IGEM:IMPERIAL/2008/Projects
From OpenWetWare
Jump to navigationJump to search
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
Biomaterials
Biomaterials project ideas page
Motility/Construction Methods
Mobility and Magnetism project ideas page.