Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 - Principles & Practices

  This week lays the foundation for ethics, safety, and governance in biotechnology — and we get hands-on with lab basics.

• Week 2 - 1. Lecture Preparation

  Next lecture will be around how to Read, Write and Edit DNA.

• Week 2 - 2. DNA Read, Write & Edit

  This week explores the read–write–edit toolkit: sequencing and synthesis workflows, restriction digests and gel electrophoresis, and early genome-editing frameworks.

• Week 3 - Lab Automation

  This week we get hands-on (or at least code-on) with pipetting robots

• Week 4 - Protein Design

  This week focuses on how sequence, structure, and energetics can be modeled and manipulated to create or optimize proteins with specified functions.

• Week 5 - Protein Design Part II

  This week we learn how cutting-edge AI and protein language models are used to design functional proteins and peptides “in silico”.

• Week 6 - 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 — 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.