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Team:Edinburgh/Wiki Watch
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| Americas | |
| Team | Notes |
| Team:Alberta | Converting biomass to biodiesel using Neurospora crassa. |
| Team:Arizona State | Countering antibiotic resistance with CRISPR. |
| Team:Baltimore | Creation of a Taq polymerase BioBrick. |
| Team:Bard-Annandale | Logical construct involving quorum sensing and Lux genes. |
| Team:Berkeley | |
| Team:British Columbia | Production of monoterpenes in yeast, to investigate their anti-fungal properties. |
| Team:Brown-Stanford | Terraforming Mars with some sort of Cyanobacteria / E. coli symbiosis? |
| Team:BU Wellesley Software | (Software) Involves plasmid design, recombinases, and tuberculosis? |
| Team:BYU Provo | AND gate using OxyR (input: H2O2) and riboswitch (input: high temperature). Output via Cre-Lox. |
| Team:Calgary | Biosensor for Naphthenic acids. |
| Team:Caltech | Bioremediation of organic pollutants. |
| Team:Colombia | E. coli that recognise fungal pathogens by their chitin, and destroy it or induce plant defenses. |
| Team:Columbia-Cooper | Using metal-binding peptides to form quantum dots. |
| Team:Cornell | E. coli that will lyse themselves upon receiving some specific light wavelength. |
| Team:Duke | |
| Team:Gaston Day School | Nitrate detector with output as Red Fluorescent Protein. |
| Team:GeorgiaState | Something involving the yeast Pichia pastoris. |
| Team:GeorgiaTech | Countering antibiotic resistance with CRISPR. |
| Team:Grinnell | Secretion of biofilm-degrading compounds from Caulobacter crescentus. |
| Team:Harvard | Improved targetting of gene therapy using zinc finger DNA binding proteins. |
| Team:Hunter-NYC | |
| Team:ITESM Mexico | Arabinose biosensor with (concentration dependent) output using GFP or CFP. |
| Team:IvyTech-South Bend | Arsenic biosensor with output via smell. May use E. coli or S. cerevisiae. |
| Team:Johns Hopkins | Production of vitamins and minerals in S. cerevisiae. |
| Team:Lethbridge | Bioremediation e.g. of heavy metals. |
| Team:McGill | Control of mammalian cells using light. |
| Team:Michigan | Bind DNA-binding protein to E. coli membrane; attach to surfaces that have oligonucleotides. |
| Team:Minnesota | Light-controlled expression of ompA or Ice Nucleation Protein fused to silicatein for 3D printing. |
| Team:Missouri Miners | |
| Team:MIT | Something involving fluorescence? |
| Team:Nevada | Sugar production from cyanobacteria, to feed E. coli that make biofuel. |
| Team:Northwestern | Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by using its quorum sensing system. |
| Team:NYC Software | (Software) Genome analysis focusing on radiation tolerance. |
| Team:NYC Wetware | Making E. coli radiotolerant by using genes from Deinococcus radiodurans. |
| Team:Panama | Synthesis of rhamnolipids. |
| Team:Penn | Cell-cell communication via light. |
| Team:Penn State | Radiation detector using Phage Lambda lytic switch system. |
| Team:Purdue | Bistable toggle switch using phytochromes. |
| Team:Queens Canada | Using the worm for sensing pollutants by swimming to them. |
| Team:Rutgers | Bacteria responding to lasers; addition of numbers in bacteria; BioBrick validation. |
| Team:Tec-Monterrey | Production of high fructose syrup using membrane-bound fusion proteins. |
| Team:Toronto | Incorporating a magnetosome system into E. coli? |
| Team:TorontoMaRSDiscovery | |
| Team:UANL Mty-Mexico | Logic gates taking light signals as inputs. |
| Team:UCSF | Production of biofilms with S. cerevisiae, by cell display of adhesive proteins. |
| Team:UC Davis | |
| Team:UIUC-Illinois | Something with sRNA? |
| Team:UNAM-Genomics Mexico | Hydrogen production in Rhizobium etli in Phaseolus vulgaris. |
