L14: 14 Lectures past and 1 1 to go Part 'The cell as a well-stirred bioreactor topICs Lambda phage lysis-lysogeny switch Synthetic genetic switch Switches as memory storage Chemotaxis: perfect adaptation or not? Synthetic genetic oscillators main assumption Well-stirred reactor absence of chemical gradients (justification: small cells, diffusion mixes)L14: 14 Lectures past and 11 to go Part I: ‘The cell as a well-stirred bioreactor’ 1 topics - Lambda phage lysis-lysogeny switch - Synthetic genetic switch - Switches as memory storage - Chemotaxis: perfect adaptation or not? - Synthetic genetic oscillators main assumption - well-stirred reactor - absence of chemical gradients (justification: small cells, diffusion mixes)