Archive for April, 2010
Imperial IGEM’07
Apr 20th
Back in the summer of 2007, I took part in the Imperial College IGEM team. We produced a cell-free biosensor for detecting catheter associated urinary tract infections by exploiting the AHL quorum sensing mechanism used by bacterial cells for coordinating biofilm formation. More information can be found in our IGEM 2007 Wiki and in our OpenWetWare Wiki. The over-arching objective of our project, however, was to demonstrate the viability of a cell-free chassis for synthetic biology, based on purified cell extracts. To that end, we created a whole new chassis section in the MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts.
Imperial IGEM’07 presentation at the IET BioSysBio 2008
Apr 20th
This was my very first conference presentation!
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Cell-Free Biofilm Biosensor of Catheter related Urinary Tract Infections, Built using Biobricks that Exploit AHL Signalling Pathways in Biofilms D van Swaay Presentation from BioSysBio 2008, Imperial College, London, UK 2008-04-21 12:00:00.0 Electronics Channel |
Update: The webcast link appears to be broken 
