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-We discussed two Claire Pentacost Readings-[http://www.clairepentecost.org/beyond_face.htm Beyond Face ] and [http://www.clairepentecost.org/lab%20of%20symbolic_text.htm Critical Inventory of BioArt ]. | -We discussed two Claire Pentacost Readings-[http://www.clairepentecost.org/beyond_face.htm Beyond Face ] and [http://www.clairepentecost.org/lab%20of%20symbolic_text.htm Critical Inventory of BioArt ]. | ||
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We spent the day in NCBS picking up some standard biological techniques-Gel electrophoresis | We spent the day in NCBS picking up some standard biological techniques-Gel electrophoresis |
Revision as of 06:26, 22 May 2009
Contents
People
Ideas
-bacteria that prevents corrosion
-Time keeper or clock
-Combustible bacteria
-Related to weather - smell of rain
-Bacteria that is resistant to Scientific Probing/Instruments
-Mirror of bacteria
-Buoyant bacteria
-Interactive bacteria(painting)
-Another creature made from bacteria
-Bacteria and sound
- Bacteria visualizations. (Both colour changes and 'choreographed' movement)
-Neuro transmitters- bacteria as sensors for emotions
-Glue
-Bacteria that detects cravings
-Magnetic bacteria
-Self mutating Bacteria
-Lie detector
-Bacteria creates an identity
-Bacteria becoming material on death
-Constructing a 'Bacterial Ecology'
-Bacteria that acts like oil
- A lubricant - A liquid that can withstand high temperatures
- Facilitate a group of children to design their 'perfect creature' through visual/tactile media and then draw from these experiences and ideas to build another structure.
- Basic information on micro biology-synthetic biology becomes accessible in the forms of brochures/charts/posters in the team's work space.
Workshop
May 15th
-We discussed two Claire Pentacost Readings-Beyond Face and Critical Inventory of BioArt .
-The gist of the Pentacost readings were that artists work with the symbolic and that the Artist's consent to work and learn in public is important. -We also discussed the political and cultural implications of Scientific Authority. -We also looked at Tuur Van Balen's Urban Geography project -Most of the Ideas[see above] today, dealt with the use of bacteria as -a) A sensor or Reactor - (to Inputs,emotions,light..etc) -b) A Producer (of energy, proteins..etc) -c) A Material
-Is there Any way in which we can look at Bacteria from a purely non-symbiotic / non-anthropomorphic viewpoint? -Can we use our technological "progress" to give a non-selfish gift back to our ecological siblings?
-Replace financial transactions with Bacteria
May 16th
Here's some creatures we created using techno-scientific jargon and aesthetics:
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Id bacteria-Akash
Today's reading was called Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generation by Donna Haraway.
-The article is primarily a review of the Australian artist Patricia Piccinini's work and a recapitulation of Haraway's philosophies .
-One of the things enduring about the reading was her appeal to "love" our creations, not in a tech.no- phillic sense but in a more nurturing and caring way.
May 17th
Hybrid creatures from mythology:
Mukund
People at NCBS-study
-Molecules -MacroMolecules -Cells -Tissues -Organs(very few people in NCBS study organs) Organs on their own might themselves not be Intersting -Body -Populations(Families, Groups of Individuals- Populations in really large Scales) -Ancient DNA.(Samples from fossils)
Process
Powders cutting DNA, Sequencing DNA Machines: Microscopes, Influencing movement of molecules Electrophysiology- Studying Neurons
All the process' are used to answer all the questions.
DNA sequencing is very slow, so nothing much seems to be happening. To truely understand this, you need to go through an entire excercise.
Microscope
-4 people
DNA experiment -5 people
Everybody wants to do both and then we can switch
Tomorrow at about 10 in the morning we go through microscopy and half a round of DNA
and on wednesday we finish the DNA experiment
for the last 10 years the image is acquired on film or CCD chips once the image is done we look at the digital image and we can look at the file and then extract the images.
use MATLAB for image processing.
What are the big questions in Biology?
what were the big questions in biology
-Evolution -Cell structure? (became important after the microscope). -Before darwin it was about classifications and taxonomy. -traits of offspring-how this information was transmitted. -Homunculus-babies grow into bigger babies.
