IGEM:Projects categorized

Browsing all the available projects from the past years is becoming a big task. A categorized list of the projects will hopefully provide a better overview making this task easier. This is just a start-up, so please add projects and categories to complete this list.

=2009 Competition=

Health & Medicine

 * Restoration and maintenance of homeostasis through oscillations between dampening pathologic inflammation and immunosuppression - Stanford 2009

Energy

 * Conversion of lactose into ethanol - Pavia 2009

Environment - sensing or remediation

 * Production of color pigments in response to different concentrations of an inducer - Cambridge 2009

Information processing
A cell-to-cell communication system that allows for the propagation of a set of instructions coded onto a plasmid - TUDelft 2009

Foundational research

 * A “bio-screen” of voltage-activated yeast cells, where every “cellular pixel” produces light - Valencia 2009

Manufacturing

 * Versatile protein production and delivery platform for targeting the intestine. Modules include drug production, self-encapsulation, and genome deletion. - Imperial College London 2009

=2007 Competition=

Health & Medicine

 * A synthetic biology approach against HIV - Ljubljana 2007
 * Cost-effective red blood cell substitute constructed from engineered E. coli bacteria - Berkley UC 2007
 * Targeting a specific subset of cells with a virus, based on (m?)RNA or protein expression profiles - Caltech 2007
 * Repairing damaged heart cells by integrating healthy ES-cell-like cells that are autonomously differentiated towards cardiomyocites into the heart - Bay Area RSI 2007
 * Cancer specific RNAi mediated cell destruction - Princeton 2007
 * Phage that select against bacterial resistance (Project 1 of 2) - Rice 2007
 * Designing a biological system to sense environmental glucose concentration and decrease the level of glucose by releasing insulin - Taipei 2007
 * Using bacteria to bind to targeted cells in a body, and under influence of enough bacteria (quorum sensing) evoke a desired response (like: kill the bad cell) - Harvard 2007
 * Using an AHL sensor (molecule secreted by biofilm microorganisms) and GFP reporter to detect biofilm formation in catheters. Imperial College London 2007

Energy

 * Production of butanol - Alberta 2007
 * Efficient pathway for the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll - Berkley LBL 2007
 * Harvesting cellulose and light to power butanol biosynthesis - Virginia 2007
 * Solar-powered bacterial fuel cell - Duke 2007 (4th Project)

Environment - sensing or remediation

 * A yeast sensor for real extra virgin olive oil - TIGEM - University of Naples 2007
 * Cellular lead sensor - Brown 2007 (project 1)
 * Sense and remove Mercury ions from contaminated water through a two cell system - MIT 2007
 * A microbial biosensor device assembled with ion channels for iron detection under UV irradiation and different levels of oxygen - Colombia-Israel 2007
 * Quorum-sensing coupled with the repressilator - McGill 2007
 * A biological breathalyzer - Missouri Miners 2007 (project 2)
 * A biosensor device for detection of several metals simultaneously - Prairie View 2007
 * Bioplastics Synthesis - Duke 2007 (3rd Project)
 * Integrated Sensor-Executor Proteins and Molecular Switches - Freiburg 2007 (1st Project)
 * Biological radiation sensor (Project 2 of 2) - Pennsylvania State 2007
 * Quorumtaxis: combining quorum sensing with chemotaxis (Project 2 of 2) - Rice 2007
 * Create a copper biosensor, that would sense copper ions in growing media (based on a water sample). - Saint Petersburg 2007
 * Engineer a strain of bacteria that could produce a signal in response to the presence of cyanide -Southern Utah 2007
 * Using a sensor for organic pollutants coupled to electron carriers/export as reporter in an electrode setting allowing for the use of electrical measurements for presence of pollutants - Glasgow 2007
 * Using chemotaxis with a variable inducing ligand to swim up concentration gradients of the ligand. Lethbridge 2007

Information processing

 * Realization of a genetic circuit able to implement the functionality typical of a Schmitt Trigger - University of Bologna 2007
 * Tristable switch - Brown 2007 (project 2)
 * Divide-by-two circuit - Michigan 2007
 * A biological timer - Missouri Miners 2007 (project 1)
 * Manipulate E. coli into mathematics problem solvers - Davidson Missouri 2007
 * Provide a new method for building up a fully extensible bio-logic circuit in bacteria - USTC 2007
 * Create a device which behaviour resembles an electronic comparator - Valencia 2007
 * The goal of this project is to design a circuit element called a half adder - Waterloo 2007
 * Proof of the bottum-up designer strategy applied by synthetic biologists. Done by measuring responses in an open- or closed-loop response system - Bangalore 2007
 * Building a printer of a laser and E.coli producing agarase upon excitation with the laser - Calgary 2007
 * Create a Mexican wave pattern by the change of colors - Turkey 2007 (project 1)
 * Bacterial communication with light - Duke 2007 (2nd Project)
 * Division PoPper - Edinburgh 2007 (1st Project)
 * Educate the E.coli System - ETH Zurich 2007
 * Construct a biological device to imitate the function of the diode - Tianjin 2007
 * Make a bacterial society that follows Pareto's principle as an ant society does - Tokyo Tech 2007
 * Build a bacterial (E. coli) neural network composed of two cell types - Toronto 2007

Foundational research

 * Explore artificial transcription factor (ATF), a trans-regulatory element, for controlling genes - Wisconsin 2007
 * Using a protein scaffold to rewire a MAP kinase signalling pathway - UCSF 2007 (project 1)
 * Building a new organelle for synthetic biology - UCSF 2007 (project 2)
 * Directed evolution by error-prone PCR and screening methods - Boston University 2007
 * Marimo-ish gathering of bacteria - Chiba 2007
 * Engineering fruit fly behavior by remote activation of neurons involved in reward and punishment - CSHL 2007
 * Transport specific metal ions from a specific location to another on the surface of engineered bacterial cells - Turkey 2007 (project 3)
 * Simulate the competition between two different warrior cell types - Turkey 2007 (project 2)
 * Model the dynamics of the spread of an epidemic within a population - Virginia_Tech 2007
 * Electric field-activated transcription factor - Duke 2007 (1st Project)
 * Self Flavouring Yoghurt - Edinburgh 2007 (2nd Project)
 * Biobrick compatible strategy for fusion proteins - Freiburg 2007 (2nd Project)
 * Fluorescent activity assay of RING Ubiquitin Ligase - Mississippi State University 2007
 * Design of a Synthetic Multicellular Bacterium - Paris 2007
 * Towards differentiating cells within a bacterial colony - Peking 2007
 * Elimination of diauxic growth (Project 1 of 2) - Pennsylvania State 2007
 * A game of Bacterial warfare - Purdue University 2007
 * Formation of E.coli scaffolds by making cells join. This is achieved by pointing two light beams at the cells which induces adhesion to each other. Melbourne 2007