Training E.coli: “All E.coli ’s are equal, but some E.coli ’s are more equal than others…” (freely adapted from “Animal Farm” by George Orwell) … this is what George Orwell would have written, were he a synthetic biologist. In the E.coli colonies on petri dishes, all bacteria are equal; except for some special ones. Our project is about designing such special E.coli that are “more equal” than the rest: they have the ability to be trained in order to memorize and recognize their environment in the future. Their story will be presented through this wiki …