IGEM:PennState/2006

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The bacterial relay race takes advantage of an ability to control cellular motility using inducible promoters such as those involved in nutrient catabolism or quorum sensing. “Receiver” bacteria move in response to small-molecule signals either added to the system or originating from motile, “sender” strains. The most significant challenges relating to this project stem from difficulties of tightly controlling the target motility gene motB. Low levels of motB expression result in system failure (constitutive motility), and resolving this issue is essential to developing reliable modular systems that are the hallmark of synthetic biology. If you are interested in joining the team click here.

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 >People

Undergraduate Team


 * Jon Badalamenti
 * Lucien Weiss
 * Galen Lynch
 * Chris Buckno
 * Joel Q. Grim
 * Ralph Sandoval
 * Barbara Andersen
 * Jen Dunning
 * Natalie Shewski
 * John Bigus
 * Aleksandr Lewicki
 * Elizabeth Morin
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Yan Shipelskiy

<h2 style="color: #C5D1D7">Affiliated Grad Students
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Steve Walker
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Deepti Tanjore

<h2 style="color: #C5D1D7">Faculty
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Tom Richard
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Pat Cirino
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Will Hancock
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Darryl Farber
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Ming Tien
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Paul Weiss

<h2 style="color: #C5D1D7">Graduated Team Members
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Lane J. Weaver
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Tony Tascone
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Steve Neuman

<h2 style="color: #C5D1D7">Photos
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Lab Photos
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Team Member Photos
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Motility Assay Results
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Graphics

<h2 style="color: #C5D1D7">Lab Notebooks
 * <font color="#FFFFFF">Lucien Weiss

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<font color="#646B86" size="6">>Project

<h2 style="color: #D16349">Publications


 * <font color="#000000">Synthetic Sports: A Bacterial Relay Race
 * <font color="#000000">PSU iGEM Posters

<h2 style="color: #D16349">News


 * <font color="#000000">Website Tasks

<h2 style="color: #D16349">Protocols


 * <font color="#000000">Cloning
 * <font color="#000000">Preparing chemically competent cells
 * <font color="#000000">Growing Parts
 * <font color="#000000">Restriction
 * <font color="#000000">Ligation
 * <font color="#000000">Transformation
 * <font color="#000000">Plate-reading
 * <font color="#000000">Motility-assays
 * <font color="#000000">Microchannel
 * <font color="#000000">Strain Construction
 * <font color="#000000">Inventory
 * <font color="#000000">DNA Gel
 * <font color="#000000">Growth Media
 * <font color="#000000">LB Plates
 * <font color="#000000">Eiken Agar Plates

<h2 style="color:#D16349">Progress
 * <font color="#000000">Submitted Registry Parts
 * <font color="#000000">Strain-Construction Progress
 * <font color="#000000">Microchannels results
 * <font color="#000000">Motility results

<h2 style="color: #D16349">Background
 * <font color="#000000">Development of the Ecoli Relay Race
 * Wikipedia: Relay Race

<h2 style="color: #D16349">Links
 * iGEM on OpenWetWare
 * Parts registry
 * iGEM wiki
 * Penn State iGEM 2005
 * Penn State iGEM 2006