1. (20 pts) You have picked up a summer job working at a grain processing company. The company is interested in determining how their modified starch's thermal properties differ from the current starch on the marketplace. Your grain processing company has asked you to investigate the situation. What instrumentation will you use and why? Thoroughly explain the experimental conditions that you will need to consider and what decisions you will make while handling this project. Additionally, explain how you will assess and convey the data output. 2.) Your graduate school P.I. has tasked you with evaluating the interactions between a bacterial binding protein and the peptidoglycan portion of a gram-positive bacterium. Recommend a technique that would be best suited for this situation. Elaborate upon the experimental conditions that will need to be considered as well as how you plan to evaluate and use the data from the experiment. Note: Drawing mock data may be beneficial to making your case. 3. (20 pts) You somehow (I do not know) end up traveling back in time and working for IBM Zurich in the mid-20h century. Two of your colleagues are working on a technique to move individual atoms. What technique would you recommend the scientists develop? Explain your recommendation. Additionally, you foresee the design of this instrument running into a few hurdles. What hurdles do you think need to be addressed while developing the instrumentation and how do you recommend the two scientists address these hurdles? Note: Ignore any time traveling paradoxes. 4 (20 pts) As the new Neurochemistry professor at Monmouth College, Dr. Holle has been working on comparing nerve cell dendrite diameters based upon proximity to the central nervous system. However, Monmouth College does not have the appropriate instrumentation to accurately measure dendritic systems. Dr. Holle has been too distracted writing unnecessarily verbose Chem 340 exam questions and he has asked you to help write a grant to win funding to study these systems. What instrumentation do you use as the focus of the grant? Explain your decision while elaborating upon the purpose of each piece of the proposed instrumentation and explain, in detail, what is bemg detected by the instrument and how that will answer the research questions. 1. (20 pts) You have picked up a summer job working at a grain processing company. The company is interested in determining how their modified starch's thermal properties differ from the current starch on the marketplace. Your grain processing company has asked you to investigate the situation. What instrumentation will you use and why? Thoroughly explain the experimental conditions that you will need to consider and what decisions you will make while handling this project. Additionally, explain how you will assess and convey the data output. 2.) Your graduate school P.I. has tasked you with evaluating the interactions between a bacterial binding protein and the peptidoglycan portion of a gram-positive bacterium. Recommend a technique that would be best suited for this situation. Elaborate upon the experimental conditions that will need to be considered as well as how you plan to evaluate and use the data from the experiment. Note: Drawing mock data may be beneficial to making your case. 3. (20 pts) You somehow (I do not know) end up traveling back in time and working for IBM Zurich in the mid-20h century. Two of your colleagues are working on a technique to move individual atoms. What technique would you recommend the scientists develop? Explain your recommendation. Additionally, you foresee the design of this instrument running into a few hurdles. What hurdles do you think need to be addressed while developing the instrumentation and how do you recommend the two scientists address these hurdles? Note: Ignore any time traveling paradoxes. 4 (20 pts) As the new Neurochemistry professor at Monmouth College, Dr. Holle has been working on comparing nerve cell dendrite diameters based upon proximity to the central nervous system. However, Monmouth College does not have the appropriate instrumentation to accurately measure dendritic systems. Dr. Holle has been too distracted writing unnecessarily verbose Chem 340 exam questions and he has asked you to help write a grant to win funding to study these systems. What instrumentation do you use as the focus of the grant? Explain your decision while elaborating upon the purpose of each piece of the proposed instrumentation and explain, in detail, what is bemg detected by the instrument and how that will answer the research questions