IGEM:IMPERIAL/2008/Projects

7th July Brainstorming

Inputs

• Chemical – Various examples given including; gases; heavy metals; illegal drugs; metabolites and other Nutrients.
• Time
• Magnetism
• Radioactivity
• Sound/Noise
• Infections
• Electrical
• Humidity
• pH
• Population Density / Growth Phase
• Adhesion
• Pressure

Outputs

• Fluorescence
• Chemotaxis / Cell movement
• Optical Density – Changes in cell density
• Smell
• pH
• Dyes (e.g. via enzymatic conversion)
• Secretion of protein or other molecules
• Proliferation
• Electrical
• Temperature
• Death – Cell suicide by apoptosis
• Adhesion
• Expression of proteins e.g. Anti-bodies, invasin (an invasion protein), detergents

Applications

• Bireactor Homeostatis = Regulate environment of a biorector e.g. temperature, pH
• MRSA killer = Detect and kill biofilm and other infectious bacteria
• Blood Filters
• Bioremediation / Filtering Water
• Desalination
• Sewage treatment = To convert to bi-product hydrogen sulphide into the valuable product sulphur
• Pathogen Protection/symbiosis for crops and plants e.g. nitrogen fixation
• LDL/plaque digester

8th July Brainstorming

Please can each group add any information they find to the links below;

B. subtilis Chassis

B. subtilis Chassis page

Biomaterials

Biomaterials project ideas page

Motility/Construction Methods

Mobility and Magnetism project ideas page.

Wall-E.coli

Wall-E.coli project page