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=== Undergraduate Students ===
=== Undergraduate Students ===
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*[[Purdue: Aaron Young |Aaron Young ajyoung@purdue.edu]] <br>
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*[[Purdue: Aaron Young, junior biomedical engineering |Aaron Young, ajyoung@purdue.edu]] <br>
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*[[Purdue: Meng Zhou |Meng Zhou zhoum@purdue.edu]] <br>
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*[[Purdue: Meng Zhou, senior chemistry |Meng Zhou, zhoum@purdue.edu]] <br>
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*[[Purdue: Janie Stine |Janie Stine mstine@purdue.edu]] <br>
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*[[Purdue: Janie Stine, sophomore biological and food processing engineering |Janie Stine, mstine@purdue.edu]] <br>
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*[[Purdue: Dan Sheik |Dan Sheik dsheik@purdue.edu]] <br>
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*[[Purdue: Dan Sheik, senior biochemistry |Dan Sheik dsheik@purdue.edu]] <br>
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* Craig Barcus
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* Craig Barcus, junior agricultural and biological engineering
== Useful References ==
== Useful References ==

Revision as of 14:09, 26 October 2007

Contents

Abstract

This year's Purdue 2007 iGEM team will be presenting a project called "Bacteria Warfare" for this year's competition hosted by MIT in November. The team is composed of a group of undergraduates from different majors including Biomedical Engineering, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Biochemistry, and Chemistry. Escherichia coli (E. coli) is used to conduct the microbial warfare. The design is to use two different types of transformed E. coli. One type of E. coli produces protein that triggers the death gene of its opponent (but not for itself) which expresses the production of a protein toxin. One expresses green fluorescence protein and the other expresses red fluorescence protein so that the progression of the war between types can be easily viewed and monitered. The team decided the general topic of a bacteria wafare at the end of spring 07 and started design and construction of the wafare in summer 07.

Contact List

Faculty Advisors

  • Dr. Rickus rickus@purdue.edu
  • Dr. Clase
  • Dr. Mosier

Graduate Advisors:

Undergraduate Students

Useful References

Programmed Cell Death in Bacteria

Spiteful Bacteria ... Who wins?

colicin tolerant E coli mutants

Bacterial Rock Paper Scissors

Safety

upcoming training

If you have not completed safety training in the last 12 months then please attend the BMED safety training on May 24, 1:30 - 3:30 PM Thursday in BMED 2001.

log your safety training

Work in Lab and should have already compeleted safety training:

  • Meng Zhou
  • Dan Sheik

Bindley Safety

Finally, for safety information specific to the labs in Bindley see the Rickus Lab Safety page on openwetware

Project Description and Details

We transformed two types of E. Coli: one with plasmid 1 and the other plasmid 2.

the gene map can be find from IGEM parts: BBa_I738009 (for plasmid 1) and BBa_I738010 (for plasmid 2)

Photo Area

Our home building on Campus :

Bindley Bioscience Center