[DIYbio] Re: International DIY-Bio Project

I was thinking about, for ease of use, Deinococcus radiodurans as a starting bacteria. If you remember one of the discussions I made on "worker cells" this was one of the reasons. Use genetically modified cyanobacteria for photosynthesis inside the Deinococcus radiodurans. Or, use plant plastids to create chloroplasts (since these have already evolved to serve the plants). The reason I think of Deinococcus radiodurans because it is resistant to many of the things already on mars and can be modified with "worker cells" to uptake different niches specifically designed by us. A possibility would be Thiobacillus ferrooxidans with iron oxidation, possibly with a modification to help soil creation.

Now I think that that adding of 2 genomes would be best. Morphing the most resistant bacteria on earth with the genetics of a autotroph would be outstanding.  I also have looked at Martian temperatures and at the equator it would be possible for bacteria to live, however there is very little water. Possibly this enzyme, LEA, could help

http://2010.igem.org/Team:Valencia/Parts

I love your idea Mega, but I do think that they did not think of Mars when creating their bacterium, and potatoes aren't going to be found on Mars, so an entire new bacteria will be needed.

I am planning once I finish my Halobacteria project I am going to start a Mars bacteria one. If anyone has started one, I would LOVE to help on it :D

-Koeng

First of all is Venus. A lot will needed to be added first for successful terraformation such as crashing asteroids into the planet to increase the water level in the atmosphere (mostly for hydrogen) and to speed up the rotation of the planet. After that is complete, the bacterium would be added in different tests lasting about a year (the rotation of Venus, so once the bacteria drop into the void of darkness they die, allowing for increased testing). The entire bacteria would have to use Bacteriorhodopsin since there is no magnesium in the venus atmosphere. They would stay floating using similar mechanisms that the bacteria here on earth use. Now here comes the tricky part. A scientist (gotta get name sorry) calculated that biological systems could not in fact remove all the atmosphere. I, however, propose we create them to as CO2 eatin' as possible, using a cell WALL as the area. Normally cells would use sugar in the wall (plants, but that is WAY not Hydrogen efficient for the planet we are talking about) or protein, but if they only had walls out of a polyanhydride using CO2, then the CO2 consumption would be much greater. Now here is an important part that could only be done in the far off future, using automatic, self replicating robots that use the bacteria as fuel and as a source of plastic for recreating themselves (along with a robotic mini factory on an orbiting metal asteroid). The robots would collect the bacteria and use all of the components for "printing" new robots that would be used to mine or ship things to and from earth. Since the bacteria could be used as (most likely inefficiently though) fuel, the robots could travel throughout the solar systems doing useful things.

Thats one idea; please spell out the things that are totally wrong and impossibru so I can change them

That relates to bio since the enzyme would need to synthetic, possibly using a distributed game, *cough* fold it *cough* for people to help contribute to the project.