Course Logistics

Schedule / Location

Course Leadership

• Director: Dr. David Sun Kong — dkong@mit.edu
• Head TA: Alex Tran — alextran@mit.edu
• HTGAA/HTBAA Co-Founders: Dr. David Sun Kong, Prof. George Church, Prof. Joseph Jacobson

Grading

Course FAQ

Looking for more information about the course? Check out the HTGAA/HTBAA Course FAQ.

Syllabus

• Information on Lectures, Recitations, Labs
• Recordings of all those including Site Visits
• Homework and Reading & Resources

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Final Projects

Throughout the term each student defines and executes a Final Project and then presents their work before the class as a culmination of their semester. This applies to all students including local for-credit MIT/Harvard students as well as the Global “Committed Listeners” who present their projects on Zoom to the Course Instructors, Lecturers and Teaching Staff (note that this presentation is one of the requirements for Committed Listeners).

For your Final Project, write up your design, methods, and results on your HTBAA webpage following the guidelines below. You will also create a presentation and present it live:

• MIT/Harvard students: present from your writeup on your HTBAA webpages and have a 6-minute presentation time limit
• Global Committed Listeners: prepare 3 Google slides and present those 3 slides from a shared Google Slides deck with a 3-minute presentation time limit.

Please practice your presentation a few times and time yourself to polish your delivery and to be sure it fits within the time constraints!

Slide guidelines for Global Committed Listener presentations:

• You will be presenting entirely from the shared slide deck with the moderator advancing slides; the moderator will not follow links outside the deck during the presentation. (Links are allowed for later reference, but will not be used while presenting.) Since the moderator is advancing slides, it’s best if you don’t use any click-to-animate steps in your slides.
• Do not change the time of your presentation or relative position of your slides in the shared slide deck.
• Use text which is large enough to be readable when the slide is presented inside a Zoom window on a laptop screen. Resist the urge to cram text on the slide in tiny font!
• Create your slides inside Google Slides (in any deck, probably first in your own private slide deck, later copying into the shared deck when that is provided), not in graphic design tools like Canva (which will usually result in attractive slides which are unreadable on Zoom). Place text inside text boxes on the Google Slide, place images in individually, etc. Don’t paste in one big image per slide with all slide content!
• These slides are not posters; don’t try to fit a poster’s worth on content on a slide, it will be unreadable. The restriction to 3 slides is also not a challenge to see if you can fit 4 or 6 or 8 slides on each of your slides.
• Start making your slides early! Don’t wait for the shared deck to begin creating your slides; the shared deck will only be available to copy your slides into a couple days before the deadline.
• Don’t edit the “themes” or “page setup” in the slide deck! You’ll be sharing a deck and themes with all CLs. Apply any styling edits directly on your 3 slides. After pasting your slides into the shared deck, click “Slideshow” there in the shared deck to see what your slides will look like during final presentations and avoid any unpleasant surprises.
• If you don’t have your slides in the shared deck by the deadline, you will not be able to present your final project (a required step for Committed Listeners).
• Join for as much of the final presentations as possible to support your classmates and colleagues, but show up in zoom at least 15 minutes before your own presentation time. We may be running ahead of or behind schedule, so be as early as you can, and be prepared to stay as late as you can.

Students

Registered Students and Committed Listeners

MIT/Harvard Presenters via “Natural” Selection

Global Students and Global Nodes

TAs/Node Staff

All MIT/Harvard BioClub Tokyo Biopunk Lab BUGSS ChiTownBio Designer Cells Lab Genspace Hartnell College Iowa State Lifefabs Institute Ottawa Bio Science SynBio USFQ Victoria Makerspace William & Mary

Abhishek Udawat

(Peterborough, Canada)

Ada Yazan

(Lisbon, Portugal)

Ahmad Hader

(Amman, Jordan)

Ainy Danish

(Peshawar, Pakistan)

Alex Tran

(Cambridge, MA, USA)

Alexander Proaño Artieda

(La Armenia, Ecuador)

Alireza Hekmati

(Bujnord, Iran)

Alonso Reyes-Calderón

(Lima, Peru)

Amanda Mainello-Land

(Baltimore, MD, USA)

Amparo Saavedra Riquelme

(Santiago, Chile)

Ana Ibarra-Castro

(Salinas, California, USA)

Ananda Gabo

(Tokyo, Japan)

Anastasia Arkhipenkova

(Incheon, South Korea)

Anastasia Bernaz

(Vancouver, Canada)

Andrea Denisse

(Quito, Ecuador)

Andrea Tambo

(La Paz, Bolivia)

Andrew Scarpelli

(Chicago, USA)

anna shen

(london, london)

Annel Andrea Leon Tenorio

(San Francisco, USA)

Annie Xing

(Cambridge, USA)

Ashan Wettasinghe

(Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Asma Khalil

(Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Azmine Toushik Wasi

(Cumilla, Bangladesh)

Beatriz Mesquita

(Lisbon, Portugal)

Benjamin Arias Almeida

(Santiago, Chile)

Brandon Nieves

(Chicago, USA)

