Make bacteria smell

[Mega]

Guys,

I heard form E.Coli producing vanillin,  banana smell,... etc.
Would be really cool to show people what you can do in a diy way. ( I think to impress average people, you have to make the bacteria glow, smell, etc. to make success visible.  When you tell them they produce a protein, they don't see anything and it doesn't seem special )

Now I would be happy to find a plasmid (distributer) anywhere where I can get such a plasmid.
And it should make the smell without any specific  substrate-need. (I think that the IGEM bacteria need ferulic acid to make vanillin. Wherefrom shall one DIY'er take f.acid?


Would be really cool if anyone accidentally knew where to get one ;)

All the best

[Simon Quellen Field]

E. coli already stinks.

:-)

Maybe all of the E. coli in Mac's "Top 48" should include nice smells for free.

The first time I met Mac he was handing out cards with blots of banana scent

plasmids on them.

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[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:58:13PM -0700, Simon Quellen Field wrote:
> E. coli already stinks.

Shoulda smell some anaerobes. Realy ripe ones. Ugh.

I actually smell rich media/cultures every day when biking
past local Max Planck. Plus, what do all these ear-tagged goats
do, all out in the open? And that excessive heat exchangers on
the roof of the new structure could only possibly mean serious
supercomputing power? Innit? Orwhatelse?

I need to check out what they've been building lately, there.

[Bryan Bishop]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:58:13PM -0700, Simon Quellen Field wrote:
>> E. coli already stinks.
>
> Shoulda smell some anaerobes. Realy ripe ones. Ugh.
>
> I actually smell rich media/cultures every day when biking
> past local Max Planck. Plus, what do all these ear-tagged goats

Those are just the fumes. Pay no attention to that.

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[Simon Quellen Field]

Those fumes may be responsible for many other hallucinations as well.

I'd advise waiting until you come down before posting.

:-)

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[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:38:18PM -0700, Simon Quellen Field wrote:

> Those fumes may be responsible for many other hallucinations as well.

Sorry for posting some slightly weird stuff yesterday. (Actually, not.
Posting when drunk is fun).

The goats are for real, though. Not sure whether the local
(biochem/neuro) Max Planck is having them to keep the grass short, or whether they're
experimental animals (as they're living out in the open, under
uncontrolled conditions it's unlikely, though. However, they do
have ear tags, presumably to keep them apart. So maybe doch).

Max Planck also building a lot lately, and the new building
has the biggest heat-exchangers I've ever seen on a structure
so small. So they're either building the biggest walk-in cold
room I've ever seen (with glass doors? no insulation?), or
this is for a computing facility. Water-cooled, a cluster,
presumably.

When I'll get drunk again I'll make sure to keep you posted.
On the goats, at least.

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[Cathal Garvey]

There's a strain our there that metabolites indole differently and doesn't smell nearly as bad. I was tempted to buy it before I got used to the smell, but maybe it's worth it for newbies.. :)

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[Simon Quellen Field]

I have a bunch of goats and alpacas here on the farm to keep the weeds down

in a perimeter around the house, vineyard, and orchard, for fire safety. What

they don't eat, they trample, and the couple acres they live in is basically nothing

but bare dirt and trees now. They mostly eat bales of grass I set out for them.

The ear tags are most likely to indicate ownership. Goats are worth about $75

each here in the U.S., and people like to keep track of theirs.

Heat exchangers are more efficient the larger they are, and it may be worth the

extra cost in energy savings. So it may not reflect on differences in cooling load

as much as changes in energy prices, or in changes to permit requirements for

new construction.

And yes, I was joking around too, fully expecting you to have a good sense of humor.

:-)

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