User:Mbennie/Notebook/Papers and Books/Ron Weiss

Pattern-Formation pmid=15858574
 * Built three types of cells that express fluorescent protein when presented with a certain concentration of autoinducer (high, medium, low)
 * Mixture of cells can produce a bullseye when a sender cell is place in the middle
 * Bi-directional communication might be an interesting topic to investigate
 * Use same mechanism, but make cells express different protein such as adhesin (cells only stick together when they detect autoinducer)

Directed-evolution pmid=12451174
 * Paper discusses purposely mutating pathways to optimize genetic circuits
 * Fluorescent screening used to discover which mutations made the nonfunctional gate work as intended
 * Good method, but no apparent future work