SynBio4ALL - Intermediate Week 4

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SynBio4ALL - Intermediate Week 4 - Homework

This is the homework associated with Lecture 4 - Metabolic Engineering. Remember that you can find links to the slides and lecture recordings on the syllabus.

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[EASY] Name one chemical that can be produced in mass using Metabolic Engineering

1 point

[EASY] Give one example of microbial chassis mentioned in the lecture or organism that has been used for industrial chemical bioproduction

1 point

[EASY] Provide one example of Enzyme Discovery or Enzyme Engineering strategy to improve metabolic engineering workflow.

1 point

[EASY] Explain why Synthetic Biologists and Metabolic Engineers are looking for predictive pipeline and automation method.

1 point

[MEDIUM] Give one example of Optimization method in Metabolic Engineering. Briefly describe how it could help optimize the bioproduction.

2 points

[MEDIUM] Explain why using microbes to make chemicals is preferred over plant or mammalian systems.

2 points

[HARD] Propose a metabolic engineering method to produce chemicals or bioproducts not mentioned during the class. Explain why you want to make this compound with this method.

Carefully propose which genes/pathways need to be introduced to arbitrary organisms to enable bioproduction of this compound.

You are encouraged to provide references for your chemical, organisms, and genes/pathways of choices.

5 points

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