Team:Cambridge/Ideas

Projects

• Production
  • HIV / Other diagnosis
  • Detect pathogens in drinking water
  • Avocado ripeness indicator
  • Vibration sensing
  • Diagnosing plant viruses / Erwinia
  • Pollen detectors
  • Detect level of Nitrogen (pollution) in water runoff from farming
  • Carbon monoxide sensors
  • Hydrostatic pressure activated sensor / stretch activated channels
  • Plant to monitor pollution levels
• Logic
  • AND gate with lambda phage antiterminators
  • Bacterial adder with carrying using a series of NAND gates and quorum sensing
  • New quorum sensing molecules
  • Better comparator or Op Amp
  • Random Number generation
• Biofuels
  • Hydrogen production for cars
  • 3rd gen biofuels
  • Fuel production ethanol
  • Kerosene production
• Production

  • Rubber production

    Aluminium production from ore

    Produce Vitamin A / carotenoids for food supplement

    Protein as food supplement

    Produce insecticide / insect repellent

    Miraculin synthesis

    Producing silk

    Nitrite driven aerobic methane oxidation

    Light -> energy production

    Use bacterial outer membrane vesicles to present non-functional
    antigens to immune system = cheap vaccine

    Expression of HIV antigens in yeast

    Healthy alternatives to pesticides

    Biofilm as filter for drinking water

    Engineer cattle gut flora to fix atmospheric nitogen to make amnure a better fertiliser

    Produce saffron

    Flavonoid synthesis

    Producing human antibodies in yeast

    Glowsticks

• Degradation
  • Landfill (plastics)
  • Breaking down domestic waste
  • Cleaning air pollution (nitrogen oxide)
  • Eating chewing gum
  • Methane absorber/convertrer
  • Cleaning contaminated water
  • Cleaning polluted water
• Chemotaxis
  • E. moli - gravitropic E. coli
  • Heat seeking E.coli
  • Bacterial capacitor
  • Magnetotaxis
  • Gold bioaccumulation
• Other
  • Asymmetric segregation of a determinant in E. coli to keep a stock of stem cells
  • Soil replenishment
  • Inducible replication switch
  • Engineering something that only kills drug resistant bacteria
  • Turing patterning
• Bioluminescence
  • Plant street lamps
  • Glowing colours
  • Luminescent cells
  • Bioluminescent oscillator w/ different colours

HIV