Team:Edinburgh

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Our aims

In order to improve globally equality, both monetary and medically, the accessibility of new technologies is imperative. Our project designed a intercellular communication and control system that could be used to stabilise the composition of dynamic population of bacteria. This would simplify the use of complicated biological systems such as microbial consortia.

The Team

Anna Biologist	Carrie Biologist	Cesar Informatician	Charlotte Biologist
Chiara Biomedical Scientist	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.


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.	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?	Art and Outreach Learn about some novel ways in which we tried to get the message out about our project.

Our Sponsors

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-<p>Microbial consortia are the next step in advancement for synthetic biology. Large advances such as self regulating populations of bacteria and the production and destruction of highly complicated biological products are the aim of the field. To be able to build not only a single organism but an entire networking system of organisms with modular components requires specific criteria and components. We sought to expand the possibilities for this field through our project.</p>
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