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Brune KD, Bayer TS, 2012, Engineering microbial consortia to enhance biomining and bioremediation, FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, Vol: 3

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Davidson EA, Windram OPF, Bayer TS, 2012, Building Synthetic Systems to Learn Nature's Design Principles, EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, Vol: 751, Pages: 411-429, ISSN: 0065-2598

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Voigt CA, Bayer TS, 2011, Biological systems for the production of commercially valuable compounds, US 2011/0165618A1

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Bayer TS, 2010, Transforming biosynthesis into an information science, NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, Vol: 6, Pages: 859-861, ISSN: 1552-4450

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Bayer TS, 2010, Using Synthetic Biology to Understand the Evolution of Gene Expression, CURRENT BIOLOGY, Vol: 20, Pages: R772-R779, ISSN: 0960-9822

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Bayer TS, Widmaier DM, Temme K, Mirsky EA, Santi DV, Voigt CAet al., 2009, Synthesis of Methyl Halides from Biomass Using Engineered Microbes, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol: 131, Pages: 6508-6515, ISSN: 0002-7863

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Bayer TS, Hoff KG, Beisel CL, Lee JJ, Smolke CDet al., 2009, Synthetic control of a fitness tradeoff in yeast nitrogen metabolism., J Biol Eng, Vol: 3

BACKGROUND: Microbial communities are involved in many processes relevant to industrial and medical biotechnology, such as the formation of biofilms, lignocellulosic degradation, and hydrogen production. The manipulation of synthetic and natural microbial communities and their underlying ecological parameters, such as fitness, evolvability, and variation, is an increasingly important area of research for synthetic biology. RESULTS: Here, we explored how synthetic control of an endogenous circuit can be used to regulate a tradeoff between fitness in resource abundant and resource limited environments in a population of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We found that noise in the expression of a key enzyme in ammonia assimilation, Gdh1p, mediated a tradeoff between growth in low nitrogen environments and stress resistance in high ammonia environments. We implemented synthetic control of an endogenous Gdh1p regulatory network to construct an engineered strain in which the fitness of the population was tunable in response to an exogenously-added small molecule across a range of ammonia environments. CONCLUSION: The ability to tune fitness and biological tradeoffs will be important components of future efforts to engineer microbial communities.

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Beisel CL, Bayer TS, Hoff KG, Smolke CDet al., 2008, Model-guided design of ligand-regulated RNAi for programmable control of gene expression, MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, Vol: 4, ISSN: 1744-4292

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Tabor JJ, Bayer TS, Simpson ZB, Levy M, Ellington ADet al., 2008, Engineering stochasticity in gene expression, MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS, Vol: 4, Pages: 754-761, ISSN: 1742-206X

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Bayer TS, Booth LN, Knudsen SM, Ellington ADet al., 2005, Arginine-rich motifs present multiple interfaces for specific binding by RNA, RNA, Vol: 11, Pages: 1848-1857, ISSN: 1355-8382

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Bayer TS, Smolke CD, 2005, Programmable ligand-controlled riboregulators of eukaryotic gene expression, NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY, Vol: 23, Pages: 337-343, ISSN: 1087-0156

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