https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/index.htmlAbout me Hey :) I’m Wanqi (Yuki) Fang, a first-year MDes Ecologies student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I am coming from a culture, technology, and sustainable business background, with a focus on sustainability and the relationship between technological innovation, business, and environmental change. My current interests are in biomaterials, manufacturing, and how sustainable materials can move beyond small-scale experimentation toward real-world production. I’m especially interested in how biology and new manufacturing technologies might create materials that can compete with conventional ones in performance, cost, and scalability.Hugoenhttps://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.html(1) What would you like to biomanufacture and why? Can we program biology to manufacture a fiber with a specific mechanical function that apparel currently relies on petrochemical elastane to provide?https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/week-02-hw-dna-design/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/week-02-hw-dna-design/index.htmlPart 0 — Kernel Setup I created a Kernel repository named yuki-selp-elastic-fiber, with a project folder named selp. Part 1 — Expression Target For this project, I am designing an expression system for SELP-59-A—a recombinant silk-elastin-like protein. I chose SELP-59-A as a starting point because my longer-term project asks whether a biologically produced protein could eventually provide some of the elastic function currently provided by elastane in performance textiles. At this stage, I am not assuming that SELP-59-A itself can replace elastane. Instead, I am using an existing and experimentally demonstrated protein as a baseline that I could later modify and test.https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/week3-cell-free/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/week3-cell-free/index.htmlA. COMPARE CELL-FREE REACTION COMPOSITIONS (20 minutes) Why does the concentration of potassium glutamate and magnesium glutamate differ between compositions? Which is more sensitive? The concentrations of potassium glutamate and magnesium glutamate differ between formulations because CFPS performance depends on the chemical environment, so reagent concentrations need to be optimized together. Magnesium appears to be more sensitive because its concentration may need to be re-optimized for different lysate batches, and the reading also notes that protein synthesis depends nonlinearly on free Mg²⁺ and nucleotide concentrations.https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/final-project/index.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/wanqi-yuki-fang/final-project/index.html