples for synthetic genetic switches: Isaacs et al. Prediction and measurement of an autoregulatory genetic module. PNAS 100, 7714 (2003) Gardner et al. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403, 399 (2000)