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I'm a Design Technology Masters student at Harvard Graduate School of Design. This page is dedicated to showcasing my progressing on learning bio-engineering and design in Spring 2019's How To Grow (Almost) Anything.

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ASSIGNMENTS
PROJECT _ PROGRESS
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ETHICAL FUTURE OF BIOLOGY

Through research and design, analyze and propose a series of theoretical actions for ensuring non-maleficence in current bio-engineering and design systems.

#ethics #biosafety #systems

BIO PRODUCTION

Test the impact of genes and culture conditions (i.e. temperature and growth media composition) on the production of lycopene in E coli.

#pigment #lycopene #beta-carotene

3d bio printing & biofab

Processing of creating concentration of printable ink and designing CAD files.

#hydrogel #pluronic #3dprint #cad

DNA & Enzymatic Reaction

Reading and annotating the sequence files for a DNA molecule; isolating the DNA from cells, running an enzymatic reaction on it, and showing the change made.

#dna #wetlab #sequence @enzyme

PROTEIN DESIGN

Protein analysis and protein informatics & how to (almost) fold almost anything.

#protein #folding #molecule #visualization

MEASUREMENT & IMAGING

Use Expansion Microscopy (ExM) to to visualize a mouse brain slice with improved resolution on a light microscope.

#hydrogel #pluronic #3dprint #cad

'Zap-pore' electroporator

Hands on hardware exercise for building wetlab instrument.

#electroporator #hardware #fabrication

engineering the gut microbE

Creating a simple microfludics device through digital fabrication

#math #pipeting #celldesign

GENOME ENGINEERING

A beginner's guide at CRISPR-Cas9 and targeting specific amino acid sequences.

#hydrogel #pluronic #3dprint #cad

Next Generation Synthesis

Use synthesized oligonucleotide primers to amplify a PCR product. Assemble a library of protein variants from the PCR amplicons using Gibson Assembly.

#synthesis #gibson #digest #colors #assembly

SYNTHETIC MINIMAL CELL

Simple reaction set up calculation and designing your own synthetic minimal cell.

#math #pipeting #celldesign