| Team:UNAM-ITESM Mexico City | Rubber-degrading bacteria. |
| Team:UNICAMP-EMSE Brazil | Something involving stress? |
| Team:uOttawa | Improval of S. cerevisiae for use with BioBricks. |
| Team:USC | Countering antibiotic resistance with CRISPR. |
| Team:Utah State | Production of valuable compounds using the cyanobacterium Synechocystis. |
| Team:UTP-Panama | |
| Team:UT Dallas | |
| Team:VCU | |
| Team:Virginia | Using S. cerevisiae to produce factors which heal human wounds. |
| Team:Virginia Tech | |
| Team:Washington | |
| Team:WashU | |
| Team:Waterloo | Creation of ribozymes that will excise out of an RNA transcript. |
| Team:West Point | |
| Team:Wisconsin-Madison | Biosensors to detect biofuels? |
| Team:Yale | Production of antifreeze using E. coli and a gene from the Rhagium inquisitor beetle. |
| Asia | |
| Team | Notes |
| Team:ArtScienceBangalore | |
| Team:CBNU-Korea | Synthesising a minimal chromosome; somehow involving V. cholerae. |
| Team:CTGU-Yichang | |
| Team:Fudan-Shanghai | Nitrate detection; switching between different colour production; something else. |
| Team:HIT-Harbin | Yoghurt bacteria that stop producing acid once the yoghurt is acidic enough. |
| Team:HKU-Hong Kong | Silencing specific genes with a modified histone-like nucleoid structuring protein. |
| Team:HKUST-Hong Kong | Degrading indole using toluene-4-monooxygenase, to boost antibiotic susceptibility. |
| Team:HokkaidoU Japan | |
| Team:Hong Kong-CUHK | Light-driven ion pump to produce electricity. |
| Team:HSU | |
| Team:HUST-China | Modification of gut-colonising bacteria to degrade alcohol and prevent people being drunk. |
| Team:IIT Madras | |
| Team:KAIST-Korea | Artistic E. coli, expressing fluorescence in response to quorum sensing molecules. |
| Team:KAIT Japan | |
| Team:KIT-Kyoto | Using quorum sensing to turn on and off GFP expression for aesthetic purposes. |
| Team:Korea U Seoul | Production of alkanes from glucose. |
| Team:Kyoto | Attracting insects with light, trapping them with gum, and digesting them. |
| Team:Macquarie Australia | "Bacterial light switch" involving bacteriaphytochrome and heme oxygenase. |
| Team:Nanjing | |
| Team:NCTU Formosa | Temperature controlled expression; testing with carotenoid, violacein, and butanol synthesis. |
| Team:NYMU-Taipei | Something involving magnetosomes to transduce a signal; also DNA for information storage. |
| Team:Osaka | Radiation dosimeter using DNA repair systems to detect radiation. |
| Team:OUC-China | Promotion and inhibition of bacterial strains by each other. |
| Team:Peking R | Something involving riboswitches and synthetic ribosome binding sites. |
| Team:Peking S | Something with cell-cell communication. |
| Team:Rajasthan | |
| Team:SJTU-BioX-Shanghai | Translational control. |
| Team:SYSU-China | Bacteria that move towards ionising radiation and absorb radioisotopes. |
| Team:Tianjin | |
| Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen | Bacteria that absorb radioactive caesium. |
| Team:Tokyo Metropolitan | Killer E. coli that swim to some "target" and kill it. |
| Team:Tokyo Tech | Rock/Paper/Scissors bacteria; urea production; isoprene for cloud seeding. |
| Team:Tsinghua | Something involving movement of proteins. |
| Team:Tsinghua-A | Oscillation between red and green fluorescence, using quorum sensing. |
| Team:TzuChiU Formosa | |
| Team:UNIST Korea | An organism which will kill itself upon escape from the lab. |
| Team:UQ-Australia | 24-hour bacterial oscillator. |
| Team:UST-Beijing | |
| Team:USTC-China | "Self-organized bacteria". |
| Team:USTC-Software | (Software) Visual tool for analysing dynamics of biological systems. |
