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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.
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| 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 real Andy. Image courtesy of UT/UCSF. | This is a coliroid of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Image courtesy of UT/UCSF. |
Device implementation
This system consists of two devices.
- A light sensor which takes red light as an input and produces PoPS as an output.
- A color generator which takes a PoPS signal as input and generate color as an output.
Diagram courtesy of Drew Endy.
Parts implementation
This diagram shows the list of parts that make up each of the two devices.
Diagram courtesy of Drew Endy.
For details on system implementation, see the reference at the bottom of this page.
BioBricks parts list
Light sensing parts
Color generating parts
Related parts
Contact
- System design and implementation by Anselm Levskaya, Aaron Chevalier, Jeff Tabor, Laura Lavery, Matthew Levy, Eric Davidson, Alexander Scouras, Andy Ellington, Ed Marcotte, and Chris Voigt.
References
Papers
- Engineering Escherichia coli to see light
Nature 24 November 2005 DOI:10.1038/nature04405
A. Levskaya et al.
URL Pubmed Hubmed
Other
- MIT Biological Engineering laboratory module on bacterial photography developed by Natalie Kuldell
- Instructions for how to build a "light cannon" for use in bacterial photography.
