Team:Czech Republic/Practices/Lecture
Lecture
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Motivation
Since our project brings an innovative approach into engineering we wanted to obtain an opinion of young engineers. We had a great possibility to present our project and synthetic biology in general on a lecture Introduction into Cybernetics lead by Prof. Ing. Miloš Schlegel CSc. The response was very positive. Several students even showed deeper interest in synthetic biology and we provided them more information through e-mail.
Lecture
Engineers design systems compoused of simplerer compotents in order to ensure modularity. Modularity of system is huge advantage for its use. Sensor of input signal can be replaced to measure different quantity. Same procedure can be done with almost every component. Diploid IODs arise of two haploids. Thus, their user can conduct many different combinations of sensors (receptors) and output signals (pheromones or yeast display). Another modularity is ensured by communication among all IODs.
One of the main goal of cybernetic is to describe system and be able to know reaction of this system on a concrete input signal. This reaction can be in form of output signal that can be measured and can influence another system. IODs are excellent example of such system. Pheromone represents input signal and output signals are yeast display and another pheromone which is an input signal for another IOD system.
Acknowledgement
Prof. Ing. Miloš Schlegel CSc
Bc. Hynek Kasl