Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
- First, describe a biological engineering application or tool you want to develop and why. Daptomycin is the one of the novel lipopeptide antibiotics, that has high clinical relevance, owning to is effectiveness against multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria, such as vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), establishing its rule as a last resort antibiotic, one of the drawbacks of daptomycin is its expensive price tag, which puts a load on the patient treated and the health system due to the laborious work required with it, I want to decrease the cost for daptomycin by removing some of the genes required for its manufacturing, and using protein engineering to compensate for the removed genes by increasing affinity of one substrate over the other, and finally, design a de-novo enzyme for the lipid tail addition process to daptomycin.
Assignment: Python Script for Opentrons Artwork: For this assignment I wanted to draw something that’s representative of me, I really like chemistry, so I wanted to draw a test tube at first :)I thought to myself that it would be so lame to if it was just straight up a test tube, I tried to tilt it a little bit and to add some bubbles using different shades, I realized quickly however that I don’t know how to draw a curve nor a tilted line :(