Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  First, describe a biological engineering application or tool you want to develop and why. This could be inspired by an idea for your HTGAA class project and/or something for which you are already doing in your research, or something you are just curious about. I am interested in creating biosensors by using modified bacterial cultures to detect toxins and contaminants in the environment. Currently, to test for substances such as heavy metals, biotoxins, and organic pollutants, we often need expensive and often inaccessible detection tools, such as mass spectrometers and analytical chemistry kits. By creating biosensors out of bacteria, we can simplify contaminant detection.