Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  1 Describe a biological engineering application or tool you want to develop and why. An idea for your HTGAA final project / Your current research / A topic you are curious about I would like to develop a biological engineering solution that enables fast-food and beverage chains to produce biodegradable packaging made from their own food waste. The idea is to create a closed-loop system in which organic waste generated by restaurants—such as coffee grounds, food scraps, or plant-based residues—can be processed through bioengineering techniques (such as microbial fermentation, mycelium growth, or biopolymer extraction) and transformed into functional, compostable packaging materials.

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

  Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art See this week’s lab protocol “Gel Art: Restriction Digests and Gel Electrophoresis” for details. Overview: Make a free account at benchling.com Import the Lambda DNA. Simulate Restriction Enzyme Digestion with the following Enzymes:EcoRI, HindIII, BamHI, KpnI, EcoR, VSacI, and SalI. Create a pattern/image in the style of Paul Vanouse’s Latent Figure Protocol artworks. You might find Ronan’s website a helpful tool for quickly iterating on designs! </> Below are the steps I've done to finished this assignment. Account at benchling.com √ Have the .gb file of Lamdba_NEB saved. Upload the .gb file to the platform. Visual display of the structure of the DNA sequence. Very interesting! Start to add a new list of restriction enzymes. Adding them one by one. Using the analyze tool to the right to see the result(s). Patterns I got from each enzyme and all enzymes together. I tried to get a Lychee out of them. Can you see it?