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

Energy

• Production of butanol - Alberta 2007
• Efficient pathway for the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll - Berkley LBL 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

Imaging / graphics

• Create a Mexican wave pattern by the change of colors - Turkey 2007 (project 1)

Interaction / cell society

• simulate the competition between two different warrior cell types - Turkey 2007 (project 2)