HTGAA 2025: Lead TA and Recitations
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In 2025, I returned to How To Grow (Almost) Anything (HTGAA) as a lead teaching assistant. Moving from committed listener to teaching helped me connect the course’s broad ideas with the practical questions students encounter when they begin designing and building biological systems.
My contributions included bootcamp teaching and recitations, helping students work with DNA sequences and connect computational design with laboratory experiments.
Selected teaching materials
- Benchling Basics — DNA Languages, Reading and Editing: my bootcamp session introducing DNA-sequence work and in-silico design. Explore the bootcamp materials.
- Gel Art, Benchling, and Twist: recitation materials connecting restriction digests, DNA visualization, sequence design, and DNA synthesis. View the recitation slides.
- Lycopene and Beta-Carotene Bioproduction: materials for discussing engineered pathways and the design choices behind microbial production. View the bioproduction slides.
Explore the HTGAA 2025 course archive for the full schedule, recordings, assignments, and lab resources.