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Browsing all the available projects from the past years is becoming a big task. A categorized list of the projects will hopefully provide a better overview making this task easier. This is just a start-up, so please add projects and categories to complete this list. | Browsing all the available projects from the past years is becoming a big task. A categorized list of the projects will hopefully provide a better overview making this task easier. This is just a start-up, so please add projects and categories to complete this list. | ||
=2009 Competition= | |||
==Health & Medicine== | |||
* Restoration and maintenance of homeostasis through oscillations between dampening pathologic inflammation and immunosuppression - [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Stanford Stanford 2009] | |||
==Energy== | |||
* Conversion of lactose into ethanol - [http://2009.igem.org/Team:UNIPV-Pavia Pavia 2009] | |||
==Environment - sensing or remediation == | |||
* Production of color pigments in response to different concentrations of an inducer - [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cambridge Cambridge 2009] | |||
==Information processing== | |||
A cell-to-cell communication system that allows for the propagation of a set of instructions coded onto a plasmid - [http://2009.igem.org/Team:TUDelft TUDelft 2009] | |||
==Foundational research== | |||
* A “bio-screen” of voltage-activated yeast cells, where every “cellular pixel” produces light - [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Valencia Valencia 2009] | |||
==Manufacturing== | |||
* Versatile protein production and delivery platform for targeting the intestine. Modules include drug production, self-encapsulation, and genome deletion. - [http://2009.igem.org/Team:Imperial_College_London Imperial College London 2009] | |||
=2007 Competition= | |||
==Health & Medicine== | ==Health & Medicine== | ||
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*Targeting a specific subset of cells with a virus, based on (m?)RNA or protein expression profiles - [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:Caltech/2007 Caltech 2007] | *Targeting a specific subset of cells with a virus, based on (m?)RNA or protein expression profiles - [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:Caltech/2007 Caltech 2007] | ||
*Repairing damaged heart cells by integrating healthy ES-cell-like cells that are autonomously differentiated towards cardiomyocites into the heart - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Bay_Area_RSI Bay Area RSI 2007] | *Repairing damaged heart cells by integrating healthy ES-cell-like cells that are autonomously differentiated towards cardiomyocites into the heart - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Bay_Area_RSI Bay Area RSI 2007] | ||
* Cancer specific RNAi mediated cell destruction - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Princeton Princeton 2007] | |||
* Phage that select against bacterial resistance (Project 1 of 2) - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Rice Rice 2007] | |||
* Designing a biological system to sense environmental glucose concentration and decrease the level of glucose by releasing insulin - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/NYMU_Taipei 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) - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Harvard Harvard 2007] | |||
* Using an AHL sensor (molecule secreted by biofilm microorganisms) and GFP reporter to detect biofilm formation in catheters. [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Imperial Imperial College London 2007] | |||
==Energy== | ==Energy== | ||
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*Efficient pathway for the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Berkeley_LBL/Project Berkley LBL 2007] | *Efficient pathway for the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Berkeley_LBL/Project Berkley LBL 2007] | ||
*Harvesting cellulose and light to power butanol biosynthesis - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Virginia/Projects Virginia 2007] | *Harvesting cellulose and light to power butanol biosynthesis - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Virginia/Projects Virginia 2007] | ||
*Solar-powered bacterial fuel cell - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Duke/Projects/fc Duke 2007 (4th Project)] | |||
==Environment - sensing or remediation == | ==Environment - sensing or remediation == | ||
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*Quorum-sensing coupled with the repressilator - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/McGill McGill 2007] | *Quorum-sensing coupled with the repressilator - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/McGill McGill 2007] | ||
*A biological breathalyzer - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Missouri_Miners Missouri Miners 2007 (project 2)] | *A biological breathalyzer - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Missouri_Miners Missouri Miners 2007 (project 2)] | ||
* | *A biosensor device for detection of several metals simultaneously - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Prairie_View Prairie View 2007] | ||
* Bioplastics Synthesis - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Duke/Projects/bp Duke 2007 (3rd Project)] | |||
* Integrated Sensor-Executor Proteins and Molecular Switches - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Freiburg Freiburg 2007 (1st Project)] | |||
* Biological radiation sensor (Project 2 of 2) - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/PennState Pennsylvania State 2007] | |||
* Quorumtaxis: combining quorum sensing with chemotaxis (Project 2 of 2) - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Rice Rice 2007] | |||
