Team:Edinburgh/temp
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RewirED
Smart bacteria could be the computers of the future – but first we have to wire them together. This year Edinburgh is excited to introduce metabolic wiring to iGEM, a novel way for connecting logic gates in different bacterial strains.
The Team
![]() Anna - Biologist |
![]() Carrie - Biologist |
![]() Cesar - Informatician |
![]() Charlotte - Biologist |
![]() Chiara - Biologist |
![]() Elize - Engineer |
![]() Philip - Biologist |
![]() Rikki - Informatician |
![]() Sam - Biologist |
![]() Yuma - Biologist |
Our Project
Metabolic wires are a new way of connecting logic gates in different cells – their orthogonality and extensibility means there is potentially no limit to how intelligent a population of bacteria can be.
We set out to make three sets of metabolic wires, using trans-genic aromatic enzymes, cis-genic aromatic genes, and ‘sugar logic.’ We also set out to build a population regulation system to showcase these wires, and a new set of degrons to make the system more robust.
Our Sponsors
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School of Engineering
School of Biological Sciences
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School of Biological Sciences