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Team UNIBO Cesena Campus IGEM2007

Hi everybody! We are the Bologna University Team; this is our first time in iGEM and we are very excited about it!

Team Roster

Instructors	Student Members	Advisors
Silvio Cavalcanti	Francesco Pasqualini	Emanuele Giordano
Francesca Ceroni	Guido Costa	Marco Tartagni
Sara Montagna	Alice Pasini

Project

The Team's project consists of a Genetic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger Schmitt Trigger], a comparator circuit with an incorporated positive feedback. The main feature of this kind of circuit is the so called hysteresis, which is obtained through a dual threshold action: being T_H and T_L the two thresholds, if input is higher than T_H, output is at an high level; in case of input being lower than T_L, output results low. Instead, when input is between T_H and T_L, output retains its value.

It is worth to remark that the invention of the Thermionic Trigger was a direct result of Otto Schmitt's study of nerve propagation in squid nerves: it is the perfect example of inventing an artificial method to imitate a natural process.

The Beginning

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