Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Class Assignment 1. First, describe a biological engineering application or tool you want to develop and why. I want to develop a membraneless organelle within plant cells that is able to detect breakage of the cell membrane by a foreign organism. This organelle, which is comprised of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), would trigger immune system responses upon detection. The purpose of this organelle is to detect and shut down fungal plant pathogens that infect through breaching cell membranes. This novel application would lower yield loss in rice plants (primarily Oriza Sativa) from fungal diseases like Rice Blast (Magnaporthe grisea) which is responsible for 10%-30% yield losses every year for rice, preventing the possibility of feeding about 60 million people.
Week 2 HW: DNA Read, Write, & Edit
Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art Info This is a picture of the gel art I designed on Benchling. The bands in the 1-6 ladders create the word “Hi” on completion. The restriction enzymes used on the Lambda DNA are listed above the diagram.
Assignment: Python Script for Opentrons Artwork This is a link to the code for my Opentrons Artwork. AI Contributions: I used AI to generate large portions of my code as I am largely unfamiliar with python programming. I used Gemini AI and asked it to integrate my coordinates for my artwork into the code in Colab.