Team:SUSTC-Shenzhen-A/Project

background Most people might have heard a classic model called prisoners’ dilemma .It is the inspiration of our project . The prisoners’dilemma is a special “game”between two arrested prisoners . What the story tells about is that two suspects were caught by the police and they were questioned in two separated rooms . Because of the lack of evidence , the police could not convict them of the crime. Then ,the police offered them a deal . the sentence that each receives depends both on their own decisions whether to confess or remain the silent and on the decision made by the other.

This case is always used to state that the best choice for the individual is not the best choice for the whole team . Our idea is that we could import two different constructed plasmid into the Ecoli, then we could simulate the prisoners’dilemma by adding different chemicalsubstance which could regulate the expression of the gene when culturing . The growth situations of the two bacteria are the results of their “choices”.