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From 2011.igem.org

Meeting 8

Funding: No letters received Sponsor letters to UvA and VU will be sent. Internship funding might be useful. Labyrinth tv will be contacted by supervisor Douwe Molenaar. Projects discussion: methane producing E.coli Yuri talked with expert Martijn Bekker. Need to check if the trans-membrane protein is a problem:

• Toxicity
• Can methane be made from lactose?
• Can methane be made from Acetyl-CoA?

Plastic degrading bacteria

• It can be useful, but will it produce enough?
• Could plastic be grown on food waste?

Oppurtunistic infections with AIDS

• PAMPs are known,those can be used as targets
• Different proteins show a good individual result while blasting
• Look at Slovenia iGEM 2006

Neglected diseases

• we don't use viruses
• Parasites will be checked, but full-grown are to difficult

Signal transduction

• Robustness
• Signals in cells are noisy
• Peter Swain is an expert on this
• What application?

Chemotaxis

• Examples: Influence flagella, Circadian rhythms influencing
• Almhof is working on this
• It has been used before in iGEM

• Good idea: Let a bacteria take a molecule for transport
• Size and precision?
• Application?

For next meeting: Check the projects for feasibility

Dates:

• 9th of May 16:00 Next meeting
• 10th of May 12:00 Media training
• 11th of May meeting at VU at 16:00
• 12th of May meeting at UvA at 16:00
• 13th of May 16:00 global meeting of Netherlands iGEM teams