Schedule
Class: Tuesdays 2-5pm ET @E15-341 & Zoom
Recitation: Wednesdays 5-6pm ET @E15-359 & Zoom
MIT Lab Hours: See “Course Logistics” below. 68-083
MIT Office Hours: Available upon request
Global Recitations: Organized by each Global Node via Zoom (see below).
Class Content
Content will be updated on a rolling basis, usually after each week’s lecture.
Contact
Dr. David S. Kong, Head Instructor: dkong[at]mit.edu
Suvin Sundararajan, Head Teaching Assistant: suvinsun[at]mit.edu
Course Homepages:
MIT/Harvard Students
Homework & projects of in-person Students from MIT & Harvard
For registered MIT and Harvard students taking this class in person, grades will be administered under the following rubric:
Lecture, Recitation, and Lab Attendance and Participation | 33% |
Weekly Assignments (Class Write-ups and Lab Documentation) | 33% |
Final Project (Group work and individual project) | 34% |
Global Nodes & Committed Listeners
The Committed Listeners are currently assessed on participation, final project presentation and homework. The students list might change.
BioClub Tokyo, Japan
Class Reviews: Thursdays 21:00 JST, Homework Reviews: Mondays 21:00 JST @BioClub Zoom
Abhilaya Makkuva:
Abhilaya Makkuva, HTGAA 2025
Ada Yazan:
HTGAA 25 Ada Yazan, Lisbon, Portugal
Alireza Hekmati:
Alireza Hekmati HTGAA-2025
Anandita Amalia:
Anandita Amalia | HTGAA 2025
Aprajita Shukla:
HTGAA 2025 || Aprajita Shukla
Arisa Tani: How to Grow (Almost) Anything | Arisa Tani
Aryan Choudhary: Aryan | How to Grow (Almost) Anything 2025
Azmine Toushik Wasi:
HTGAA | Azmine Toushik Wasi
Chairunnisa Amanda:
Chairunnisa (Amanda): HTGAA25
Dr. Data Cheuk Kwong Ng:
Data Cheuk Kwong NG, PhD
Elif Dilan Gündüz:
Elif Dilan Gündüz-HTG(A)A 2025
Eskalalita Mutamassika Dini:
Eskalalita Mutamassika Dini
Farhani Syafwani:
Farhani Syafwani - HTGAA 2025
Hansen Jonathan:
Hansen’s HTGAA Journey
Kavya Sreekanth: HTGAA 2025: Kavya Sreekanth
Malika Tulenbergenova: No access
Md Rasel Uddin: Weekly work for HTGAA
Muhammad Samudra Ilham:
HTGAA 2025
Nina Kurowska:
Nina Kurowska
Robina Nematullah Khan: Robina Khan’s HTGAA Journey
Rushda Parveen: Rushda Parveen
Syed Tauheed Ahmad:
Syed Tauheed - Learning how to grow (almost) anything
Yash Sawant:
Yash’s HTGAA
Cellsius, San Francisco, US
Global Recitations Tuesdays + Thursdays, 1800 - 2100 PT, Sundays Open Lab Days 14:00 - 17:00 PT, Global Opentrons Labs, In-person experiments
Matthew Berkshire, Chicago, USA: Matt’s HTGAA 2025 Website
Etai Sapoznik, San Francisco, USA: Etai’s HTGAA25’
Jenny Wang, Vancouver, Canada:
MIT HTGAA 2025 - Jenny Wang
Divya Srinivasan, Berkeley, USA: HTGAA Spring 2025
Heike Rapp, San Francisco, CA:
2025 HTGAA homework
Designer Cells Lab at Yonsei University, Incheon, South Korea
Class & Homework Reviews in collaboration with BioClub Tokyo, In-person Labs, Opentrons
Ahmad Hader, Amman, Jordan: No access
Xavier Rios, Sucre, Bolivia: Xavier Alexandro Rios Salinas
Yousif Graytee, Baghdad, Iraq: Yousif Graytee
Hyunseo Kwon, Incheon, Korea: Hyunseo Kwon HW Page
Anastasia Arkhipenkova: https://narrow-aunt-42b.notion.site
Genspace, New York, US
In-person labs: Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30pm ET, Thursdays 6:00-7:00pm ET
Anastasia Bernaz, Abbotsford, Canada:
HTGAA 2025 - Anastasia Bernaz
Amparo Saavedra, Santiago, Chile:
Amparo Saavedra Riquelme, HTGAA 2025
Amy Chien, NYC, USA: Amy’s 2025 HTGAA page
César Rubio, Santiago, Chile:
César Rubio’s HTGAA 2025 Webpage
Chien Lu, Jersey City, US:
CHIEN LU: HTG[A]A 2025
David Chau, New York, USA:
David Chau HTGAA
Oscar Schrag, Brooklyn, USA:
Oscar HTGAA 2025
Nikhil Kumar, NYC, USA: HTGAA 2025
Patrik Artell, Lidingö, Sweden: HTGAA25: Advanced Bioengineering Frameworks
Sohum Patnaik, NYC, USA: Sohum Patnaik — HTGAA 2025 Website
Tanisha Shaw, NYC, USA:
HTGAA 2025 || Tanisha Shaw
Teddy Toussaint: This is the site of Teddy Toussaint for the course How To Grow Almost Anything 2025.
