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The scatalog: E. chromi, pigment and poo

James King, Daisy Ginsberg Tuur Van Balen and Michael Barton, designers-artists-technologists have recently graduated from the Royal College of Arts in London, and have followed the Cambridge iGEM2009 team over the summer, participating in the Synthetic Biology Crash Course.

James and Daisy have delivered their own workshops on design, human engagement and futurology. in addition, they have developed a parallel project, based on the team's production of bacterial pigments. In an imagined application, probiotics might be engineered to express different coloured pigments in response to different gut conditions or upsets....allowing self diagnosis of specific ailments by inspection of one's poo. James and Daisy attended the iGEM2009 Jamboree, bearing an aluminium case with a scatalog - a collection of coloured poo. 

Be sure to see details of their parallel project at http://www.echromi.com/
See James' collection of images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesking/sets/72157620815624290/
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ee Daisy's collection of images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandradaisy/sets/72157622584099367/
See Daisy's blog at http://www.daisyginsberg.com/

iGEM news

  • iGEM2010 sponsors We would like to thank everyone who is helping us out with iGEM 2010.   Sponsors at the University of Cambridge:   The School of Biological Sciences,  Department of Genetics,  Department of Plant Sciences,  Department...
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  • iGEM: the student synthetic biology experience iGEM: the student synthetic biology experience by Mun-Keat Looi, Wellcome Trust blog, http://wellcometrust.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/igem-the-student-synthetic-biology-experience/   European teams, including Imperial and...
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  • iGEM2009 sponsors The students and organisers would like to express our thanks to the following companies for help through sponsorship, provision of equipment loans and consumables for the University of Cambridge iGEM2009 team: We would especially like to acknowledge...
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