ETH Zurich 2006
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Schedule
- Thu 20.7., 1700
- kickoff meeting in CNB E 121
- Until 31.7.
- Define project
- Until 20.8.
- Finalize DNA design, order it
- September,October
- Implement design (registry bio-bricks, ordered DNA)
- 23.10.
- Latest point to start getting your presentation going and to finish the iGEM wiki documentation
- 4./5.11.
- Jamboree in Boston
Particiants
- Michael Friedmann
- Dimo Brockhoff
- Franz Zürcher
- Olga Nikolayeva
- Alexandra Choutko
- Arthur Korn
- Robert Schütz
- Marco Terzer
- Marko Jovanovic
Information that's nice to have on the user page:
- discipline you're studying
- email adress
- instant messenger or webphone or whatever contact information
- photo (we want to make some at the meeting at 7/20)
Bear in mind that this stuff is all made public.
Informal meeting
After today`s lab there was the idea of an informal meeting at monday for doing some brainstorming. Would this fit for everyone? What time would fit best? For further discussion we may use the discussion page.
I think to get an idea when people can come we should make a list here (easier than the other one, just enter a line for you and make marks where you can come):
Monday 17th July Names 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Michael ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok Dimo ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok Alexandra ok ok ok ok ok ok ok Franz I'm busy on Monday (MEMS Lab) Arthur Away
Availability chart
Sorry Alexandra, the table I made is terrible to edit, so I think we can use that: [http://www.doodle.ch/dpstPwMnysUQ]
The meaning of the marks is inverted!! (to save clicking work on your part I hope ;))
TODOs
- find time for next meeting on Monday (collecting ideas with complete team)
Project Ideas
Last years brainstorming: Previous_Ideas
Cellular automata / Quorum controlled behaviour
- Game of Life or other semitotalistic automata [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ca/lifelike.html]
- propagate a pulse in culture
- Predator-prey-veggies (or just predator-prey)
State representation:
- switches and reporters
- cell life (self destruct and regenerate)
Stepping could be done by
- an exogenious signal, so each step is a process converging to a steady state (avoid problem of developing a dynamic system)
- generations
- oscillating system in cells
(Normally cellular automata are stepped synchronously, but it's often not really necessary)
The matrix would not be as regular as in the mathematical models of corse ...
Logic
- A kind of a simple ALU: at least two simple logic functions and a multiplexer
- An implementation of a full-adder: 1-bit adder with carry
Can't find any logic gates except inverters in the registry, looks interesting.
- → because of that, even simplier gates (AND, OR, XOR, ...) are required
Sensing
- acoustic
- pressure
- electric
- magnetic (exists in nature, cf. [http://magnum.mpi-bremen.de/magneto/pub/Schueler1999.pdf])
- light (BB exists[http://partsregistry.org/Featured_Parts:Light_Sensor])
- temperature (first BBs by 2005 Toronto team [http://parts2.mit.edu/r/parts/partsdb/pgroup.cgi?pgroup=iGEM&group=iGEM_Toronto])
- chemicals
- number of neighbor cells (related to «Game of Life» idea): it seems that another team tried similar in 2004 [http://2006.igem.org/wiki/index.php/IAP2004:Polkadorks]
- frequency discrimination
- synchronize oscillations among cells (or have emergent synchronous oscillations in the culture)
Agents (sense & act)
- fire squad: get bacteria to find a reaction on the plate and extinguish it
- bacteria sensing high atmoshpere and switching to produce ozon (to refill ozon holes)
Limitations to lift
- E. coli can't move (Seems Penn state had moving E. Coli last year: Penn_StateProjectDes)
- need to control growth to stabilize cell culture structures if they are desired
