How To Grow (Almost) Anything | Spring 2026
Explore the course
- Class & recitation times, lab room, office hours, TAs and staff.
- Two types of Final Projects for the course.
- General information about the course.
- This term’s students and their excellent work.
- Our dedicated teaching staff.
- HTGAA-affiliated Global Nodes.
Weeks of HTGAA
- Principles & Practices (David Kong, George Church, Joe Jacobson)
Lab: Pipetting
- DNA Read, Write, & Edit (George Church, Joe Jacobson, Emily Leproust)
Lab: DNA Gel Art
- No Lecture this week!
Lab: Opentrons Art
- Protein Design Part I (Thras Karydis, Alex Rives)
Lab: Protein Design I
- Protein Design Part II (Pranam Chatterjee, Gabriele Corso)
Lab: Protein Design II
- Genetic Circuits Part I: Assembly Technologies (Chris Mason)
Lab: Gibson Assembly
- Genetic Circuits Part II: Neuromorphic Circuits (Ron Weiss, Evan Holbrook)
Lab: Neuromorphic Circuits
- Cell-Free Systems (Kate Adamala, Peter Nguyen, Ally Huang)
Lab: Cell-Free Systems
- Advanced Imaging & Measurement Tech (Evan Daugharthy, Waters Corp.)
Lab: Mass Spectrometry
- Bioproduction & Cloud Labs (Reshma Shetty)
Lab: Cloud Lab
- Building Genomes (George Church, John Glass, Jef Boeke)
Lab: Bioproduction
- Biodesign & Engineered Living Materials; Frugal Science (Manu Prakash, David Kong)
Lab: (Final Project work)
- Bio Design & Bio Fabrication (Suzanne Lee, Christina Agapakis)
Lab: (Final Project work)
Course Application
Anyone, anywhere can sign up to take HTGAA as a Global Student, online and free of charge!
Enrolled MIT/Harvard students can apply to take the course for credit as MAS.885 in the MIT course catalog.
No prior background is required or assumed.
The Spring 2026 semester of HTGAA is under way and applications are closed. Applications for future semesters will open typically in January and August.
