SynBERC:MoreTestbeds

There were several proposals for new testbeds:

Possible Testbeds

 * 1) Counter -> Computer (Endy lab)
 * 2) Safe strains (Farren Isaacs, Church lab)
 * 3) *Kill switches
 * 4) *Could incorporate a counter
 * 5) Energy (Keasling, BP)
 * 6) *How can we contribute to this research agenda?

Other suggestions
Feel free to add/edit this list.
 * 1) Counter
 * 2) Scented bacteria
 * 3) Plant endosymbiot
 * 4) Virtual OS
 * 5) Free-living nitrogen fixers
 * 6) Materials science (bio-materials)
 * 7) Genome upload/download
 * 8) Genetic stability and instability
 * 9) Kill switch hooked up to a counter
 * 10) Make use of unnatural AA
 * 11) Chassis for protein expression, limit incorporation of strange AAs
 * 12) Enhance E.coli for DNA manipulation
 * 13) Bio-remediation
 * 14) Waste management
 * 15) Changing cell membrane composition
 * 16) Engineer cellular communities
 * 17) Introduce recombination sites into E.coli to shuffle genomes on command – faster genome recombination.
 * 18) E.coli that doubles every 10 mins – divide the chromosome in half. One off oriC and one at F plasmid.
 * 19) Running systems at stationary phase.
 * 20) Select for E.coli that are longer
 * 21) Refactored E.coli
 * 22) Yeast recombination system in E.coli
 * 23) In vivo SNP detection system.