Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  pre-fire post-fire Week 1 Class Assignment First, describe a biological engineering application or tool you want to develop and why. I want to develop a biologically integrated microsensing tool that can detect heavy metal intoxication in living Lemna minor tissue at the cellular level. This idea grew out of a group project facilitated by Dr. Andrew Scarpelli through the ChiTownBio node, where we demonstrated Lemna minor’s ability to phytoremediate heavy metals using a ceramic kiln burnout process to visualize metal accumulation. While this approach confirmed effective metal uptake, its irreversible thermal processing of the plant tissue to generate a readout, making the method qualitative and not easily scalable. Developing a microsensing system that can read biochemical or protein-level responses in living plant cells would allow for more accurate, non-destructive, and low-cost detection of environmental metal contamination.

• Week 2 HW: DNA Read, Write, and Edit

  My HW Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art Part 2: Gel Art - Restriction Digests and Gel Electrophoresis pre post