SynBERC:MoreTestbeds

There were several proposals for new testbeds:

Possible Testbeds

1. Counter -> Computer (Endy lab)
2. Safe strains (Farren Isaacs, Church lab)
   • Kill switches
   • Could incorporate a counter
3. Energy (Keasling, BP)
   • 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.