-Where are these instructions stored?
studying diseases-they saw aberrations in chromosomes studying chromosomes during meiosis
In the 40;s the big question was -how does DNA store and transmit information -DNA contains information ATCG: -Allows you to replicate the information.
Hargobind Khurana figured out - -How to read the information -the series of letters help you make a protien-insulin
Since the 40,50's the questions haven't changed that much:
-If you give me the full genome of the organism- I have no idea what that means-I can guess what protiens it produces... how does an animal form from the genome? No idea. How signals in cells work? No Idea. Can you make life from scratch? No idea.
Today in factories, we can synthesize every molecule in a cell but we cannot synthezice a cell
we can synthezise a virus(not a living thing)
we cannot make a cell?
cells do self organizations.
cells don't need to make themselves from scratch-It happened once in history
that is THE BIG questions of synthetic biology
how does the brain work is the other big questions
Mukund works with E-Coli . Ecoli has been studied for about 100 years, we know almost everything about E-coli( genes, proteins, shape and structure)
E coli has 4000 genes, it can make 4000 different protiens
the length of its genes is 4 million base pairs
you need atleast 3 letters to make an amino acid
it however only makes a 1000 protiens
There's some stuff called Junk dna, which is primarily misunderstood
--Switch--->Controller---->genes------>
we take genes and the switches that regulate them and make these circuit
make a DNA(switch) Gene(switch) DNA(switch)
then inject this into a cell
the cell runs the program.
Why not just have a bunch of Genes? Why have a network
cells need to be clever cell needs to process information/when it is hot AND wet do something
can we make a switch from scratch that responds only when the sugar is high AND temperature is high
What else can switches do that genes cannot do: There are something called emergent properties, the collection of
oscillator
memory.
positive feedback.
Also understanding real cells:
Building instrumentation
Making cells from scratch.
May 19th
We spent the day in NCBS picking up some standard biological techniques-Gel electrophoresis And looking at some of the microscopy equipment at NCBS.
-Mukund's Brief Overview on Synthetic Biology Basics
-Streaking and Spreading to obtain bacterial colonies
Discussion over Lunch
The whole group including Mukund and Yashas sat together at lunch and did a quick recap of the day's activities till then and what we learnt from engaging in each of them. We then discussed our ideas for the iGEM project. While doing this, we also discussed the feasibilty and success rate of each of them. The few major workable ideas that were arrived at were -
- Enabling E.coli to give out the smell of rain when it secretes dopomine (the enzyme reponsible for the emotion love) - Experimenting with sound and the bacteria's reactions to it in different forms.
The whole idea of using olfactory glands as a sensor for experiments rather than the usual visual or aural glands seems exciting.(during coffee??)
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May 21
We put down all the information that we had about learnt about geosmin. We then put down the various paths we could take in order to produce the results we wanted. This exercise cleared certain doubts we had, but also raised a lot of questions.
First Prototype of the Bacteria
Readings
Art and Politics
Claire Pentecost::Beyond Face[1]
Claire Pentecost::Outfitting the Laboratory of the Symbolic: Towards a Critical Inventory of BioArt[2]
Donna Haraway::Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations[3]
Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr::The ethics of experiential engagement with the manipulation of life
Art
GeneAeshetics, The Art of Joe Davis[4]
Adam Zaretsky[5]
Patricia Piccinini[6]
Science
What are bacteria?[7]
Planet of the Bacteria[8]
Introductory Video Lectures in Biology[9]
Design & Technology
Urban BioGeography[10]
Designer Bacteria may have a future in Fashion[11]
Sunlight to Oil via Designer Bacteria[12]
Loop.ph-Design Research Studio[13]
Laughing in a sine curve- Abhishek Hazra[[14]
Some interesting bio-design stuff by Brandon Ballangee and the likes. [[15]]
Synthetic Biology:
Gel Electrophoresis [16]
Extracting DNA at home [17]
Harvard 2006: Explaining their process[[18]]
The Synthetic Biology Comic[[19]] The .pdf version is here:[20]
Introduction to Biological Engineering Design [21]
Introduction to Synthetic Biology[22]
Ibio Seminars [23]
General Design Links
http://psd.tutsplus.com/drawing/the-role-of-sketching-in-the-design-process/