SEA-PHAGES Sections
BIOL 1135 (81331) - Fall 2018
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Kristi DeCourcy
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 20
Juniors: 1
Seniors: 19
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 (81332) - Fall 2018
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Kristi DeCourcy
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 22
Freshmen: 2
Sophomores: 2
Juniors: 1
Seniors: 17
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 - 81201
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 21
Juniors: 1
Seniors: 20
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
BIOL 1135 - 81202
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 20
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 6
Seniors: 13
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
BIOL 1135 81404
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Kristi DeCourcy
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 22
Juniors: 3
Seniors: 19
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 81405
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Kristi DeCourcy
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 22
Juniors: 2
Seniors: 20
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 81606
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 17
Freshmen: 1
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 8
Seniors: 7
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 81607
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 19
Freshmen: 1
Sophomores: 3
Juniors: 5
Seniors: 10
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 81668
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 20
Juniors: 8
Seniors: 12
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 81669
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 18
Juniors: 6
Seniors: 12
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 81692
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 20
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 3
Seniors: 16
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 81693
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 20
Juniors: 5
Seniors: 15
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1135 81698
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 17
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 2
Seniors: 14
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
BIOL 1135 81699
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 19
Sophomores: 6
Juniors: 4
Seniors: 9
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
BIOL 1135-88453
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Kristi DeCourcy
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 18
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 2
Seniors: 15
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
Optional open lab time for 2 hours each Friday.
BIOL 1135-88454
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Kristi DeCourcy
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 18
Sophomores: 2
Juniors: 3
Seniors: 13
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
Optional open lab time for 2 hours each Friday.
BIOL 1136 - 11216
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 31
Sophomores: 2
Juniors: 1
Seniors: 28
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1136 - Phage Hunters II
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 36
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 3
Seniors: 32
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
BIOL 1136 11513
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 43
Freshmen: 1
Sophomores: 5
Juniors: 2
Seniors: 35
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1136 11646
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 30
Sophomores: 2
Juniors: 7
Seniors: 21
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1136 11648
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 48
Freshmen: 2
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 15
Seniors: 30
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
BIOL 1136 11678
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 48
Freshmen: 1
Sophomores: 5
Juniors: 8
Seniors: 34
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
BIOL 1136 91994
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 39
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 2
Seniors: 36
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
BIOL 4994
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 4
Juniors: 1
Seniors: 3
Meetings per week: 1
Hours per week: 3.0
Undergraduate research project open to students who already took the in silico Phage Hunter lab. They are responsible for working independently to annotate two phage genomes. The students have regular progress meetings with the instructor and present a paper and poster at the end of the semester.
BIOL 4994
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 2
Seniors: 2
Meetings per week: 1
Hours per week: 3.0
Undergraduate research project open to students who already took the in silico Phage Hunter lab. They are responsible for working independently to annotate a phage genome. The students have regular progress meetings with the instructor and present a paper and poster at the end of the semester.
BIOL 4994 - Research
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 1
Seniors: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
BIOL 4994 - Undergrad Research
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 1
Seniors: 1
Meetings per week: 1
Hours per week: 3.0
Student will be conducting an independent research project to explore bioinformatics methods.
BIOL 4994 - Undergrad Research
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 2
Seniors: 2
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 3.0
Students who have completed Phage Hunters 1 and 2 will work on an independent research project. The primary goal of the research is to separate a mixed phage lysate. After isolating the phage they will verify the results with PCR and re-characterize each phage and update PhagesDB with their results.
Phage Hunters II - BIOL 1136
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 34
Freshmen: 1
Sophomores: 2
Juniors: 3
Seniors: 28
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 2.5
Phage Hunters II - BIOL 1136
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 25
Sophomores: 1
Juniors: 3
Seniors: 21
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
Phage Hunters:BIOL 2984:88709
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Kristi DeCourcy
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 12
Juniors: 2
Seniors: 10
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
There are 4 additional hours per week for students to check results and 2 additional hours for them to carry out experiments outside of the regular lab period.
Phage Hunters:BIOL 2984:88710
Primary Instructor: Stephanie Voshell
Additional Instructor: Kristi DeCourcy
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 13
Sophomores: 2
Juniors: 3
Seniors: 8
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.5
There are 4 additional hours per week for students to check results and 2 additional hours for them to carry out experiments outside of the regular lab period.