About

What if everyone, everywhere had access to synthetic biology education and techniques?

Building upon the tradition of ‘How to Make (Almost) Anything,’ we are offering ‘How to Grow (Almost) Anything,’ a course to teach bio-enthusiasts of all backgrounds the principles and skills at the cutting edge of bioengineering and synthetic biology.

Class Instructors & Lecturers

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Schedule

Class: Tuesdays 2-5pm ET @E15-341 & Zoom

Recitation: Wednesdays 6-8pm ET @E15-341 & Zoom

In-Person Office Hours: Post Recitation Wednesdays, and Thursdays 3:30-4pm ET

Committed Listener Homework Review & Office Hours (Virtual): Thursdays 9-10am ET and 5-6pm ET via Zoom

Class Content

Content for HTGAA 2024 will be updated on a rolling basis, usually after each week’s lecture.

Classes 2024

Teaching Assistants

• Suvin Sundararajan (Harvard) • Harkamal (Hark) Jhajj (Harvard) • Michelle Yue (Harvard) • Anna-Therese Mehra (Harvard) • Mariana Garcia-Corral (Harvard) • Taylor Lanosky (Harvard) • Lisa Riedmayr (Harvard) • Patrick Han (Harvard) • Raphael Ferreira (Harvard) • Ahmed Ibrahim Mahas (Harvard) • Manvitha Ponnapti (MIT) • Eyal Perry (MIT) • Evan Holbrook (MIT) • Sebastian Kamau (MIT) • Nathan Blumofe (Boston) • Felix Radford (Harvard) • Zijian (Carl) Ma (Harvard) • Nikil Badey (Harvard) • Caroline Zhang (MIT) • Jessica Weber (Harvard) • Cedric-Pascal Sommer (Harvard) • Ido Calman (MIT) • Esther Mintzer (Harvard)

Global Teaching Assistants

• Adrian Filips (Ottawa Bio Community, Canada) • Alison Dell (NYC / Philadelphia) • Anastasiya (Nastya) Yatsuk (Brooklyn, NYC) • Anjali Chadha (London, UK) • Benjamin Arias (IMUSFQ, Ecuador) • Bhavna Pandya (Bioriidl, Mumbai, India) • Carlos Silveira (Brazil) • Chienyueh Liu (Macau, China) • Danny Chen (London, UK) • Derek Jacoby (Victoria Makerspace, Canada) • Dominika Wawrzyniak (NYU, USA) • Elaine Regina (FabLab Bali, Indonesia) • Elliot Roth (Biopunk Society, San Francisco, USA) • Fotis Koutoulakis (Oxford, UK) • Georg Tremmel (BioClub Tokyo, Japan) • Greg Galperin (Cambridge, MA, USA) • Harry Akligoh (Northeastern University, USA) • Inger Le Gué (Leiden, Netherlands) • Ioana Milea (T. U. Munich, Germany) • Jim Valiant (Jenner, Alberta, Canada) • Juanjo Rubio (Navarra, Spain) • Jun Ha (UCSD, USA) • Kalaumari Mayoral Peña (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico) • Karolina Sulich (NYU Tandon, USA) • Meghan Kane (Berlin / NYC) • Nour Alhoda Mohamed (Egypt) • Phoebe Oldach (Oxford / London) • Quratulain Danish (Pakistan) • Rana Said (Tufts University, USA) • Sally Kong (Genspace, Brooklyn, NYC, USA) • Samriddhi Rastogi (India) • Sarah Khan (Peshawar, Pakistan) • Steven Ness (Victoria, BC, Canada) • Sudarshan GC (Naples, Italy) • Thanakrit (Austin) Wongsatit (VISTEC, Thailand) • Viola Arduini (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) • Vlasta Kubusova (Bratislava, Slovakia) • Will Collins (Halifax, NS, Canada)

Students

In-person Students from MIT & Harvard

(Almost) Natural Selection

• Ben Lerman • Kevin Tang • Jade Chongsathapornpong • Lennart Justen • Kyuho Jang • Ya Qin

• Gabriele Corso • Gauri Agarwal • Keunwook Kim • Nikhil Lal • Frank (Haotian) Cong

Global Committed Listeners

The following Global Committed Listeners completed the course in Spring 2024 and earned a Certificate of Completion.