Ellis:iGEM

A list of all previous iGEM projects

The Ellis Lab will try to curate a list of past iGEM projects and eventually note who were the winners each year and have links to the wikis and posters for each team. This could take some time but hopefully will be a useful database for future teams to see what has be tried before and where it ended up. Enjoy reading.

iGEM 2007 Competition

(Taken from http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:Projects_categorized)

Health & Medicine

• A synthetic biology approach against HIV - Ljubljana 2007
• Cost-effective red blood cell substitute constructed from engineered E. coli bacteria - Berkley UC 2007
• Targeting a specific subset of cells with a virus, based on (m?)RNA or protein expression profiles - Caltech 2007
• Repairing damaged heart cells by integrating healthy ES-cell-like cells that are autonomously differentiated towards cardiomyocites into the heart - Bay Area RSI 2007
• Cancer specific RNAi mediated cell destruction - Princeton 2007
• Phage that select against bacterial resistance (Project 1 of 2) - Rice 2007
• Designing a biological system to sense environmental glucose concentration and decrease the level of glucose by releasing insulin - Taipei 2007
• Using bacteria to bind to targeted cells in a body, and under influence of enough bacteria (quorum sensing) evoke a desired response (like: kill the bad cell) - Harvard 2007
• Using an AHL sensor (molecule secreted by biofilm microorganisms) and GFP reporter to detect biofilm formation in catheters. Imperial College London 2007

Energy

• Production of butanol - Alberta 2007
• Efficient pathway for the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll - Berkley LBL 2007
• Harvesting cellulose and light to power butanol biosynthesis - Virginia 2007
• Solar-powered bacterial fuel cell - Duke 2007 (4th Project)

Environment - sensing or remediation

• A yeast sensor for real extra virgin olive oil - TIGEM - University of Naples 2007
• Cellular lead sensor - Brown 2007 (project 1)
• Sense and remove Mercury ions from contaminated water through a two cell system - MIT 2007
• A microbial biosensor device assembled with ion channels for iron detection under UV irradiation and different levels of oxygen - Colombia-Israel 2007
• Quorum-sensing coupled with the repressilator - McGill 2007
• A biological breathalyzer - Missouri Miners 2007 (project 2)
• A biosensor device for detection of several metals simultaneously - Prairie View 2007
• Bioplastics Synthesis - Duke 2007 (3rd Project)
• Integrated Sensor-Executor Proteins and Molecular Switches - Freiburg 2007 (1st Project)
• Biological radiation sensor (Project 2 of 2) - Pennsylvania State 2007
• Quorumtaxis: combining quorum sensing with chemotaxis (Project 2 of 2) - Rice 2007
• Create a copper biosensor, that would sense copper ions in growing media (based on a water sample). - Saint Petersburg 2007
• Engineer a strain of bacteria that could produce a signal in response to the presence of cyanide -Southern Utah 2007
• Using a sensor for organic pollutants coupled to electron carriers/export as reporter in an electrode setting allowing for the use of electrical measurements for presence of pollutants - Glasgow 2007
• Using chemotaxis with a variable inducing ligand to swim up concentration gradients of the ligand. Lethbridge 2007

Information processing

• Realization of a genetic circuit able to implement the functionality typical of a Schmitt Trigger - University of Bologna 2007
• Tristable switch - Brown 2007 (project 2)
• Divide-by-two circuit - Michigan 2007
• A biological timer - Missouri Miners 2007 (project 1)
• Manipulate E. coli into mathematics problem solvers - Davidson Missouri 2007
• Provide a new method for building up a fully extensible bio-logic circuit in bacteria - USTC 2007
• Create a device which behaviour resembles an electronic comparator - Valencia 2007
• The goal of this project is to design a circuit element called a half adder - Waterloo 2007
• Proof of the bottum-up designer strategy applied by synthetic biologists. Done by measuring responses in an open- or closed-loop response system - Bangalore 2007
• Building a printer of a laser and E.coli producing agarase upon excitation with the laser - Calgary 2007
• Create a Mexican wave pattern by the change of colors - Turkey 2007 (project 1)
• Bacterial communication with light - Duke 2007 (2nd Project)
• Division PoPper - Edinburgh 2007 (1st Project)
• Educate the E.coli System - ETH Zurich 2007
• Construct a biological device to imitate the function of the diode - Tianjin 2007
• Make a bacterial society that follows Pareto's principle as an ant society does - Tokyo Tech 2007
• Build a bacterial (E. coli) neural network composed of two cell types - Toronto 2007

Foundational research

• Explore artificial transcription factor (ATF), a trans-regulatory element, for controlling genes - Wisconsin 2007
• Using a protein scaffold to rewire a MAP kinase signalling pathway - UCSF 2007 (project 1)
• Building a new organelle for synthetic biology - UCSF 2007 (project 2)
• Directed evolution by error-prone PCR and screening methods - Boston University 2007
• Marimo-ish gathering of bacteria - Chiba 2007
• Engineering fruit fly behavior by remote activation of neurons involved in reward and punishment - CSHL 2007
• Transport specific metal ions from a specific location to another on the surface of engineered bacterial cells - Turkey 2007 (project 3)
• Simulate the competition between two different warrior cell types - Turkey 2007 (project 2)
• Model the dynamics of the spread of an epidemic within a population - Virginia_Tech 2007
• Electric field-activated transcription factor - Duke 2007 (1st Project)
• Self Flavouring Yoghurt - Edinburgh 2007 (2nd Project)
• Biobrick compatible strategy for fusion proteins - Freiburg 2007 (2nd Project)
• Fluorescent activity assay of RING Ubiquitin Ligase - Mississippi State University 2007
• Design of a Synthetic Multicellular Bacterium - Paris 2007
• Towards differentiating cells within a bacterial colony - Peking 2007
• Elimination of diauxic growth (Project 1 of 2) - Pennsylvania State 2007
• A game of Bacterial warfare - Purdue University 2007
• Formation of E.coli scaffolds by making cells join. This is achieved by pointing two light beams at the cells which induces adhesion to each other. Melbourne 2007