Reading & Resources — Week 1

Lab‑specific

• Unit conversion & significant figures — Crash Course
• Intro to pipetting — YouTube

Governance & ethics

• Protein Design Meets Biosecurity — Church & Baker (Science, 2024)
  Science.org
• Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance — J. Craig Venter Institute
• US Presidential Commission on the Study of Bioethical Issues — “New Directions” report
• WHO Global guidance framework — Mitigating biorisks
• Bold Goals for U.S. Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing — White House (2023)
• National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (interim) — U.S. Senate
• iGEM Safety Hub — 2020 and 2023 Responsibility
• Handbook for Community Biology Spaces — Genspace
• DIYBio Ask a Biosafety Expert — ask.diybio.org
• Rooftop Solar & the Four Levers of Social Change — Ethan Zuckerman