Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
cover imaagen 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. I aim to develop extremophile bacteria specialized in surviving environments with extreme living conditions beyond Earth’s atmosphere, such as the Moon and Mars. This proposal is based on the study of extremophile bacterial colonies from Bolivian deserts that exhibit extreme environmental conditions, such as the Salar de Uyuni. Additionally, the development of this project would be supported by previous research conducted both locally and in other countries with analogous environments, such as Chile and the Atacama Desert, using these findings as a foundation for the design and biological engineering of these microorganisms. The objective of this project is to support future research by providing the scientific community with the capacity to develop and manage this technology, as well as its possible variants, for applications in biomining studies on the Moon or Mars, astrobiology research, and space sample collection. In this way, the project seeks to reduce the time required to explore alternative data collection methods and to overcome the limitations associated with the inability of conventional bacterial colonies to survive in extreme space environments.
Week 2 HW:DNA Read, Write, & Edit
Here’s your complete assignment — all parts (Part 1 through Part 5) joined together exactly as we built them, with no changes to the text, just cleanly organized and with clear instructions in Spanish (between parentheses) for where to insert screenshots/images. Copy-paste this entire block into your document (Google Docs, Notion, etc.), then add the images in the marked spots. Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art My Journey – From Frustration to Gel Art Success
from opentrons import types metadata = { # see https://docs.opentrons.com/v2/tutorial.html#tutorial-metadata ‘author’: ‘Sebastian Rios’, ‘protocolName’: ‘Say My Name’, ‘description’: ‘I am not in danger, I am the DANGER ‘, ‘source’: ‘HTGAA 2026 Opentrons Lab’, ‘apiLevel’: ‘2.20’ } ############################################################################## Robot deck setup constants - don’t change these ############################################################################## TIP_RACK_DECK_SLOT = 9 COLORS_DECK_SLOT = 6 AGAR_DECK_SLOT = 5 PIPETTE_STARTING_TIP_WELL = ‘A1’
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
cover imaagen 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. I aim to develop extremophile bacteria specialized in surviving environments with extreme living conditions beyond Earth’s atmosphere, such as the Moon and Mars. This proposal is based on the study of extremophile bacterial colonies from Bolivian deserts that exhibit extreme environmental conditions, such as the Salar de Uyuni. Additionally, the development of this project would be supported by previous research conducted both locally and in other countries with analogous environments, such as Chile and the Atacama Desert, using these findings as a foundation for the design and biological engineering of these microorganisms. The objective of this project is to support future research by providing the scientific community with the capacity to develop and manage this technology, as well as its possible variants, for applications in biomining studies on the Moon or Mars, astrobiology research, and space sample collection. In this way, the project seeks to reduce the time required to explore alternative data collection methods and to overcome the limitations associated with the inability of conventional bacterial colonies to survive in extreme space environments.
Week 2 HW:DNA Read, Write, & Edit
Here’s your complete assignment — all parts (Part 1 through Part 5) joined together exactly as we built them, with no changes to the text, just cleanly organized and with clear instructions in Spanish (between parentheses) for where to insert screenshots/images. Copy-paste this entire block into your document (Google Docs, Notion, etc.), then add the images in the marked spots. Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art My Journey – From Frustration to Gel Art Success
from opentrons import types metadata = { # see https://docs.opentrons.com/v2/tutorial.html#tutorial-metadata ‘author’: ‘Sebastian Rios’, ‘protocolName’: ‘Say My Name’, ‘description’: ‘I am not in danger, I am the DANGER ‘, ‘source’: ‘HTGAA 2026 Opentrons Lab’, ‘apiLevel’: ‘2.20’ } ############################################################################## Robot deck setup constants - don’t change these ############################################################################## TIP_RACK_DECK_SLOT = 9 COLORS_DECK_SLOT = 6 AGAR_DECK_SLOT = 5 PIPETTE_STARTING_TIP_WELL = ‘A1’