| Team:UT-Tokyo | Bacteria that respond to stress by creating a signal, which other bacteria swim towards. |
| Team:VIT Vellore | Enteric bacteria producing drugs or other compounds for the body. |
| Team:Waseda-Japan | Something involving responding to different colours of light. |
| Team:WHU-China | Bacterial communication with light; also colour photography using E. coli. |
| Team:XMU-China | Something involving GFP. |
| Team:ZJU-China | Something involving using biofilms. |
| Europe | |
| Team | Notes |
| Team:Amsterdam | Make E. coli psychrophilic (cold loving). |
| Team:BCCS-Bristol | |
| Team:Bielefeld-Germany | Cell-free biosensor for bisphenol A. |
| Team:Bilkent UNAM Turkey | Production of protein from algae e.g. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. |
| Team:Cambridge | Expression of reflectins. |
| Team:CongoDRC-Bel Campus | Vaccine for Mycobacterium ulcerans. |
| Team:Copenhagen | Removal of pharmaceutical products from water with cytochrome P450. |
| Team:Debrecen Hungary | |
| Team:DTU-Denmark | Using sRNA for post-transcriptional regulation. |
| Team:Dundee | Creation of bacterial microcompartments. |
| Team:Edinburgh | Display of cellulases on phage (via M13 pVIII) and on cell surfaces (via Ice Nucleation Protein). |
| Team:ENSPS-Strasbourg | |
| Team:EPF-Lausanne | Creation of new transcription factors. |
| Team:ETH Zurich | Biological smoke detector by detection of acetaldehyde. |
| Team:Fatih Turkey | Using B. subtilis to detect E. coli? |
| Team:Freiburg | A cheaper system for protein purification. |
| Team:Glasgow | |
| Team:Grenoble | Determination of metal concentration by growing reporter bacteria on an IPTG gradient. |
| Team:Groningen | Remembering that an input has occurred and using a biological AND gate to count occurrences. |
| Team:Imperial College London | |
| Team:KULeuven | Creation and prevention of ice with Ice Nucleation Protein and Anti Freeze Protein. |
| Team:LMU-Munich | Metal biosensors with a focus on quantification. |
| Team:Lyon-INSA-ENS | Biofilter for radioactive waste. |
| Team:METU-Ankara | Methane biosensor and methane conversion into methanol. |
| Team:METU-BIN Ankara | (Software) Web based tool for construct planning. |
| Team:METU Turkey SoftLab | |
| Team:Nairobi | Engineering a fungus to kill insects. |
| Team:NTNU Trondheim | Detection of bacterial stress; based on the E. coli "stringent response" which produces ppGpp. |
| Team:Paris Bettencourt | Passing signals e.g. RNA from cell to cell via nanotubes. |
| Team:Potsdam Bioware | |
| Team:Sevilla | Biological circuits using multiple different genotypes at once. |
| Team:Strathclyde Glasgow | |
| Team:St Andrews | Production of anti-microbial peptides in E. coli to kill bacteria. |
| Team:TU-Delft | Expressing mussel glue protein in E. coli to attach to stuff, with inducible detachment. |
| Team:TU Munich | 3D printing by immobilising E. coli in a gel and turning on genes iff two different coloured lasers hit. |
| Team:UCL London | Using gyrase to increase supercoiling of plasmids. |
| Team:UEA-JIC Norwich | Glow-in-the-dark bacteria, protists, and moss. |
| Team:ULB-Brussels | |
| Team:UNIPV-Pavia | |
| Team:UNITS Trieste | Synthetic biome where bacteria and eukaryotic cells depend on each other to survive. |
| Team:UPO-Sevilla | Biological memory with bistable toggle switches. |
| Team:Uppsala-Sweden | Light-induced gene expression. |
| Team:UTP-Poland | |
| Team:Valencia | Production of antimicrobial peptides to clean up drinking water. |
| Team:Wageningen UR | Oscillating, synchronised gene expression in E. coli, and communication along fungal hyphae. |
| Team:Warsaw | |
| Team:WITS-CSIR SA | E. coli that search for a ligand then, upon finding it, return to a point of origin and report. |
