SEA-PHAGES Sections
BioS 043 Phage Hunting
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 12
Freshmen: 11
Sophomores: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
Also hunting with Microbacterium natoriense.
BioS 118
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 17
Sophomores: 17
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
Section will focus on annotation and in situ work.
BioS 118
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: Other
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 11
Sophomores: 11
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Both in silico and in situ work are in this course
BioS 118
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 16
Sophomores: 15
Juniors: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
In addition to phage genomics and bioinformatics, there are additional microbiology experiments that will be pursued.
BioS 118
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: Other
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 16
Sophomores: 16
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
BioS 118 -060
Primary Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Additional Instructor: Vassie Ware
Type: Other
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 12
Sophomores: 12
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
bioinformatics and situ work
Bios 118 -23, 60 and 61
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 17
Sophomores: 17
Meetings per week: 2
2.5
BioS 118 Phage Genetics Lab
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 10
Sophomores: 10
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.5
Bioinformatics work: Annotation of two genomes from DOGEMS analyses Wet lab experiments also include: 1)PCR to determine which phages correspond to specific contigs in DOGEMS samples 2) preparation of lysogens using phages from in situ phage hunting course last semester 3) immunity testing of phages on newly made lysogens and other lysogens
BioS 118-10
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis, Rhodococcus erythropolis, Arthrobacter sp.
Number of students: 11
Sophomores: 11
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
Note that the first semester of Lehigh's SEA-PHAGES course (in situ: phage hunting) is offered in the spring semester to first year students. The second course (annotation and independent research projects) is offered to sophomores (and others) who continue from the previous spring semester. No sequencing is expected for this section. Instead sequencing will be performed during the summer 2015 after the spring in situ semester. Number of in situ sections for Spring 2015 will be determined by January 2015.
BioS 396 Adv Phage Res Lab
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: Other
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 11
Sophomores: 7
Seniors: 4
Meetings per week: 3
Hours per week: 10.0
BioS 43
Primary Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Additional Instructor: Vassie Ware
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 18
Freshmen: 18
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 3.0
BioS 43 Phage Hunting Lab
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 16
Freshmen: 16
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
BioS 43-010
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 10
Freshmen: 10
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.5
BioS 43-011
Primary Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 12
Freshmen: 12
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
BioS 43-011
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 9
Freshmen: 9
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.5
BIOS-043-060, 061-SP16-Phage H
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 24
Freshmen: 23
Sophomores: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
Bios043-60
Primary Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 10
Freshmen: 10
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
BioS118 Phage Genetics
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 16
Sophomores: 16
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
Phage Genetics BioS 118
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 6
Sophomores: 6
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
Two students in this section did not take the hunting portion so they will hunt in natoriense.
Phage Genetics Lab/BioS 118
Primary Instructor: Vassie Ware
Additional Instructor: Margaret Kenna
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 10
Sophomores: 10
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
Lehigh does phage hunting in the spring semester. The spring phage hunting course substitutes for the first core laboratory course required in the biology curriculum, taken by freshmen. The fall semester course is dedicated to phage genomics and additional microbiology laboratory experiments. This course substitutes for the second required core lab course in the biology curriculum. Sophomores are typically enrolled in this course.