IGEM:MIT/2005/Day 1 Discussion


 * What not to do? Complicated or feasible?  Taking something to completion seems important.
 * Last year's teams spent half the summer just playing around. Would rather not do that.  Deadlines.  Let's get this working.  Intermediate steps.
 * Inevitable that, since we're doing something that's never been done before, that we'll have to experiment blindly.
 * If components exist that are known to work... let's use those...
 * Finding Nemo thing. Awesome (potentially complicated).
 * Will would like to explore the structural capabilities of E.coli. Can we construct a clot of cells that is a "shape."
 * Propogate a signal in space, as opposed to moving the cells.
 * Do we want to make something that's snazzy or useful (these aren't
 * Eat plaque (could start with simpler system. decouple the problem).
 * Bacteria that can detect levels of glucose, and then produce insulin.
 * Re-writing yeast chromosome
 * Would like to work in yeast, what can you do in yeast.
 * Degrading whatever we don't want...
 * Bioremediation (eat oil)
 * Battery. Photosynthesis -> Energy
 * Current Solar Cells fabrication is environmentally damaging.
 * Living solar cell could have a lot of good applications.
 * Chemical -> Electricity Converter
 * Light driven water purification (use light to make ATP, use ATP to power segreation of ion and other pollutants in water
 * Dewatering of maple syrup?
 * Question. How to connect ATP production to some effector.
 * Vitamin A expression in rice. What about mulit-vitamin rice
 * Etch-a-Sketch, graphing calculator (slit, metrin, robo system from nervous system development).
 * Chemical signaling between two mamallian cells. E.g., how does a cell know to stop growing?
 * Study aging. When and how do cells talk to each other, what do they say?