Team:Wageningen UR/Journal/week0

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A short history of team Wageningen UR 2012

During the final weeks of 2011, our supervisors gathered a small group of enthusiastic students, willing to sacrifice their summer Holliday to work on iGEM. In the first weeks of January, this small group quickly expanded to about 10 persons who were involved in the brainstorm.
A Belgium Beer Café was deemed most suitable for this purpose. The ideas that came to our minds were everything in between brilliant and alcohol induced nonsense.

Having a beer while brainstorming at De Vlaamsche Reus



Interesting to notice, our final idea is derived from the first idea on our brainstorm list, which can be inspected at the bottom. The Google drive document indicated on September 5, 2012:

A screenshot from the google drive, indicating the time between the start of our brainstorm and the final weeks of the project



During the months February and March, we trimmed the list down to only 3 ideas: - Site specific drug delivery using VLPs - Mimicking eukaryotic glycosylation patterns in prokaryotes - Conversion of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons into usable chemicals After consultation of postdocs and (associate) professors of both Wageningen University and elsewhere, we had a vote which ended in a tie between drug delivery and glycosylation. After a second consultation round and additional information about glycosylation from Prof. Markus Aebi (ETH Zurich), we decided to choose for the site specific drug delivery using VLPs. The final decision was based upon feasibility of the project within the given timeframe. The comment of Aebi was that we are “somewhat ahead of our time”.

The Ideas

  1. A Site specific drug delivery (epithelial cancer)
  2. A Organic sphere lighting
  3. A Ground erosion
  4. A Eating plastics
  5. A Producing oil
  6. A Nice smelling farts (like flowers)
  7. Biological clock
  8. Deodorant
  9. Red foam on beer
  10. Toxic sensors (promotor induced by toxins)
  11. Detection of radiation, Fukushima
  12. ZOAB-saving bacteria. Filling cracks, reacting on exposure to air.
  13. Glycerol production to prevent freezing
  14. Taste customisation by temperature controlled promotors. Each temperature yields a different taste.
  15. Fermentation of drinks (orange juice to cocktails) (in teabag)
  16. Beef production by MOs. (flavours)
  17. Waste product degradation and production of usable products
    1. Recycling of phosphates
    2. Bacteria for urinals: decrease smell and convert to usable product in sewage stream.
  18. Bird flu 4.0, deathly
  19. Bacteria that eat: Houses, batteries, death terrorists
  20. Bomb detection
  21. Dog nose bacteria
  22. Land mine detection (explosives)
  23. Production of bomb ingredients
  24. Drugs detector
  25. Alcohol detection, save to drive?
  26. Liver damage detection in urine
  27. Cancer detection in urine, diabetes, STDs and other diseases (at home)
  28. Condom that lights up when in contact with STD
  29. Batteries by MOs (rechargeable)
  30. Biodegradable batteries
  31. Collecting gold
  32. Hydrogen production
  33. Accumulation of metals from seawater in bacteria (recycling)
  34. Accumulation of salt from sea water or flocculation of salt
  35. Lights up when low in alcohol, you should drink more
  36. Anti-hangover
  37. Food preservation
  38. Fat binding E. coli, loosing weight
  39. Degradation of pesticides
  40. Bio diesel
  41. CO2, methane fixation
  42. Methane degradation in cows. Convert it into usable fuel, less greenhouse gas
  43. Flying bacteria
  44. Biofilm around the world
  45. Bacterial catalysers in cars (recycling)
  46. Produce shoe polish when exposed to air
  47. Cleaning with bacteria
  48. Bacteria that convert food into medicine (in situ)
  49. Music, sound producing MOs
  50. Vibrating MOs that store music
  51. Production of wood
  52. Reversed humans for in space
  53. Rocket fuel
  54. Glue/Duct tape
  55. Cooling, cleaning air: Climate control.
  56. Bone replacement
  57. Kill mosquitoes
  58. Kill vectors for diseases (malaria by killing mosquitoes)
  59. Fresh water production
  60. Plastic/spider silk production
  61. MOs eating hair pockets (no shaving anymore)
  62. LSD production
  63. In situ production of narcotics. Helping addicts
  64. Binding of sex hormones, pedofile detector
  65. Viagra producing fungi
  66. Sterilisation bacteria (birth control)
  67. Fortification of dykes
  68. Cell Cycle Control by using mono-chromatic light
  69. Cell Cycle Control by using inducer (nisin or subtilin)
  70. Plastic degrading bacteria in ocean
  71. Bio memory
  72. Bio computer/intelligence
  73. Rapid Evolution Micro-Organism
  74. Protein deficiency solution using micro-organisms symbiosis
  75. Hormone misbalance solution using micro-organism symbiosis
  76. Vitamin deficiency solution using Micro-organism symbiosis
  77. Mono-chromatic light as inducer
  78. Walking light cell line
  79. Minimal cell
  80. Garbage micro-organism
  81. Micro-organism growing (only) on (exaust) gasses
  82. Plastics to fuel
  83. Agricultural waste to plastics
  84. Polymer production by using peptidoglycan layer producing units
  85. Extreme symbiotic cells
  86. Micro-organism reacting to sound/vibrations
  87. Cell line production
  88. The Exploding Cells Infection
  89. Bodily fluids clean up
  90. Faeces to plastics
  91. Survival cell
  92. Hazardous material detector and quantifier
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