https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/index.htmlAbout me I am a fourth year medical student from Taiwan with a focus on orthopedics. I speak three languages: English, Mandarin, and German. My favorite artist is Salvador Dalí! I am a curious person who asks a lot of questions, and I can’t wait to ask even more in this course!!Hugoenhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/2week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/2week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.htmlProject: Bone Implant Surfaces, Grown Microbially 🦴 01 🧬 1. What do you want to make? Titanium implants are mechanically strong and osseointegrate well in many patients, but they are biologically inert at the interface. In a meaningful subset of cases, aseptic loosening and fibrous encapsulation still cause failure. Plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite is already used clinically, but the high-temperature process and rapid cooling cause instability in vivo. At the other extreme, hydroxyapatite sintered at high temperature is highly crystalline but brittle, and osteoclasts can barely resorb it, so it can persist in the defect for years and resist remodeling 1.https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.htmlProject: Bone Implant Surfaces, Grown Microbially 🦴 🧬 1. What do you want to make? Titanium implants are mechanically strong and osseointegrate well in many patients, but they are biologically inert at the interface. In a meaningful subset of cases, aseptic loosening and fibrous encapsulation still cause failure. Plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite is already used clinically, but the high-temperature process and rapid cooling cause instability in vivo. At the other extreme, hydroxyapatite sintered at high temperature is highly crystalline but brittle, and osteoclasts can barely resorb it, so it can persist in the defect for years and resist remodeling 1.https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-02-hw-dna-design/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-02-hw-dna-design/index.htmlBuilding the CsgA-PhoA Bone-Mimetic Circuit 🦴 Week 2 Chassis: E. coli Bone-mimetic biofilm project Jump to: Strain choice · Motivation · Circuit design · Build steps · Debugging · Open question · AI usage · References 🧫 Strain choice Bauer et al. used E. coli K-12 W3110 for their alkaline phosphatase biofilm mineralization work, but didn’t explain why. [1]https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-03-hw-cell-free/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-03-hw-cell-free/index.htmlAI assistance disclosure: I used an AI assistant (Claude) for brainstorming and feedback on this assignment, including ideas for how to approach the composition design and help with formatting this page. The written answers below are my own. Note on this submission: Note on this submission: I have an exam on Thursday and ran out of time this week. The three compositions are first pass submissions, not optimized designs, and some of the questions are only partly answered or left for next week. I’d like to keep working on this course, so I’ll replace the placeholders with properly calculated compositions and complete the remaining answers by next week.https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-04-lab-cloud-lab/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-04-lab-cloud-lab/index.htmlhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-05-hw-digital-microfluidics/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-05-hw-digital-microfluidics/index.htmlhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-06-lab-nuclera/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-06-lab-nuclera/index.htmlhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-07-hw-mass-spec/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-07-hw-mass-spec/index.htmlhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-09-hw-genetic-circuits/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-09-hw-genetic-circuits/index.htmlhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-10-lab-mammalian-manufacturing/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/week-10-lab-mammalian-manufacturing/index.htmlhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/final-project/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/ivy-hung/final-project/index.html