(Note: Basing this format on
https://2026a.htgaa.org/2026a/course-pages/final-projects/individual/index.html )
SECTION 1: ABSTRACT: Large-format Animated Opentrons Art
The idea here is to create large format and animated Opentrons art mosaics, by developing my lab automation and fluorescent bacteria skills to the point where I can create larger format artwork from multiple petri dishes. Shown above is a fairly quick test I made of trying to design rotating DNA strands in seven petri dishes of Opentrons agar art. For this, my art/design will emphasize the colors that show up best in fluorescent bacteria art; for example, green, red, and blue. My main synthetic biology challenges are 1) Can I create new custom color(s) biodesigned by me, based on existing mScarlet? and 2) Can I design fluorescent proteins with hidden DNA messages from my ancestors?