Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Principles and practices 💼 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. Purification of enzymes for natural pigment synthesis facilitated by microalgal cell wall release
DNA read, write, and edit 🧬 Part 1: Benchling and in-silico gel art The genome of the λ-phage was imported and virtually digested with the following restriction endonucleases: EcoRI, HindIII, BamHI, KpnI, EcoRV, SacI, and SalI before being visualized on Benchling’s agarose gel simulator (Figure 2.1).
Lab automation 🦾 Python script for Opentrons artwork Consistent with this week’s highly automated and digitized theme, for this assignment, I drew inspiration from an image popularized by the Internet, KC Green’s web comic strip “On Fire”, which, in 2014, became a famous -and my personal favorite- online meme (Figure 3.1). As many other people from all over the world, I deeply relate to this meme, which, I feel, accurately describes my life.