Sofía Segura Cárdenas — HTGAA Spring 2026
Biological Engineering · Medical physics · Space science
About me
Hello! Welcome to my How To Grow (Almost) Anything (HTGAA) - Spring 2026 page.
My name is Sofía, and I am a final-year Biological Engineering undergraduate student. My academic background is mainly focused on biomaterials, biological systems, modeling, simulation and engineering approaches to working with living matter.
Alongside this, my main scientific interests lean strongly toward physics-related fields, particularly medical physics, space medicine, and the study of extreme environments—ranging from radiation effects in matter to broader interests in space and astrophysics.
Contact info
Email: seguracardenassofia@gmail.com
Homework
- Principles & Practices (David Kong, George Church, Joe Jacobson)
Lab: Pipetting
- DNA Read, Write, & Edit (George Church, Joe Jacobson, Emily Leproust)
Lab: DNA Gel Art
- No Lecture this week!
Lab: Opentrons Art
- Protein Design Part I (Thras Karydis, Alex Rives)
Lab: Protein Design I
- Protein Design Part II (Pranam Chatterjee, Gabriele Corso) Lab: Protein Design II
- Genetic Circuits Part I: Assembly Technologies (Doug Densmore, Traci Haddock)
Lab: Gibson Assembly
- Genetic Circuits Part II: Neuromorphic Circuits (Ron Weiss, Evan Holbrook)
Lab: Neuromorphic Circuits
- Cell-Free Systems (Kate Adamala, Peter Nguyen, Ally Huang)
Lab: Cell-Free Systems
- Advanced Imaging & Measurement Tech (Evan Daugharthy, Waters Corp.)
Lab: Mass Spectrometry
- Bioproduction & Cloud Labs (Reshma Shetty)
Lab: Cloud Lab
- Building Genomes (George Church, John Glass, Jef Boeke)
Lab: Bioproduction
- Biodesign & Engineered Living Materials; Frugal Science (Manu Prakash, David Kong) Lab: (Final Project work)
Node - Lifefabs Institute
- HTGAA UK Node (Digby Usher, Danny Chen)
TAs
Homework review sessions & mentorship
Thursdays: 09:00 – 10:00 AM & 21:00-22:00 PM (UK Time)
- HTGAA UK Node (Digby Usher, Danny Chen)
TAs
Labs & extra tutoring sessions
Labs
Projects
The three FP ideas requestes by HTGAA
- Dual-Signal Biosensor for Functional Radiation Dosimetry
- Smart Bacteria for Targeted Oil Spill Cleanup
- Self-Destructing Antimicrobial Biofilms
Project Structure
- Blueprint
- Past projects examples
Self-Destructing Antimicrobial Biofilms
- Bacillus subtilis for AMR and Space Science aplications
- Antimicrobial market and new necessities
- Sequential Logic Circuit and genetic constructs
- Eperimental lab protocol
- Group idea
