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Contents 1 Abstract 2 Contact List 2.1 Faculty Advisors 2.2 Graduate Advisors: 2.3 Undergraduate Students 3 Useful References 4 Safety 4.1 upcoming training 4.2 log your safety training 4.3 Bindley Safety 5 Project Description and Details 6 Photo Area

Abstract

This year's Purdue 2007 iGEM team will be preparing 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. Bacterial cells such as escherichia coli (E. coli) will be used to conduct the microbial warfare. The current design includes using three different types of transformed E. coli that will compete using unique types of 'kill' mechanisms to overcome the other types of E. coli. Different medias will be applied to vary the result of the warfare. Each type of bacteria will also be transformed to display a different color so that the progression of the war between types can be easily viewed and monitered. The team is excited to be working on this project and is moving steadily further to make this project a success.

Contact List

Faculty Advisors

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

Graduate Advisors:

• John Schumm jschumm@purdue.edu
  

Undergraduate Students

• Aaron Young ajyoung@purdue.edu
  
• Meng Zhou zhoum@purdue.edu
  
• Janie Stine mstine@purdue.edu
  
• Dan Sheik dsheik@purdue.edu
  

Useful References

[http://intl-mmbr.asm.org/cgi/reprint/64/3/503 Programmed Cell Death in Bacteria]

[http://www.springerlink.com/content/n88p472061740k32/fulltext.pdf Spiteful Bacteria ... Who wins?]

[http://jb.asm.org/cgi/reprint/94/4/1093 colicin tolerant E coli mutants]

[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v428/n6981/pdf/nature02429.pdf 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 [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Rickus_Lab_Safety Rickus Lab Safety] page on openwetware

Project Description and Details

Photo Area

Our home building on Campus :

[http://www.cyto.purdue.edu/flowcyt/staffpgs/bindly%20for%20ppt.jpg Bindley Bioscience Center]