Brainstorming Session 1
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| Department | General |
| Description | Akash, Misaal |
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Akash's foundational advance idea on temporal control using N4 phages:
- using it as a vector
- or using its components (promoters, gene products etc.) to create a plasmid vector
How does it compare to a reprissilator? How can it be used to solve any problems? Potential use as a While loop.
Misaal's ideas:
- Mycelium based biomaterials
- modular, makes substrates stiffer
- if substrate is in a mould, the material is formed in the shape of the mould
- leather, textiles
- Bacterial cellulose
- very pure, mouldable
- water holding capacity - hydrogels
- can't be upscale in a cheap way
- paper, food, textiles, wound dressing (healing is found to be faster with biopolymers of cellulose), electronic paper
- Secondary metabolites
- aren't necessary for the organism to survive, provides it with fitness advantage
- plant secondary metabolites- flavonoids (dyes, flavour) , terpenoids (anti oxidants), alkaloids (pharma)
- in cell cultures, it is not produced natively in high yields and is expensive
- well characterised pathways may exist (eg vanillin?)
- use of co cultures
- microbial secondary metabolites might be easier to produce on large scale as it would be natively synthesised