About tomorrow's meeting

[Lei Xing]

hi guys,

Tomorrow we are going to have our second meeting.

Time: lets make it 3:15pm

Location: We meet up in front of Baillieu library.. (I have got back from Paul about the room booking)

 

For this meeting, we will try to settle down the project proposals. I am bringing up some topics to discuss about.

1. Philip is buoyant bacterial idea is good. We can make the genes which can create the bubble inside the cells as a functional brick (if we are licensed by the author). 

2. Alisa's blog of war idea is very innovative and indeed it accords with the culture of this competition and MIT. However i have several thinkings:   

a. Suppose if we shine red light on to one spot of the bacterial assay, it will affect the surrounding bacterial and make them turn red, and bacterial inside the spot will because a default color. If we shine the blue light, the surrounding bacterial will become blue, for example. I am not sure if this is the way we want to play it even the rule of game is not so simple. To make such a system work, each cell needs:

1. A subsystem that is able to receive two Different light and then switch on the expression two different fluorescent protein and two different communicator protein (like network signal).   
2. Two different communicator proteins are needed to send the information from the cells which are exposed to the light and the one surrounding that cells. And each will turn on the expression of the protein with specific colour. I think previous project does supply such a brick to communicate between cells. Well we can find something else which can fit into our system. 
3. another subsystem that is able to bind with a specific communicator and turn on the expression of the corresponding fluorescent proteins in itself and turn off the opposite colour if necessary.

b. How do we control the moving the communicator so that only limited area of the surrounding protein. 

c. And I doubt that given we can make the system work, i will not play in the way we want.

 

 

Hope we can have some discussions on the current proposals and new ideas

 

Regards,

 

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Lei Xing