Researchers bring new meaning to the term 'computer bug'

1. Engineering bacteria to solve the Burnt Pancake Problem
Karmella A Haynes, Marian L Broderick, Adam D Brown, Trevor L Butner, James O Dickson, W L Harden, Lane H Heard, Eric L Jessen, Kelly J Malloy, Brad J Ogden, Sabriya Rosemond, Samantha Simpson, Erin Zwack, A M Campbell, Todd T Eckdahl, Laurie J Heyer and Jeffrey L Poet
Journal of Biological Engineering (in press)

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2. The researchers utilized “BioBricks” which are documented and distributed by the MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts (partsregistry.org) as a component of the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) competition (www.igem.org).

3. Karmella A. Haynes is currently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute teaching-research postdoctoral fellow at Davidson College, Davidson, NC. She joined the Davidson College International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) team as a faculty leader after earning her Ph.D. in molecular genetics at Washington University, St. Louis, MO. She earned her B.S. in biology at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL. Karmella will be continuing her work in synthetic biology as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

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