ETH Zurich 2006

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Contents

Introduction

People

Students

Simon Barkow Christophe Dessimoz Zlatko Franjcic
Dominic Frutiger Robin Künzler Urs A. Müller
Jonas Nart Kristian Nolde Alexander Roth
Tamara Ulrich Giorgia Valsesia Herve Vanderschuren

Supervisors

Jörg Stelling Sven Panke Eckart Zitzler

Advisors

Uwe Sauer Martin Fussenegger Andreas Hierlemann
Kay-Uwe Kirstein Ruedi Aebersold

Events & Timeline


Project Ideas

This is the brainstorming section. In this section you will find random ideas and comments without too much consideration of feasability etc. Crazy ideas and wild dreams are welcome!

Individual Phenomena

Designing and tweaking so that the individual behaves in a desired way.

Oscillator-based Phenomena

Some clocking behaviors, such as counters and integrators etc.

Collaborative Phenomena

Some of us have a great interest in some form of emergent phenomena and group dynamics based on simple local rules and external stimulae. Examples would be behaviors like sorting, pattern detections, flocking etc.


Development Groups

We decided to cluster related projects and to form groups which will dedicate their time to this cluster. The goal is to converge to some single preferred solution based on these project ideas while keeping an eye on feasability, coolness, usefulness, and modular architecture on the way.

If you are in no group yet, please choose one.

Quorum Sensing based (Dominic, Giorgia, Herve)

Oscillator based (Urs, Christophe, Jonas)

Generation based (-)

Other projects (Jonas, Simon, Dominic)

Merged Projects

The two projects below are the outcome of the work of our two remaining development groups. They both have their pros and cons and the discussion continues until at least Monday evening.



Ballot

Please everybody make your vote (1 means "forget it" and 10 means "definitely a Nature paper") on the four criteria.

CONSTRUCTOR Urs Tamara Jonas Zlatko Giorgia Simon Kristian Herve Dominic Alexander Christophe Robin
Usefulness 6 - - - - 6 - - - - - -
Feasability 4 - - - - 5 - - - - - -
Modularity 10 - - - - 9 - - - - - -
Coolness 9 - - - - 9 - - - - - -

Additional Comments:

Urs:
I think if the whole thing works this project is astonishing. But I'm in doubt about it. The fact
that you could model each step seperatly is of course a big advantage of this project. The 
probability that at least a few of the steps work is quite high and so you will see some results at 
the end. I'm not so sure about the usefulness. To encapsulate some bacterias which produce a certein
substance could be usefull but I'm not an expert in this stuff.
COUNTER Urs Tamara Jonas Zlatko Giorgia Simon Kristian Herve Dominic Alexander Christophe Robin
Usefulness 10 - - - - 8 - - - - - -
Feasability 6 - - - - 7 - - - - - -
Modularity 7 - - - - 8 - - - - - -
Coolness 8 - - - - 9 - - - - - -

Additional Comments:

Urs:
From the engineer's point of few a counter like this is of course a crucial brick. As you can take 
the concentration of any substance you like (by transforming it to our input S) and also add for 
every single counter step a specific gene needed for an application this counter can be used 
whereever you want. The big disadvantage is of course that if the counter doesn't work there will be
no result you can see.

External Information

Links

Papers

bulter04, atkinson03, bates05, keiler01, suetsugu03, sudesh00, römling02, ross91, sutherland01, Lai04, zogaj01, miller01, basu05,

goryachev05

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