Team:Uppsala-SwedenProject

Project Description:

Our project for iGEM 2010 involves building a biological rate detection sensor and demonstrating its usefulness in building a bio-clock and color display unit.

The rate detection mechanism makes use of a pair of of promoters with different efficiencies to detect the quantitative value of the input signal.

Figure 1:Schematic showing quorum sensing behaviour and responses which relate to band detect. Adapted from Basu S et.al, 2005.

Proof Of Concept and Characterisation:

Under Construction

References:

1.Basu S, Gerchman Y, Collins C.H, Arnold F.H, Weiss R, A synthetic multicellular system for programmed pattern formation, 2005, Nature, Vol 434, 1130-1134.

2.Danino T, Mondragón-Palomino O, Tsimring L, Hasty J, A synchronized quorum of genetic clocks, 2010, Nature, Vol 463(7279): 301-2.