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Revision as of 20:48, 26 March 2010
Write in which project you will present, your name, and which campus you represent. For example:
- MOWestern/Davidson 2009 project:: Malcolm Campbell:: Davidson
- Cambridge 2009 project:: Michael Rydberg, Nitya Rao, Erin Feeney:: Davidson
- U.C. Berkeley 2009 project:: Anvi Raina, Steph Meador, Linda Kleist:: Davidson
- S.J.T.U. Shanghai 2009 project:: Yihharn Hwang, Stephen Streb, Shashank Suresh:: Davidson
- Stanford 2009 project:: Kris Hendershot, Garrett Smith, Tom Shuman:: Davidson
- NCTU Formosa/WetLab 2009 project:: Clif Davis:: Missouri Western
- Paris 2009 project:: Michel Conn:: Missouri Western
- UCSF 2009 project:: Stacey Holle:: Missouri Western
- Lausanne Switzerland:: Erin Feeney:: Davidson
Contents
Summer 2010 Brain Storming
MWSU will populate the odd numbered ideas and DC will populate the even numbered ideas. Only work on your idea number page and not the entire page to facilitate multiple people working at a given time.
Idea #1
Solving the Knapsack Problem - Take three different genes with degrees of toxicity. How can they be combined without exceeding 100% toxicity (death!)?
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Idea #8
This idea is based on some work by Olivia Ho-Shing (iGEM2009). She has been exploring the possibility of using biological noise to our advantage rather than fighting it.
Olivia is taking an independent study on biological noise and she has collected her resources on a wiki page.
One of her ideas was to produce a device that utilizes a positive feedback to amplify biological noise and kill cells that contain a device that is noisy. For example, imagine some one designs and builds cells that produce the smell of bananas when they reach stationary phase. However, each cell produces a different level of the necessary enzyme and what you want is a uniform population of cells all producing an output at about the same non-zero level.
The Olivilator would be a modular device that could be added to any existing device that utilizes the Lux quorum sensing mechanism. If a particular cells stays inside a band pass filter range of acceptable outputs, the cells live. If they under produce or over produce, then they are killed by the Olivilator.
