Hopefully, everyone in the SEA-PHAGES community is well into the swing of the new semester. Now is a great time to start collecting some institution-specific data and aggregating it into program-wide numbers. In the next couple of days, an email will be sent to SEA-PHAGES faculty inviting them to begin using seaphages.org and entering relevant ...
Count on me: Entering Institutional Data into seaphages.org
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on Oct. 9, 2014 inSequencing Deadlines and Information
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on Oct. 6, 2014 .This year, all "official" (HHMI-supported) SEA-PHAGES sequencing will take place at the University of Pittsburgh. Because schools on the quarter system begin their semesters later, we have two separate deadlines for DNA submission this year.
Deadline for Semester Schools
Please send your genomic DNA so that it arrives in Pittsburgh by November 21, 2014. ...
6th Annual Symposium, June 13-15 2014
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on June 6, 2014 inWe're just a week away from the 6th Annual SEA-PHAGES Symposium. Held at HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, this event brings together faculty and students from every active SEA-PHAGES school. This year, we have over 200 participants with 18 student-presented talks, over 70 student-presented posters, and another dozen or so faculty and ...
SEA-PHAGES Podcast!
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on May 23, 2014 inSounds of the SEA
Wow, we just finished recording the first episode of the official SEA-PHAGES podcast, Sounds of the SEA. We considered calling it TWiPH (This Week in Phage Hunting) to echo Vincent Racaniello's TWiV (Virology) but decided to go in a new direction. Plus, it gave us the opportunity to make lots ...
The need for a new SEA-PHAGES website
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on May 21, 2014 inThe 2014 American Society of Microbiology General Meeting has just concluded, and the Science Education Alliance's Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (SEA-PHAGES) program was one of two featured in the President's Forum (along with Yale and Jo Handlesman's Small World Inititative).
The SEA-PHAGES program began in 2008 as a collaboration between HHMI, the ...