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Team:UCL London
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Welcome to the Stress Busters Homepage
Welcome to the UCL_London team 2009!
Our project “Stress Light” aims to produce a series of biosensor devises which can improve the traditional mechanical measurements in bio-processing by using the different fluorescent proteins as indicators of different stresses for bacteria during bio-processing. Our product and system is called “the traffic-light stress sensor” and is meant to send out fluorescent proteins of different colors in response to different stresses which are inhibiting growth or harming production. Description
Ideally the cells responses to stress conditions should be sufficiently rapid for the stresses to be detected and mitigated. Objective
Besides making bioprocesses easier to monitor, analyse and hence optimize, we believe that well functioning biobricks responding accurately to processing conditions (e.g. oxygen levels) can have a broad set of general applications; e.g. to make induction of large scale bioprocesses more cost effective or be used to develop self inducible or self regulated bioprocesses.Vision
The Team
This is UCL's first time entering into this competition. We are the "Stress Busters" made up of four magnificent students, and 3 super supervisors!
Abstract
Overview of the project.