Cale Harrison

(London, Uk)

Carlos Silveira

(Barcelona, Spain)

Celia Schaefers

(Williamsburg, USA)

Chien Lu

(Jersey City, USA)

Cholpisit (Ice) Kiattisewee

(Cambridge, USA)

Cyrus Clarke

(Cambridge, US)

Damaris Ganchozo

(Guayaquil, Ecuador)

Data Cheuk Kwong Ng

(Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong SAR)

David Chau

(New York City, USA)

Derek Jacoby

(Victoria, BC, Canada)

Digby Usher

(London, United Kingdom)

Dominika Wawrzyniak

(New York City, USA)

Eduarda Pérez

(Quito, Ecuador)

Eduardo Goicoechea Serrano

(Leamington Spa, United Kingdom)

Elizabeth (Liz) Vink

(San Diego, USA)

Elliot Roth

(San Francisco, USA)

Eskalalita Dini

(Surabaya, Indonesia)

Esther Choi

(Cambridge, USA)

ethan itovitch

(montreal, Canada)

Evan Holbrook

(Cambridge, USA)

Geoffrey Enwere

(Cambridge, USA)

Georg Tremmel

(Sapporo, Japan)

Greg Galperin

(Cambridge, USA)

Gustavo Muro Marchani

(Montreal, Canada)

Hansen Jonathan

(Bandung, Indonesia)

Hanzhang Lai

(Cambridge, USA)

Heather Qian

(Williamsburg, USA)

Hyunseo Kwon

(Incheon, Korea)

Inger Le Gué

(Leiden, Netherlands)

Irendra Wijewardana

(Liege, Belgium)

Isabella Ortega

(Quito, Ecuador)

James (Jihwan) Lee

(Boston, USA)

Jay Handfield

(Cary, NC, USA)

Jenny Wang

(Vancouver, Canada)

Jhanic Ramos

(Salinas, USA)

Jia-En Danny Chen

(London, United Kingdom)

Jieming Chu

(Boston, USA)

Joel Tyson

(Baltimore, USA)

Joshua Hong-En CHEN

(London/ Bordeaux, UK/ France)

Juan Diego Unda

(Chester, England)

Kate Carline

(Williamsburg, USA)

Kate Melanson

(Ottawa, Canada)

Kavya Sreekanth

(Bengaluru, India)

Kencho Wangdi

(Punakha, Bhutan)

Kourosh Afshinjoo

(Tehran, Iran)

Laura Jarboe

(Ames, Iowa, USA)

Lisa Scheifele

(Baltimore, USA)

Madeline Eibner-Gebhardt

(Williamsburg, USA)

Marco Mancini

(Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Margaret Saha

(Williamsburg, USA)

Margaux Reynolds

(Los Angeles, USA)

Mariana Valdez

(Puebla, Mexico)

Mario Nakahara

(Tokyo, Japan)

Martina Armas

(Quito, Ecuador)

Masato Takemura

(Hamamatsu, Japan)

Matthew Berkshire

(London, United Kingdom)

Md Rasel Uddin

(Jashore, Bangladesh)

Meghan Kane

(Berlin, Germany)

Melany Jumbo

(Quito, Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador)

Michelle Yue

(Boston, USA)

Najmuj Sakib

(Ames, Iowa, USA)

Nana Agyei Afrane-Asare

(Accra, Ghana)

Natalia Piórecka

(Innsbruck, Austria (primary); London, UK (sporadically), Austria (primary); United Kingdom (sporadically))

Neha Suresh

(Austin, Texas, USA)

Nour Abdelrahman

(Cairo, Egypt)

Olga Chekhov

(Toronto, Canada)

Patrick Han

(Incheon, Korea)

Paula Rojas

(Bogotá, Colombia)

Piyush Acharya

(Bellevue, USA)

Pu (Paul) Kao

(Taipei, Taiwan)

Ren Ramlan

(Cambridge, USA)

Ricky Cordova

(Cambridge, MA, USA)

Robina Khan

(Peshawar, Pakistan)

Rolando Perez

(Salinas, USA)

Ronan Donovan

(Cambridge, MA, USA)

Sally Kong

(New York, USA)

Serena Wessely

(New York City, USA)

Shanice Otersen

(Oslo, Norway)

Shu Ou

(Los Angeles, USA)

Sofia Guerra

(Cambridge, USA)

Sophia Liao

(Cambridge, USA)

Steven Ness

(Victoria, BC, Canada)

Suvin Sundararajan

(Cambridge, US)

Thanakrit (Austin) Wongsatit

(Daejeon, South Korea)

Val Thompson

(Chicago, USA)

Valeria Rodriguez Espinoza

(Munich, Germany)

Vanessa Romero

(Quito, Ecuador)

Vince Geisler

(Victoria, Canada)

Xavier Rios Salinas

(Stockholm, Sweden)

Xavier-Lewis Palmer

(Williamsburg, USA)

Yash sawant

(Mumbai, India)

Yehuda Binik

(Brooklyn, New York, USA)

Yousif Graytee

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Global Nodes

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