Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

  • Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

    Class Assignment — DUE BY START OF FEB 10 LECTURE (1) 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.

  • Week 2 HW: Read, write & edit

    Homework Week 2 Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art Import the Lambda DNA. Simulate Restriction Enzyme Digestion with the following Enzymes: EcoRI HindIII BamHI KpnI EcoRV SacI SalI Create a pattern/image in the style of Paul Vanouse’s Latent Figure Protocol artworks.

  • Week 3 HW: Lab automation

    Homework Week 3 Post-Lab Questions One of the great parts about having an automated robot is being able to precisely mix, deposit, and run reactions without much intervention, and design and deploy experiments remotely. For this week, we’d like for you to do the following:

  1. Find and describe a published paper that utilizes the Opentrons or an automation tool to achieve novel biological applications.