Labs

Lab writeups:

Subsections of Labs

Week 1 Lab: Pipetting & 3D Printing Protein

For this lab, we practised pipetting and also 3D printed our proteins of choice

pipetting

3D printing of our proteins of choice

Week 2 Lab: DNA Gel Art

DNA Gel Art process pictures

Week 3 Lab: Lab Automation

For this lab we first practised pouring the black agar plates and learnt about how to grow bacteria

then on a separate day we tested the automation on OT-2 and made our images

final result!! (see code in hw week 3)

Week 4 Lab: Protein Design Part I

Contained within the homework

Week 5 Lab: Protein Design Part II

Contained within the homework

Week 7 Lab: Microfluidics Lab

Process pictures from the microfluidics lab. I wanted to make something I could potentially use for my project, so in this, each chamber represents a controlled signalling condition that would allow parallel evaluation of threshold-based cellular responses. This is a strategy to enable experimental testing and evaluation of local interaction rules that underpin cellular automata behaviour in engineered biological systems, but in short, and more factually, it’s a 2-input microfluidic gradient generator with parallel observation chambers and controlled outflow

Week 9 Lab: Cell-Free Systems

Process pictures from cell free lab

Week 11 Lab: CRISPR Lab

Process pictures from the lab

Week 12 Lab: Bioproduction Lab

Process pictures from the lab