Teaching bacteria how to dance
Paul King, V. Lavrovsky, Christian J. Jacob, Sebastian von Mammen · IET Synthetic Biology · 2007
The motivational design idea for our iGEM 2006 team was to use bacteria to create swarm paintings. We designed two types of E. coli cells: senders and receivers. Stationary senders would act as attraction points; receivers would follow nutrition gradients towards the senders. In addition to the first steps of the actual in vitro designs, we developed a computer simulation of our bacterial swarm painters.