SEA-PHAGES Sections
Biol 122
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Microbacterium foliorum
Number of students: 5
Freshmen: 3
Sophomores: 2
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
The htree freshmen are isolating phage. The two sophomores are developing a qpcr assay for cluster EE phage. They will use the assay in an eDNA approach to locate biofilms where EE phage might be found.
Biol 122
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 5
Sophomores: 5
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
Biol 122 99
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Microbacterium foliorum
Number of students: 6
Sophomores: 6
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 2.0
Biol 122 99
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 4
Sophomores: 4
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
Biol 124
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Microbacterium foliorum
Number of students: 18
Freshmen: 18
Meetings per week: 1
Hours per week: 2.0
Biol 124
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 2
Sophomores: 2
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 2.0
We are working to isolate a ,arine Actinomycetes to use as a host for marine phage discovery
Biol 125
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 3
Sophomores: 3
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
Biol 127
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Additional Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 4
Sophomores: 4
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
In addition to annotating a mycobacteriophage genome we cloned and had sequenced portions of a marine phage genome.
Biol 127 11
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 5
Sophomores: 5
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
One student is anootating a phage that infects M. smegmatis, Two students are experimenting with a lysogenic marine phage, two students are discovering more marine phage
Biol 127-11
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 5
Sophomores: 5
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
In addition to annotating mycobacteriophage we are annotating three marine phage genomes. One infects Cellulophaga and two infect Vibrio
Genome Research
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Additional Instructor: Emily Savage
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Microbacterium foliorum
Number of students: 6
Freshmen: 1
Sophomores: 5
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
Genome Research Biol 122
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Additional Instructor: Emily Savage
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Microbacterium foliorum
Number of students: 5
Sophomores: 5
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
Genome Research Biol 122 IS
Primary Instructor: Brian Tarbox
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 3
Sophomores: 3
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0