1. iGEM
Advisors Meeting 4/23/2010

2. First week of summer
Project Proposal
Where to start research on our project?
Biosafety!
Regional Conference Update
Who is interested in going to the Competition November 5th-7th?
Access to IGB

3. Summer Meetings Tools + Wetlab general stuff– 1/wk
Tools + Wetlab Administrative stuff – 1/wk
Wetlab + Professors – 1/wk
Wetlab – 1/day 10am (except May 23-27th)

4. May 23rd – 27th Mornings Afternoon – Lab Work!
Day 1
Procedure for Intro Project
Day 2
How to research
Parts Registry
Primer Design
Day 3
OpenWetWare/Wiki
Modeling Basics
Day 4
Data Collection
Bioethics
Day 5
Meetings, etc.
Pull Reporters/Promoters/etc. from Parts Registry
Standard Assembly
Basic modeling
Testing
Work on Project Procedure

5. Project Proposal
Use pre-existing pathways to make e. coli. Take in metal from the surroundings and reduce it to precipitate metal ores.
Focus on two different metals and an alloy of the two
Create and a decoder function
Using tf, RNA regulation, or both?
Combine the decoder and metal reducing pathways to make a cell that will produce either one or the other type of metal, or an alloy when the two are both present.
Degredation and Biodegredation; Olefins and Parafins, Aromatic Compounds, Alkanes, Alkenes, Hydrocarbon into Google Scholar.

6. Project Proposal
The 2010 Illinois iGEM Bioware team project involves the construction of a biological system that functions as a decoding nanofabricator. As a continuation of the previous Illinois iGEM Bioware project: The Bacterial Decoder, the decoding bionanofabricator will produce specifically structured, purified, metallic ores depending on the presence of metals in its environment. This system will also possess the capacity to produce metal alloys by analyzing the presence and combination of specific metals in the environment. This system will take advantage of metal-respiring and metal detoxifying microbes that possess the ability to reduce metals as terminal electron acceptors and/or reduce toxic forms of metals into insoluble, harmless forms. The decoding nanofabricator will emphasize the capacity of information processing in biological systems to perform human-define tasks in industrial, manufacturing, computing, and environmental applications.