Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

  • Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

    Project concept Insect Movement Memory I want to develop a living material surface that can register insect movement by responding directly to the chemical traces insects naturally leave behind. Instead of using cameras, sensors, or tracking software, the material itself would act as both sensor and display, making insect presence visible through temporary marks that emerge, accumulate, and fade over time.

  • Week 2 HW: DNA r/w/e

    Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art 1. Setup I created a Benchling account and opened the Lambda DNA sequence (NC_001416). Initially I had another plasmid open (pBR322_EGFR), but I switched to Lambda DNA after confirming the correct assignment requirements.

  1. Importing Lambda DNA I opened the Lambda phage genome (NC_001416, ~48.5 kb) inside Benchling. The sequence map displays multiple restriction enzyme sites distributed across the genome.