Team:Cambridge/Future/Visuals

As this project is based around colour and light interactions, our characterisation experiments are set up to provide visual results in every facet of the project.

In vivo imaging

When learning the basic techniques of synbio, we put together constructs for fluorescent protein expression in E. coli. We will return to GFP as a way to measure the solubility of reflectin, giving similar images to those below.

GFP in E.coli colonies.

RFP in E.coli colonies

We also experimented with unusual confocal microscopy settings to find a way of best capturing the iridescence and reflective properties of reflectin in cells. See below for images of squid cells we have studied. We hope to achieve similar images from E.coli cells.

	==In vitro photonic devices==	We hope to build a prototype of a non-backlit screen which reflects incident light of different colours, based on these potential methods for changing structural colour.	==Previous iGEM projects==
As our project is a natural extension of previous Cambridge teams' efforts with light and pigment-based colour, we would be happy to show some of their finished projects alongside our own work.