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| - | This summer, MIT's iGEM 2006 team is developing bacteria that smell pleasant. We have inserted several genes into bacterial genomes to make the cells produce a wintergreen and/or a banana scent. Scents can act as natural biological tags and have many extended applications. By attaching the scent tag to a case-sensitive promoter, we | + | This summer, MIT's iGEM 2006 team is developing bacteria that smell pleasant. We have inserted several genes into bacterial genomes to make the cells produce a wintergreen and/or a banana scent. Scents can act as natural biological tags and have many extended applications. By attaching the scent tag to a case-sensitive promoter, we engineered a cellular system to report on environmental conditions. Also, since ''E. coli'' naturally produce a fecal smelling compound, we feel that our system will be useful to scientists worldwide as it will make lab work with ''E. coli'' bacteria a little less painful. Other bacteria are responsible for producing human odor problems in the mouth, armpits, and feet. By implementing our system in these foul smelling bacteria, we could potentially develop bacterial deoderant. In addition, we could implement our system in yeast, thereby producing new flavors and scents in bread and beer. Perfuming bacterial biofilters are yet another feasible industrial application of our project. |
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Revision as of 15:29, 19 October 2006
See our wiki at [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2006 MIT iGEM 2006 at OpenWetWare].
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Members
The MIT iGEM team consists of 5 students working fulltime during summer 2006 on engineering a biological system. In addition, we have 5 graduate student advisors and 2 faculty advisors.
Students
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Skatebro Kate Broadbent]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Dagreen Andre Green]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Stephen Stephen Payne]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Veenav Veena Venkatachalam]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Boyuanzhu Boyuan Zhu]
Email us: team AT igem.mit.edu
Advisors
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Barry_Canton Barry Canton]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Austin_Che Austin Che]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Drew_Endy Drew Endy]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Jason_Kelly Jason Kelly]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Tom_Knight Tom Knight]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Reshma_Shetty Reshma Shetty]
- [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Samantha_Sutton Samantha Sutton]
Email us: igem AT igem.mit.edu
Project overview
This summer, MIT's iGEM 2006 team is developing bacteria that smell pleasant. We have inserted several genes into bacterial genomes to make the cells produce a wintergreen and/or a banana scent. Scents can act as natural biological tags and have many extended applications. By attaching the scent tag to a case-sensitive promoter, we engineered a cellular system to report on environmental conditions. Also, since E. coli naturally produce a fecal smelling compound, we feel that our system will be useful to scientists worldwide as it will make lab work with E. coli bacteria a little less painful. Other bacteria are responsible for producing human odor problems in the mouth, armpits, and feet. By implementing our system in these foul smelling bacteria, we could potentially develop bacterial deoderant. In addition, we could implement our system in yeast, thereby producing new flavors and scents in bread and beer. Perfuming bacterial biofilters are yet another feasible industrial application of our project.
Team photos
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