Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  Application Idea: The development of an engineered bacterial biosensor for real-time hydration detection as a preventive health measure in aging populations. An engineered skin bacterium, applied as a lotion on the wrist or forearm, could detect body hydration levels and generate an electric current detectable by an electronic wearable component.

• Week 2 HW: dna-read-write-and-edit

  PART 1 Benchling & In-silico Gel Art Make a free account at benchlig.com Import the Lambda DNA Benchling navigation notes for importing the Lambda DNA: Find the Lambda DNA sequence from the NCBI database: GenBank ID number: J02459.1 Copy/Paste GenBank ID number into Benchling:

• Week 3 HW: lab-automation

  1. Create a Python file Generate an artistic design using the GUI at opentrons-art.rcdonovan.com Using the coordinates from the GUI, follow the instructions in the HTGAA26 Opentrons CoLab to write your own Python script that draws your design. 2. Find and briefly summarize a published paper that utilizes laboratory automation to achieve novel biological applications. Paper Kverneland, A., F. Harking, J. M. Vej-Nielsen, M. Huusfeldt, D. B. Bekker-Jensen, I. M. Svane, N. Bache, and J. V. Olsen. 2023. Fully automated workflow for integrated sample digestion and Evotip loading enabling high-throughput clinical proteomics. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.22.573056v1