William Eliot, NYC, USA: William Eliot - HTGAA 2025 (NEW)
Yehuda Binik, NYC, USA: New page
Lifefabs Institute, London, UK
Global Recitations, Opentrons & In-person Live-Streamed HTGAA Labs
Global Recitations: Thursday 09:00-10:00 and 21:00-22:00 BST (GMT+1)
Adelina Krusteva, London, UK:
Personal Page
Alejandro Mena, Toledo, Spain: Homework HGAA 2025 from AMC
António Couto, Lisboa, Portugal: HTGAA 2025- António Couto
Asma Khalil, Abu Dhabi, UAE:
HTGAA
Auda Sakho, London, United Kingdom: Homework Link Missing
Ava Chan, Oxford, UK:
2025 HTGAA
Beatriz Mesquita, Lisbon, Portugal:
Beatriz Mesquita
Cale Harrison, London, United Kingdom: HTGAA 2025
Chloe Lee, London, UK: HTAGG - Chloe Lee
Cindy Orbegoso, Cambridge, UK: Cindy’s HTGAA 2025 Website
Defne Karagul, London, UK: Defne Karagul - HTGAA 2025
Eduardo Goicoechea, Leamington Spa, UK:
HTGAA 2025 MAIN HUB
Esraa Alkhalil, Daraa, Syria:
Esraa Alkhalil | HTGAA 2025
Federico Brunello, Naples, Italy:
HTGAA 2025 - Federico Brunello - Committed Listener
Folasewa Abdulsalam, Ramat-Gan, Israel:
Welcome to Folasewa Abdulsalam MIT HTGAA’ Notion Page
Hana Urukalovic, London, UK: HTGAA 2025 Hana Urukalovic
Holly Adams, Barcelona, Spain: Holly Adams
Irendra Wijewardana, Utrecht, Netherlands:
Irendra Wijewardana: HTGAA 2025
Kourosh Afshinjoo, Tehran, Iran:
Kourosh Afshinjoo
László Cseresznyés, Lisbon, Portugal:
László Cseresznyés - HTGAA 2025
Mehmet Erkan Ozseyhan, Bursa, Türkiye: Mehmet’s MIT HTGAA 2025
Mikhail Bagirov, Maastricht, the Netherlands:
Mikhail Bagirov | HTGAA 25’
Muhamad Muhamad Alkriz, Aleppo, Syria: Muhamad Muhamad Alkriz
Paula Rojas, Bogotá, Colombia:
Paula Rojas Guerrero
Richard Machoka, Nairobi, Kenya: Tackling Snakebite menace in Africa: Diagnostics, Snake Venon toxin neutralization and Synthetic Virus-Like Particle (VLP) as potential Vaccines
Taline Frantz, Lisboa, Portugal:
Taline Frantz
Ottawa Bio Science, ON, Canada
Node Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:30pm ET, Global Recitations: Thursdays 2:00-3:00pm EDT, In-person lab: On demand, Saturday 3:00 - 5:00pm ET
Alexander Proaño: HTGAA 2025 Alexander Proaño, La Armenia
Berenice Ferruzca, Queretaro, MX: HTGAA 2025
David J. Castillo. CDMX:
David J. Castillo PhD (HTGAA, GLOBAL LISTENER-2025)
Ethan Itovitch, Montreal, Canada:
Ethan’s HTGAA Page
Kate Melanson, Ottawa, Canada: How to Grow Almost Anything 2025 (HTGAA)
Mariana Valdez, Puebla, Mexico:
Mariana’s HTG(A)A 2025
Paul Romero, Quito, Ecuador: HTGAA 2025
Toma (teimurazi) Goch, Magdeburg, Germany: Welcome to my homeworks
Valeria Rodriguez, Munich, Germany: HTGAA Valeria’s portfolio
SynBioGenetics USFQ, Quito, Ecuador
Node Office Hours: Wednesdays (only-in person) & Thursdays 2-3pm ET, Global Recitation: Wednesdays 3-5pm ET, In-person Lab: Thursdays 2-5pm ET
Alison Cabrera, Quito, Ecuador:
How To Grow Almost Anything 2025 - Cabrera, A.
