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Regulation of Bacterial Chemotaxis

  • Use two attractants whose receptors are inducible (serine with Tar, aspartate with Tsr). These define two orthogonal axes. Use a default attractant along a diagonal to establish '-' movement. Immediate goals: To establish substrate geometries upon which multiple reproducible, stable, quantitative chemical gradients can be established; to validate default chemotaxis in the absence of MCP receptors.
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Synchronization of bacterial cell cycles

  • Synchronization of bacterial cell cycles. Use a cell cycle-dependent promoter to drive a LuxI-LuxR based cell-cell signal. Use regulation of replication initiator DnaA to modulate cell cycle in receiver cells. Immediate goals: To determine if candidate promoters oscillate; to regulate DnaA levels.
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Monitoring long-term effects of UV exposure

  • Analysis of stress responses in biofilms. Connect stress response system to a lac based bistable GFP reporter. This allows transient expression at a stress-response promoter to trigger persistent expression of GFP. Immediate goals: To standardize biofilm assay; to design other experiments in which such a construct would be useful, especially using a cell-sorter.
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