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Abstracts for the 2025 SEA Faculty Meeting
Faculty-Presented Abstracts
TopicInstitutionFaculty ContactTitleLast ModifiedFiles

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Austin Community College Eastview Campus Kissaou Tchedre
kissaou.tchedre@austincc.edu
Student Reflections on the SEA-PHAGES Discovery Experience: Spring 2025 Cohort at Austin Community College May 7, 2025
12:21 p.m.
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Baylor University Jonathan Lawson
Jonathan_Lawson@baylor.edu
(fold)Seeking to Make Sense of Genome-Wide AlphaFold Data May 15, 2025
12:48 p.m.
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Benedictine University Tiara Perez Morales
tperezmorales@ben.edu
Shouldn’t You Be Blocking That Phage? Initial Characterization of Cluster AY and AS1 Lysogens in Arthrobacter globiformis B-2979 May 16, 2025
4:59 p.m.
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Colorado State University-Pueblo Amaya Garcia Costas
amaya.garciacostas@csupueblo.edu
ParB-like nuclease from FH phage Prairie May 18, 2025
1:08 a.m.
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Emory University Nic Vega
nic.vega@emory.edu
Lysogeny and prophage domestication in cluster AS3 phage Atlantica May 16, 2025
5:42 p.m.
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Hope College Joseph Stukey
stukey@hope.edu
An essential A1 immunity repressor gene in the F2 mycobacteriophage Soul22 May 12, 2025
2:04 p.m.
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Isolation and Genomic Characterization of New Phage(s)
(Cluster A)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Viknesh Sivanathan
sivanathanv@hhmi.org
bb Apr 29, 2025
1:40 p.m.
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(Cluster )
Illinois Wesleyan University Rick Alvey
ralvey@iwu.edu
The Weird Phages We’ve Found Using Alternative Hosts over 10 Years May 15, 2025
12:49 p.m.
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Kansas State University Martha Smith-Caldas
mscaldas@ksu.edu
Tips On How to Organize the Semester to Fit “Further Discoveries” May 15, 2025
12:17 p.m.
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La Sierra University Arturo Diaz
adiaz@lasierra.edu
Functional Characterization and Protein Interaction Analysis of Mycobacteriophage Amelie's Toxic Gene 47 May 15, 2025
11:18 a.m.
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Monmouth College Eric Engstrom
eengstrom@monmouthcollege.edu
Is Pham 210844 of EA1 Cluster Bacteriophages an ASCE Superfamily ATPase? May 16, 2025
10:51 a.m.
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Montana Technological University Marisa Pedulla
mpedulla@mtech.edu
Isolation and characterization of bacteriophages infecting Flavobacterium psychrophilum strains isolated from westslope cutthroat trout- Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi May 14, 2025
2:16 p.m.
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Northwestern College Sara Tolsma
stolsma@nwciowa.edu
Bactericidal or bacteriostatic? An experimental approach to distinguishing the two in the context of SEA-GENES cytotoxicity assays. May 12, 2025
12:19 p.m.
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Nova Southeastern University Julie Torruellas Garcia
jg1511@nova.edu
Determining the Optimal MOI, Lysis Time, Post Lysis Growth Rate and Life Cycle of Novel Gordonia rubripertincta Phages May 15, 2025
1:18 p.m.
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Spelman College James Melton
jmelton@spelman.edu
Integrating Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) into the classroom to sequence phage genomes May 16, 2025
1:57 p.m.
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Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa Jesús Ricardo Parra Unda
ricardoparraund@uas.edu.mx
Bacteriophages against multidrug-resistant bacteria May 16, 2025
10 p.m.
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University of Detroit Mercy Jonathan Finkel
finkeljs@udmercy.edu
The Suspiciously Deadly Genes of the Bacteriophages Fred313 May 16, 2025
2:02 p.m.
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University of Ibadan Olubusuyi Moses Adewumi
adewumi1@hotmail.com
University of Ibadan SEA-Phages Team: A Review of 7-Year Impact on the Phage Community May 16, 2025
5:04 p.m.
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University of Louisiana at Monroe Ann Findley
afindley@ulm.edu
Branching Out: Extending SEA PHAGES Activities to Additional Laboratory Course Offerings May 16, 2025
6:29 p.m.
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Isolation and Genomic Characterization of New Phage(s) University of Michigan-Flint Maeve McLaughlin
maevemcl@umich.edu
Characterizing a novel N4-family Caulophage May 6, 2025
11:05 a.m.
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte Ellen Wisner
EWisner@charlotte.edu
Riding the AI Wave: Where does Generative AI fit into SEA research?* May 8, 2025
12:15 p.m.
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University of Ottawa Adam Rudner
arudner@uottawa.ca
Unlocking the Skin Microbiome: Isolating and Characterizing Skin-Sourced Bacteriophages for Phage Therapy May 16, 2025
1:10 p.m.
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University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Sarah J. Swerdlow
sjs308@pitt.edu
SEA-crets to Success: Implementing SEA-PHAGES at a 4-Year College May 15, 2025
12:48 p.m.
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University of South Florida Richard Pollenz
pollenz@usf.edu
Genetic Analysis of Phages Lacking Puataive 1TMD and 2TMD Lysis Genes Reveals that Both are Required for Efficient Host Lysis and that the 1TMD Protein Regulates the Lysis Event May 13, 2025
3:12 p.m.
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Isolation and Genomic Characterization of New Phage(s) University of Southern California Nancy Castro
ncastro@usc.edu
The Characterization of Phage Ichiang Virion Minor Tail Genes (FF subcluster) Mar 14, 2025
11:39 a.m.
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Western Kentucky University Claire Rinehart
claire.rinehart@wku.edu
PECAAN a Phage Evidence Collection And Annotation Network May 12, 2025
4:27 p.m.
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Winthrop University Victoria Frost
frostv@winthrop.edu
Missing Genes: Collaboration Found May 16, 2025
1:32 p.m.
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