Team:Amsterdam/26 April 2011

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26-04-2011 | Meeting 7

Funding

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Project Discussion

Methane/Ethane producing bacteria

  • It takes 3 steps to produce methane
  • Multiple subunit proteins are involved
  • Contact people at Swammerdam Institute, they have experience in this

Plastic degrading bacteria

  • Multiple bacteria already do this
  • No biobricks are found yet
  • The exact pathway isn’t known
  • Really slow process, can't we accelerate this?

Plastic producing bacteria

  • Very interesting for medical application
  • Already been done in multiple bacteria
  • The printer of Keltech 2010 also has done this
  • For biobricks there is an opportunity

Water desalination

  • Theoretically possible
  • It is already researched or being researched

Solar Cells bacteria

  • To difficult to do within this short period

Probiotics

  • We can’t test this in human
  • Maybe we can change an already known probiotic to one with fatty acid degration

Sound listening bacteria

  • Pressure produced by music is to low

Opportunistic infections with AIDS

  • Diagnostic method at present: antibodies and CD4 T-cells
  • Look whether the infection is present in the body not if the body works against it
  • Viruses are difficult to recognize
  • Fungi have unique proteins that can be targeted
  • Distinguish between the Fungi and TBC is difficult