Hotaku Komatsu — HTGAA 2026

Hotaku Komatsu

Welcome to my How To Grow Almost Anything (HTGAA) Spring 2026 workspace. This is where I document my journey through synthetic biology.

About me

I am a student in the HTGAA 2026 course, exploring the intersection of technology and biology.

Homework

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  Week 1: Principles and Practices Class Assignment 1. Application or Tool to Develop & Why Application: “The Bio-Puzzle” – A hardware-agnostic DNA assembly toolkit using split-protein reporters (e.g., Split-GFP) as physical “checksums” for long-sequence construction.
• Week 2 HW: DNA Read, Write, and Edit

  Week 2: DNA Read, Write, and Edit Part 1 & 2: Gel Art Describe your process of creating Gel Art using Benchling and restriction digests.
• Week 3 HW: Lab Automation

  Week 3: Lab Automation Lab Automation assignment This week, we explored lab automation and its applications in synthetic biology.

Labs

• Week 1 Lab: Pipetting
• Week 3 Lab: Opentrons Art

  Week 3 Lab: Opentrons Art Opentrons Art Lab In this lab, we used the Opentrons OT-2 liquid handling robot to create “art” by pipetting colored liquids into a 96-well plate.

Projects

• Individual Final Project
• Group Final Project