Labs
Lab writeups:
Special Note: As a Committed Listener without lab access, documentation within my page is for purely acknowledgement purposes. There were no explicit instructions for Committed Listeners to submit lab work for this week, and with that, I reviewed the material. This lab covered standard lab practices and review.
Special Note: As a Committed Listener without lab access, documentation within my page is for purely acknowledgement purposes. There were no explicit instructions for Committed Listeners to submit lab work for this week, and with that, I reviewed the material. This lab covered gel art through restriction digests and gel electrophoresis.
Special Note: The Homework for this class included the Post-Lab Questions. For ease of interprertation, the Post-Lab is reposted below and to ease documentation. Further, the other parts of the homework were placed after. There were no other explicit instructions for Committed Listeners that were not already within the homework, so other aspects of this lab were relegated to purely review. In this lab, we were tasked with creating a design that could be generated by an OpenTrons Liquid Handling Robot.
Week 4 Lab: Protein Design Part I
Special Note: As per (https://2026a.htgaa.org/2026a/course-pages/weeks/week-04/index.html), “Lab work this week is contained within the homework assignment below.”. This week’s Lab work was effectively part of this week’s Homework. This is reflected in Part D of the week 4 homework but is reposted below for ease. Part D. Group Brainstorm on Bacteriophage Engineering As follows, the assigned work was:
Week 5 Lab: Protein Design Part II
Special Note: This week’s Lab work was effectively part of this week’s Homework. This is reflected in Part C of the week 5 homework. As per (https://2026a.htgaa.org/2026a/course-pages/weeks/week-05/index.html), “Lab work this week is contained within the homework assignment below.”.
Week 6 Lab : Genetic Circuits Part I: Assembly Technologies
Special Note: As a Committed Listener without lab access, I was excused from this and documentation within my page is for purely acknowledgement purposes. There were no explicit instructions for Committed Listeners to submit lab work for this week, and with that, I reviewed the material.
Week 7 Lab : Genetic Circuits Part II: Neuromorphic Circuits
This week’s lab had a dry and wet component. As a Global Comitted Listener without lab access, I was excused from the wetlab component. I joined for the dry component over which were were allowed to work as a team. That said, what follows are snapshots of our work. The focus was the building of our own IANN. Pre-Lab | Overview Download Neuromorphic Wizard: download this folder NeuromorphicWizard onto your machine by clicking “Download all” in the upper right. Follow the instructions in ‘README.md’ for a step-by-step installation guide.
This was a free week and was not obligatory to mark. This week was used to exploration of course materials and Final Project development.
Special Note: As a Committed Listener without lab access, documentation within my page is for purely acknowledgement purposes. There were no explicit instructions for Committed Listeners to submit lab work for this week, and with that, I reviewed the material. Homework, shown on the page of Week 9 is reposted here to ease interpretation and documentation. General homework questions Explain the main advantages of cell-free protein synthesis over traditional in vivo methods, specifically in terms of flexibility and control over experimental variables. Name at least two cases where cell-free expression is more beneficial than cell production. Cell free expression allows teams to conduct biomanufacturing without living cells and operate beyond the constraints of productions in living systems.
Mass Spectrometry Special Note: As a Committed Listener without lab access, documentation within my page is for purely acknowledgement purposes. There were no explicit instructions for Committed Listeners to submit lab work for this week, and with that, I reviewed the material. The appendix listed figures to be used for the homework. These were downloaded and posted below for documentation purposes. See: “Appendix – Figures from Lab work to be used for Homework” from https://2026a.htgaa.org/2026a/course-pages/weeks/week-10/lab/index.html
Week 11 Lab: Introduction to Cloud Laboratories
Special Note: This assignment was a combined homework and laboratory assignment that was reflected in both the homeowork and lab. What follows is a repost of what was asked from the laboratory page, as answered from the homework page post. Part A: The 1,536 Pixel Artwork Canvas | Collective Artwork Contribute at least one pixel to this global artwork experiment before the editing ends on Sunday 4/19 at 11:59 PM EST! A personalized URL was sent to the email address associated with your Discourse account, and you can discuss the artwork on the Discourse! If you did not have a chance to contribute, it’s okay, just make sure you become a TA this fall! 😉
Week 12 Lab: Bioproduction of Beta-Carotene and Lycopene
Special Note: This lab had both a section mandatory for all students and one especially for committed listeners. Post Lab Questions | Mandatory for All Students (References supplied from lab: A) Du W, Song Y, Liu M, Yang H, Zhang Y, Fan Y, Luo X, Li Z, Wang N, He H, Zhou H, Ma W, Zhang T. Gene expression pattern analysis of a recombinant Escherichia coli strain possessing high growth and lycopene production capability when using fructose as carbon source. Biotechnol Lett. 2016 Sep;38(9):1571-7. doi: 10.1007/s10529-016-2133-0. Epub 2016 Jul 5. PMID: 27379652.
Week 13 Lab: Final Project Labwork
From Page (https://2026a.htgaa.org/2026a/course-pages/weeks/week-13/lab/index.html) “No Lab Assignment this week.” “Final Project Lab time available” If your final project requires lab work, you can schedule a block of lab time this week."
Week 14 Lab: Final Project Labwork
From Page (https://2026a.htgaa.org/2026a/course-pages/weeks/week-14/lab/index.html) “No Lab Assignment this week.” “Final Project Lab time available” If your final project requires lab work, you can schedule a block of lab time this week."