Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  Assignment 1 1. Gen Z and other young consumers are increasingly choosing scents based on mood versus identity, and their desire to use fragrance as a tool for communication and emotional intelligence is reshaping the fragrance market. The application I’ll be discussing this week - and my idea for a final project - is the development of a novel scent (perfume) called “Force Ambrosiaque”, a biological and chemical engineering-informed fragrance system that passively modulates its emitted scent profile in response to the wearer’s physiological state, without electronics, sensors, or living organisms.

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

  Part 1: Benchling and In-silico Gel Art I started this week with great ambition. Frankly, that faded pretty fast! Initially, I wanted to only use enzymes that started with letters in my name (Katharine) but that was over-ambitious given the time I had available to devote to the exercise this week. I had a couple ideas in mind for design… a space invader; the Windows logo. I had used Benchling before (in fact I’m trying to design a competitor) but was a bit rusty, so it took me a second to get my bearings. Following the documentation provided (thank you!) and playing around a bit with Ronan’s website for some inspiration, I was able to kind of make “HI”. Initially, I also included an exclamation point, but it just wasn’t translating. See below for screenshots of my viewer and the final PNG. Enzymes were selected and arranged according to the steps outlined in the provided protocol.