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Our projects concern with the ability for bacterial cells to '''differentiate''' out of homogeneous conditions into populations with the '''division of labor'''. We aim at devices conferring host cells with the ability to form cooperating groups spontaneously and to take consecutive steps sequentially even when the genetic background and environmental inputs are identical. To break the mirror in such homogeneous condition, we need two devices respectively responsible for '''temporal''' and '''spatial''' differentiation. The implementation and application of such devices will lead to a picture of future bioengineering where complex programs consisted of sequential steps (structure oriented programs) and cooperating agencies (forked instances of a single class, object and event oriented) can be embedded in a single genome. | |||
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About the name of projects, the two devices are named after their respective functions: hop count and push-on-push-off switch, but they are common for breaking symmetry, which is interesting and ubiquitous in science. Although this "differentiation" process resemble the development of multicellular organism, we tend to use a more bioengineering style analogy: assembly line. Or maybe after some years from now, this will not be just an analogy. <br> | |||
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There are<html> <script language="JAVASCRIPT"><!-- update your browser, silly--> Today = new Date(); Jamboree = new Date("November 3, 2007"); msInADay = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24; display = Math.floor((Jamboree.getTime() - Today.getTime())/msInADay); document.write(" " + display +" "); // </script> </html>days left until the Jamboree! Towards Self-differentiated Bacterial Assembly Line Our projects concern with the ability for bacterial cells to differentiate out of homogeneous conditions into populations with the division of labor. We aim at devices conferring host cells with the ability to form cooperating groups spontaneously and to take consecutive steps sequentially even when the genetic background and environmental inputs are identical. To break the mirror in such homogeneous condition, we need two devices respectively responsible for temporal and spatial differentiation. The implementation and application of such devices will lead to a picture of future bioengineering where complex programs consisted of sequential steps (structure oriented programs) and cooperating agencies (forked instances of a single class, object and event oriented) can be embedded in a single genome.
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IGEM 2007 Peking | Peking The Projects | Peking The Team | Peking's Misc & Fun | Our OWW | Acknowledgement |
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<html> <img src="http://openwetware.org/images/e/e2/Icon_info.png" alt="News" border="0"> </html>LabProducts and Parts Procedures Protocols
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<html> <img src="http://openwetware.org/images/3/39/Icon_groups.png" alt="People"> </html>PeopleThe iGEM 2007 PKU Team now consists of about 20 students and several faculty members from School of Life Science and Center of Theoretical Biology. Students
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Email us at igem-pku AT googlegroups DOT com
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