Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
This homework analyzes a synthetic biology idea and evaluates governance options to support ethical, safe, and responsible innovation.
Week 10 HW: Advanced Imaging & Measurement Technology
This lecture presents a range of advanced technologies to do precision measurement of proteins at atomic scales, characterizing chemical composition, and detecting protein sequence and structure.
Week 11 HW: Bioproduction & Cloud Labs
Cloud laboratories are making science accessible, affordable, and reproducible.
Week 2 HW: DNA Read, Write, & Edit
This homework goes through DNA Sequencing and Editing.
A robot-assisted synthetic biology platform that uses automated, plate-based assays to test how ABO-like glycan contexts influence inflammatory and microbiome-related responses relevant to gastrointestinal disease risk.
Week 4 HW: Protein Design Part I
This week focused on how sequence, structure, and energetics can be modeled and manipulated to create or optimize proteins with specified functions.
Week 5 HW: Protein Design Part II
This week we learned how cutting-edge AI and protein language models are used to design functional proteins and peptides “in silico”
Week 6 HW: Genetic Circuits Part I: Assembly Technologies
This week we learn core molecular biology tools and techniques for processing and assembling DNA, including PCR and Gibson Assembly.
Week 7 HW: Genetic Circuits Part II: Neuromorphic Circuits
This week covers neuromorphic genetic circuits, showing how engineered gene networks can implement neural-network “perceptron”-like computation and learning.
This week introduces synthesis of proteins using cellular machinery outside of a cell.