IGEM:Projects categorized

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.

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

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

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

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)

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
• Engineering fruit fly behavior by remote activation of neurons involved in reward and punishment - CSHL
• 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