IGEM:TUDelft/Brainstorm

Brainstorm area

Some ideas posted by other teams can be found at the Idea exchange page.

Information processing

Schmitt trigger

Bologna worked on a Schmitt trigger last year (University of Bologna 2007). Domenico already gave an explanation about this device. The project is also very well documented so have a look at their site. More about the Schmitt trigger can be found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger).

What can be done with a Schmitt trigger?

• Create some kind of oscillator - I think Domenico also mentioned this already.

Flip-flop

An digital circuit that can remember it's last state and is thereby capable of storing one bit of information. It could be interesting to make a genetic circuit that can do the same. ([1], [2] )

Other interesting stuff

• Somewhere I read something about this 'magnetic' bacteria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotactic_bacteria) - maybe this can be used for orientation/movement. This organism is already successfully used to produce electrical energy.

Favourite projects

Filippo Menolascina

• University of Bologna 2007
• TIGEM - University of Naples 2007
• University of Tsinghua 2007

Domenico Bellomo

• University of Bologna 2007
• University of Edinburgh 2007
• TIGEM - University of Naples 2007

Bastiaan

• Alberta 2007
• Ljubljana 2007
• Davidson Missouri 2007

Emrah

• ETH-Zurich 2007
• Taipei 2007
• Turkey 2007

Farzad Ehtemam

• Imperial College 2007