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Team:Edinburgh
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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.
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| Wiring What is metabolic wiring? Click here to hear about the bacterial computation, the benefits it offers, and how metabolic wiring makes it all possible. |
Human Practices What can our smart bacterial friends tell us about the way human teams work? Are iGEM teams any smarter than a population of smart bacteria? |
Modelling Why do an experiment when a computer can work out the result? Click here to learn about the models we used, the programs we created, and our collaboration with UCL. |
The Team
 Anna Biologist |
 Carrie Biologist |
 Cesar Informatician |
 Charlotte Biologist |
 Chiara Biologist |
 Elize Engineer |
 Philip Biologist |
 Rikki Informatician |
 Sam Biologist |
 Yuma Biologist |
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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
School of Engineering
School of Biological Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
