Bio-Math Connections January - May 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

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

This is idea number one...

Idea #4

Our idea is to engineer heat producing E.coli and use them in wetsuits for rescue divers and hyperthermia victims. We need to find an inhibitor for the calcium to prevent them from closing. This would produce a non-stop cycle that would produce heat. This is present in some humans with malignant hyperthermia and blue fin tuna. We could study the tuna to find a possible protein or enzyme that enables this cycle. Another alernative is to de-flaggelate E. coli and have continious chemotaxis. This would produce heat as ATP would be constantly consumed. Keeping the e. coli alive: The challange would be to find a way to keep these E. coli alive. A possibility is haivng pockets of agar that could provide nutrients to E. coli.

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