<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="800" height="630" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7vsVlscr6YE?hd=1" frameborder="0"></iframe>

<div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vsVlscr6YE?hd=1" class="external" title="Enlarge"><img src="/wiki/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" /></a></div><b>Project overview of E. lemming.</b> The core idea of E. lemming is to control chemotaxis of <i>E. coli</i> by means of light! We'll realize this by hijacking and perturbing the tumbling / directed movement apparatus. By coupling proteins of the chemotaxis pathway to a synthetic light-sensitive spatial localization system, their activity can be controlled reversibly.</div></div></div></div>