*Create a copper biosensor, that would sense copper ions in growing media (based on a water sample). - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Saint_Petersburg Saint Petersburg 2007] | |||
*Engineer a strain of bacteria that could produce a signal in response to the presence of cyanide -[http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Southern_Utah 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 - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Glasgow Glasgow 2007] | |||
* Using chemotaxis with a variable inducing ligand to swim up concentration gradients of the ligand. [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Lethbridge Lethbridge 2007] | |||
==Information processing== | ==Information processing== | ||
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*Building a printer of a laser and E.coli producing agarase upon excitation with the laser - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Calgary Calgary 2007] | *Building a printer of a laser and E.coli producing agarase upon excitation with the laser - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Calgary Calgary 2007] | ||
*Create a Mexican wave pattern by the change of colors - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Mexican_Wave Turkey 2007 (project 1)] | *Create a Mexican wave pattern by the change of colors - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Mexican_Wave Turkey 2007 (project 1)] | ||
*Bacterial communication with light - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Duke/Projects/bc Duke 2007 (2nd Project)] | |||
*Division PoPper - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Edinburgh/DivisionPopper Edinburgh 2007 (1st Project)] | |||
* Educate the E.coli System - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/ETHZ ETH Zurich 2007] | |||
* Construct a biological device to imitate the function of the diode - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Tianjin Tianjin 2007] | |||
* Make a bacterial society that follows Pareto's principle as an ant society does - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Tokyo_Tech Tokyo Tech 2007] | |||
* Build a bacterial (E. coli) neural network composed of two cell types - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Toronto Toronto 2007] | |||
==Foundational research== | ==Foundational research== | ||
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* Simulate the competition between two different warrior cell types - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Chase_Simulator Turkey 2007 (project 2)] | * Simulate the competition between two different warrior cell types - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Chase_Simulator Turkey 2007 (project 2)] | ||
* Model the dynamics of the spread of an epidemic within a population - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Virginia_Tech/Project Virginia_Tech 2007] | * Model the dynamics of the spread of an epidemic within a population - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Virginia_Tech/Project Virginia_Tech 2007] | ||
* Electric field-activated transcription factor [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Duke/Projects/efatf Duke 2007 (1st Project)] | * Electric field-activated transcription factor - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Duke/Projects/efatf Duke 2007 (1st Project)] | ||
* Self Flavouring Yoghurt - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Edinburgh/Yoghurt Edinburgh 2007 (2nd Project)] | |||
* Biobrick compatible strategy for fusion proteins - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Freiburg Freiburg 2007 (2nd Project)] | |||
* Fluorescent activity assay of RING Ubiquitin Ligase - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Mississippi_State Mississippi State University 2007] | |||
* Design of a Synthetic Multicellular Bacterium - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Paris Paris 2007] | |||
* Towards differentiating cells within a bacterial colony - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Peking_The_Projects Peking 2007] | |||
* Elimination of diauxic growth (Project 1 of 2) - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/PennState Pennsylvania State 2007] | |||
* A game of Bacterial warfare - [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Purdue 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. [http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Melbourne Melbourne 2007] |
Latest revision as of 14:11, 9 April 2010
Browsing all the available projects from the past years is becoming a big task. A categorized list of the projects will hopefully provide a better overview making this task easier. This is just a start-up, so please add projects and categories to complete this list.
2009 Competition
Health & Medicine
- Restoration and maintenance of homeostasis through oscillations between dampening pathologic inflammation and immunosuppression - Stanford 2009
Energy
- Conversion of lactose into ethanol - Pavia 2009
Environment - sensing or remediation
- Production of color pigments in response to different concentrations of an inducer - Cambridge 2009
Information processing
A cell-to-cell communication system that allows for the propagation of a set of instructions coded onto a plasmid - TUDelft 2009
Foundational research
- A “bio-screen” of voltage-activated yeast cells, where every “cellular pixel” produces light - Valencia 2009
Manufacturing
- Versatile protein production and delivery platform for targeting the intestine. Modules include drug production, self-encapsulation, and genome deletion. - Imperial College London 2009
2007 Competition
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