Featured Parts:Light Sensor

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System overview

From Levskyaya et al.

We have designed a bacterial system that is switched between different states by red light. The system consists of a synthetic sensor kinase that allows a lawn of bacteria to function as a biological film, such that the projection of a pattern of light on to the bacteria produces a high-definition (about 100 megapixels per square inch), two-dimensional chemical image.

Sample photos

Here are a selection of sample coliroid taken with the bacterial photography system.

http://openwetware.org/images/9/9a/Macintosh_HD-Users-nkuldell-Desktop-bacterialselfportrait.jpg http://openwetware.org/images/8/83/UT_HelloWorld.jpg http://openwetware.org/images/thumb/d/d1/ColiroidEllington.png/200px-ColiroidEllington.png http://openwetware.org/images/6/68/ColiroidFSM.jpg
[http://openwetware.org/wiki/Jeff_Tabor Jeff Tabor] holding a coliroid.
Photo credit: Marsha Miller, University of Texas at Austin. Image courtesy of UT/UCSF. 		Hello World coliroid published in Levskaya et al., Nature, 2005. This is a coliroid portait of Andy Ellington. You can compare it with the [http://www.icmb.utexas.edu/images/faculty/ellington.jpg real Andy]. Image courtesy of UT/UCSF. This is a coliroid of the [http://venganza.org Flying Spaghetti Monster]. Image courtesy of UT/UCSF.


Device implementation

Parts implementation

BioBricks parts list

System parts

Related parts

Contact

  • System design and implementation by [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Levskaya Anselm Levskaya], Aaron Chevalier, [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Jeff_Tabor Jeff Tabor], [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:LLavery Laura Lavery], Matthew Levy, Eric Davidson, Alexander Scouras, [http://ellingtonlab.org/ Andy Ellington], Ed Marcotte, and [http://www.voigtlab.ucsf.edu/ Chris Voigt].
  • This summary was assembled by [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Reshma_Shetty Reshma Shetty].

References

Papers

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  1. Levskaya-Nature-2005 pmid=16306980

</biblio>

Other

  • [http://openwetware.org/wiki/BE.109:Systems_engineering MIT Biological Engineering laboratory module] on bacterial photography developed by [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Natalie_Kuldell Natalie Kuldell]
  • [http://openwetware.org/wiki/LightCannon Instructions] for how to build a "light cannon" for use in bacterial photography.