Alonso Reyes-Calderon, Lima, Peru: Alonso Reyes-Calderon HTGAA 2025 Website
Anahi Nacato, Quito, Ecuador:
HTGAA 2025-AN
Damaris Ganchozo, Guayaquil, Ecuador:
HTG[A]A 25’| Damaris Ganchozo
David Vaca, Quito, Ecuador: My HTGAA Page by David Vaca
Eduarda Pérez, Quito, Ecuador:
Eduarda Pérez
Elvio Rodríguez Araya, Rosario, Argentina: Elvio Rodríguez Araya
Isabella Ortega, Quito, Ecuador: Isabella Ortega’s HTGAA Workspace
Jorge Moreano, Quito, Ecuador: Jorge Moreano
Kelly Zúñiga Vera, Quito, Ecuador:
Kelly Nicole Zúñiga Vera
María J. Méndez, Cali, Colombia:
My SynBio Diary
Melany Jumbo, Quito, Ecuador: HTGAA 2025- Melany Jumbo
Rodrigo Tamayo, Santiago, Chile: Rodrigo Tamayo's HTGAA webpage
Vanessa Romero, Quito, Ecuador: Vanessa Romero
Yasmine Yaakoubi, Tunis, Tunisia:
HTGAA25/Yasmine Yaakoubi
Victoria Makerspace, BC, Canada
Homework Reviews: Tuesdays 6pm PT, Global Recitations: Thursdays 6pm PT, Global Opentrons Lab & In-person lab (only committed listeners)
Elizabeth Vink, San Diego, USA:
Elizabeth Vink’s 2025 HTGAA Website
Marlene Taja, SLP, Mexico:
Taja’s HTGAA 2025
Gustavo Muro Marchani, Calgary, Canada:
Gustavo Muro Marchani HTGAA
Andrea Tambo, La Paz, Bolivia:
HTGAA 2025 Andrea Tambo
Piyush Acharya, Bellevue, USA: https://piyushacharya.notion.site/htgaa
Teaching Assistants
Head TA:
Suvin Sundararajan (Harvard)
MIT/Harvard TAs:
Ronan Donovan (MIT)
Lauren “Ren” Ramlan (MIT)
Michelle Yue (Harvard)
Itamar Chinn (MIT)
Anna-Thérèse Mehra (Harvard)
Diogo De Souza (Harvard)
Becky Perelman (Harvard)
Cathy Guo (Harvard Wyss)
Jieming Chu (Harvard Wyss)
Johannes Stein (Harvard)
Kevin Tang (Harvard)
Raoul Fuerst (Harvard)
Kyuho Jang (MIT)
Kanna Momose (MIT)
Lennart Justen (MIT)
Global Teaching Assistants
• Adrian Filips (Ottawa Bio Community, Canada)
• Alejandro (Alec) Cadillo-Valverde (Lima, Peru)
• Benjamin Arias (SynBio Genetics USFQ, Ecuador)
• Chien-Yueh Liu (Macau, China)
• Delia Garrido-Jara (Santiago, Chile)
• Derek Jacoby (Victoria Makerspace, Canada)
• Digby Usher (London, UK)
• Dominika Wawrzyniak (NYU, USA)
• Elaine Regina (FabLab Bali, Indonesia)
• Eric Wang (Taipei, Taiwan)
• Georg Tremmel (BioClub Tokyo, Japan)
• Greg Galperin (Cambridge, MA, USA)
• Inger Le Gué (Leiden, Netherlands)
• Jia-En (Danny) Chen (London, UK)
• Joshua Chen (London, UK)
• Juan Diego Unda (Chester, UK)
• Jun Ha (UCSD, USA)
• Kateryna Ivanova (Dresden, Germany)
• Marco Mancini (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Margaux Reynolds (Los Angeles, USA)
• Mario Nakahara (Tokyo, Japan)
• Martina Armas (SynBio Genetics USFQ, Ecuador)
• Meghan Kane (Berlin / NYC)
• Natalia Piórecka (Innsbruck, Austria)
• Neha Suresh (Raleigh, NC, USA)
• Onkar Date (London, UK)
• Paul Kao (Taipei, Taiwan)
• Paula Rivas (Prague, Czech Republic)
• Quratulain (Ainy) Danish (Pakistan)
• Rana Said (Tufts University, USA)
• Sally Kong (Genspace, Brooklyn, NYC, USA)
• Shanice Otersen (Vejle, Denmark)
• Shu Ou (Los Angeles, USA)
• Steven Ness (Victoria, BC, Canada)
• Thanakrit (Austin) Wongsatit (VISTEC, Thailand)
• Trammy Lai (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
• Vivian Chen-Yu Hsin (Taipei, Taiwan)
• Will Collins (Halifax, NS, Canada)
• Yala Sampaio (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Acknowledgments
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Twist Bioscience, Opentrons, ThermoFisher, Nuclera and ValleyDAO for HTGAA 2025. The course wouldn’t be possible without you!