Broad Audience Title

Optimizing engineered bacterial systems for industrial applications

Scientific Title

Improving the specificity of quorum sensor LasR in bacterial consortia using site-directed and saturation mutagenesis

By Vanessa Diem Mi Vu
Biomedicine/Biosystems
iCons Year 4
2021
Optimizing engineered bacterial systems for industrial applications
Executive Summary 

Synthetic biology is a growing field of research that can be applied to many industries including the biomedical industry. Issues such as antibiotic resistance can be solved with engineered bacterial systems. These engineered bacterial systems can be controlled to execute certain desirable functions or behaviors, such as killing off pathogenic bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. With engineered bacterial systems having so much potential in the biomedical field, it is important to continue staying updated to advance this field.

Problem Keywords 
engineered bacteria
biomedicine
biomedical
synthetic
Scientific Keywords 
quorum sensing
microbial consortia
synthetic biology

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